So a team of scientists thought, what about sticky stuff?
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Covering his new place in sticky stuff didn't sit well with him.
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Plus, they had a more developed organ for secreting sticky stuff into the little hairs.
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As is the case with many adhesives, the biological world inspired this super-sticky stuff.
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In Amsterdam, the streets are littered with more than 3 million pounds of the sticky stuff.
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She notices the dead man, complains about the "sticky stuff on her hair," falls down, coughs up blood, and dies.
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We all used sticky stuff (was a real spray + was hard to wash out) and Aquanet!" and "I remember those hairstyles.
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As someone who suffers from an irrational fear of being covered in sticky stuff (long story), this scores big for me.
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Suited up in coveralls, a mask, and goggles, you trim buds for legal growers, removing the sticky stuff from stems and leaves.
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It's all more Hostess than homemade, but, in a country of regional cuisines, it is also the sugary, sticky stuff that binds.
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The sticky stuff directly accounts for only 215% of GDP, but for 23% of government revenue and almost all of Nigeria's foreign earnings.
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Tar sands oil is a mixture of clay, water, and a thick, heavy oil called bitumen, the sticky stuff that binds asphalt together.
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Built for global scale, they get on with the expansionist goal of maximizing clicks and views by serving more of the same sticky stuff.
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But if you have any visible dirt or grime or sticky stuff on your hands, the sanitizer probably won't remove it, which is not ideal.
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Sticky stuff sticking to surfaces is a fact of life: Plates and utensils get crusted with food and someone has to wash them each and every time.
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Strawberry- and bubblegum-scented lip gloss had its big moment is the '80s when brands thought girls bought the sticky stuff to get boys to kiss them.
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And it's known for making quick work of sticky stuff like sunblock and waterproof makeup, without resorting to harsh cleaning agents or requiring too much skin-irritating scrubbing.
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Stickum = selfish ... so says Charles Barkley who says Dwight Howard needs to ditch to the sticky stuff 'cause it screws up the ball for everyone else on the court.
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But even sticky stuff can pose a problem, since chemical adhesives might not work in the vacuum and temperature of space, according to a paper published yesterday in Science Robotics.
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Jupiter and Saturn planets will clash on March 23; with that, the fun and flirty things in your life will collide with the deep and sticky stuff you've been working on.
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Similar evidence of the sticky stuff has been noted in grave sites in the surrounding region, but this use of The Good Plant as a shroud is the first its kind to be discovered.
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The patterning of the upholstery is expressed in relief, sharp and textured beneath my hands and legs, and upon closer inspection, the frame of the armchair looks like clay, the fudgy sticky stuff I used to play with as a child.
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Back in 2012, Douglas Fudge's lab at the University of Guelph (he just moved to Chapman University this month) successfully harvested the sticky stuff from the fish, dissolved it in liquid, and then "spun" it into a strong-yet-stretchy thread, much like spinning silk.
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But neither the press nor the politically powerful stand to gain much by grappling with those problems on TV, and they are tacitly willing to remain locked in a vicious cycle as long as it means they don't have to deal with the really sticky stuff.
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An Oregon State University scientist on Thursday described a remarkable piece of amber -fossilized tree sap - containing a mushroom, a strand of mammalian hair and the recently shed exoskeleton of an insect that got away from the oozing sticky stuff in the nick of time, escaping eternal entombment.
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Michael Gerber said Duct Tape Marketing is "just like its namesake – Duct Tape – it's good, incredibly smart, amazingly practical, and immensely sticky stuff." Duct Tape Marketing Revised & Updated was published in 2011.
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Similar products of various colours are made by many manufacturers, including Faber-Castell's "Tack-it", Henkel's "Fun-Tak", UHU's "Poster Putty" and "Sticky Tack","Gummy Sticker" Pritt's "Sticky Stuff", Bostik's "Prestik" and Elmer's "Poster Tack". Plasti-Tak by Brooks Manufacturing Company appears to pre-date Blu Tack, with a trademark registration in 1964. Versions of the product are also sold under the generic names "adhesive putty" and "mounting putty". The generic trademark or common name for mounting putty varies by region.
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The word chicle comes from the Nahuatl word for the gum, , which can be translated as "sticky stuff". Alternatively, it may have come from the Mayan word .Mexicolore article on chicle Chicle was well known to the Aztecs and to the Maya, and early European settlers prized it for its subtle flavor and high sugar content. The word used in the Americas and Spain to refer to chewing gum, being a common term for it in Spanish and being the Portuguese term (both in Brazil and in parts of Portugal; other areas also use the term ).
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The Chiclets name is derived from the Mexican Spanish word "chicle", derived from the Aztec Nahuatl word "chictli/tzictli", meaning "sticky stuff", and referring to a pre-Columbian chewing gum found throughout Mesoamerica. This pre-Columbian chewing gum was tapped as a sap from various trees, but especially from the sapodilla tree. Chiclets are essentially the same as the indigenous chicle, with the innovation of a hard sugar coating offered in various flavors and colors. The original flavor was peppermint, and assorted fruit flavors were available in Algeria, Colombia, Argentina, Egypt, Canada, India, Iraq, Lebanon, Mexico, Syria, Dominican Republic, United Kingdom, Portugal, and parts of the Americas.
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