From Silky:
Could it be because at first "Scotch" sticky tape had adhesive only on the edges and the Scots have a reputation for being mean?
Who’d dare to tell anything after prominent Silky’s explanations?
No one here on the face of the earth.
However if I might be so bold as to add something, that’s just to give some more details about the Scot who created the Scotch.
The Scotch was born in the State of Minnesota in 1925 in a factory named Mad Magic Mastic.
The CEO of Mad Magic Mastic Co was mad with hard work.
He thought his workers were so much talkative at work that their productivity was dragging behind.
The first step in reforming the standard procedures going on at his company was to abbreviate its name in MMM and to manufacture a magic mastic to plug the mouth of talkative workers.
The second step occured in 1925 when Richard G. Drew, a young lab assistant, invented masking tape – an innovative step toward diversification of stopping talking at work and the first of many Scotch® Pressure-Sensitive Tapes.
The workers got inclined to prefer their mouth to be stuck with a tape sounding as their favourite whiskey than to be fulfilled with a tasteful mastic.
That’s why at the end of the 8-hours silent working day the MMM workers come out of the factory singing:
A duck and a drake,
And a halfpenny cake,
With a penny to pay
Our work of the day.
A hop and a scotch
Is another notch,
Slitherum, slatherum,
My whiskey right away.
P.S. Mind you. Use Scotch sticky tape everywhere but in Scotland. Wiki says that`Scotch' is in disfavor with Scottish people and is used primarily outside Scotland except in such frozen phrases as `Scotch broth' or `Scotch whiskey' or `Scotch plaid'.
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11 Jan. 2007