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Ive smoked weed for fuckin ages now, and ive never been able to work out why the roach on a spliff is called a roach... Anybody got the answer?

Peace

maybe cause it kinda looks like one????

uggghhh???!

Since when has a rolled up peice of card looked like a cockroach? i'd already thought that myself and then thought, naaa it can't be...

Peace

good question.

On a related note, I want to ask something similar:

I've never been able to figure out why the female sexual organ is called a "pussy". How does it look like a pussy?

The Story of the HOLY Nits

A few years back hundreds of Nit figures turned up in the Chicago area. This was a great find except that every single one of them had a pin hole in it somewhere. This was a very odd sort of damage because the pinholes seemed to have been carefully placed in the figure. The reason for this, I am told, is due to a dope-smoking hippie who created "Roach Clips" out of the Nit figures.

Now I am not a person who uses drugs so I had to find out what the heck a Roach Clip was for myself. Turns out that a "Roach" is a term for a marijuana cigarette or "Joint". A Roach Clip is used to hold the "Joint" so that you don't burn your fingers trying to smoke the very final part of the marijuana in the cigarette. A Roach Clip is usually some decorated item which has an alligator clip, a piece of electrical hardware, attached to it. So anyway what I was told is that all of these hundreds of Nits were converted into "Roach Clips" by some dope-smoking hippie by carefully melting the alligator clip into the figure. (It would seem that the "Munchies" and Cracker Jack go together.)

My first set of Nits that I acquired in 1993 was comprised of 16 of the 20 figures with these Roach Clip holes in them. The holed Nits were and are fairly inexpensive compared to a NM condition figure. Some of the holed Nits look just perfect when viewed from the front because the hole is in the backside of the figure. Since the holes do not go all the way through the figure at least one side looks fine and undamaged. If your looking for a display set of Nits this might be the best way to go since they tend to be very cheep and if you don't turn them around it doesn't look like anything is the matter.

There is one particular anomaly about the holy Nits that I can only hypothesize an answer for. Holed Nits can be found in the entire standard Cracker Jack colors but you can only get 19 of them from the set of 20. Seems that Laugh-Nit cannot be found in a "holed" variety. The only reason I can come up with for this variance is maybe because Laugh-Nit is such a thin figure that you could not get an alligator clip to stay in the plastic.



And that, ladies and gentleman, is why

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Originally posted by tu_face Ive smoked weed for fuckin ages now, and ive never been able to work out why the roach on a spliff is called a roach... Anybody got the answer? Peace

Hmmm dont know but im looking for some roach now for this skunky joint

i'm assuming its called a roach cause its small, like a cockroach. maybe?

i dunno. who cares.

Don't Smoke the roach people!!


i always smoked it, saved it, put it together with a couple other roaches and made a brand new joint.


if you care about your health somewhat you won't smoke rocahes anymore.

it's the most uinhealthy part of the joint.

i read it in a magazine from my gf's store. i think it's called cannabis health.

an informational magazine in canada

can anyone back this up?

i cant back it up but it is true that its the worst part cos all the resin has collected a the bottom and on the roach.. plus its harsh as fuck

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Originally posted by BTG i'm assuming its called a roach cause its small, like a cockroach. maybe? i dunno. who cares.

in FL we got some big ass roaches

yeah down south our roaches are big and they fly.

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Originally posted by mos man i cant back it up but it is true that its the worst part cos all the resin has collected a the bottom and on the roach.. plus its harsh as fuck

well.. yes and no. it has all the resin, and is thus the most unhealthy for you. but, if you are worried about the resin, then you shouldn't be smoking it anyway!

basically, what i mean is smoking a roach (depending on it's size) will get you about 1/4 to 1/8 as stoned as smoking the whole joint would. it also has 1/4 to 1/8 the resin. there is no difference, you'd be just as unhealthy smoking the same amount of resin all in joints and throwing away the roaches.

and if you don't believe me, you can mail them to me.

If you wanna be healthy, then don't smoke weed...if you wanna get real fucked up, then smoke the roach. Best thing to do is take the roach, unwrap it and put it into a bowl or bong...maybe put the paper in there too. Hey, gotta make the most of it.

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Originally posted by JohnSmith well.. yes and no. it has all the resin, and is thus the most unhealthy for you. but, if you are worried about the resin, then you shouldn't be smoking it anyway! basically, what i mean is smoking a roach (depending on it's size) will get you about 1/4 to 1/8 as stoned as smoking the whole joint would. it also has 1/4 to 1/8 the resin. there is no difference, you'd be just as unhealthy smoking the same amount of resin all in joints and throwing away the roaches. and if you don't believe me, you can mail them to me.

umm dude i dont smoke the cardboard roach, i leave at least half a cm of smokeable tobbacco/weed.. what i meant was the second half of the joint is gonna be worse for you than the second cos all the papers go brown from the increase of collected resin, i didnt mean the roach itself

smoking a roach would just be minging

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