On 21 Jun 2006 22:20:34 -0700, -L. wrote:

>
> sf wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:10:36 -0400, T wrote:
> >
> > > Oh yeah now I recall. It was LSD soaked into paper and allowed to dry.
> > > Hence, blotter.
> >
> > .... so they're like stamps only bigger?
>
> No, they're teeny. About a quarter-inch square, with perforated edges.
> They are made in an entire sheet, and then individual "hits" are torn
> from the sheet. In the 70's and 80's they had different things printed
> on them - cartoon characters, unicorns, stars and moon, etc. My
> favorites where the Goofy blotters available in the midwest/Chicago
> circa 1978-79. You sucked on them and swallowed them, or just
> swallowed them. People claimed that if you sucked on them first, you'd
> get a better buzz.
>
> Here's a pic of one on someone's tongue to give you size comparisons:
> http://growabrain.typepad.com/growab...lashback_.html
>
> Google "Blotter Acid" in images and you can see the sheets, etc.

Never having been in the acid scene, I suppose that's what was
referred to as "stamps" by those in the know around here during those
times.

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