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Touchpaper or touch-paper is a slow-burning paper fuse treated with solution of potassium nitrate (or "saltpetre") used for lighting flammable or explosive devices such as fireworks, it is often blue, and is associated with the phrase "Light the blue touchpaper and retire immediately." Touchpaper may also refer to:
At about the same time, Thatcher's press secretary Bernard Ingham briefed journalists that Heseltine had "lit the blue touch paper then retired", although he denied having demanded that Heseltine "put up [a] or shut up"; Heseltine was also taunted along similar lines by the pro-Conservative press, including the Daily Mail and The Times ...
Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, Trompe l'oeil with letters and a roll of blue paper. Blue paper (known in Italian as carta azzurra, carta cerulea, and carta turchina) has often been used as a support for drawings and prints by artists. [1] With its inherent middle tone, blue paper is a particularly effective material for rendering the effects ...
It is set in the office of a Conservative magazine called "The Blue Touch Paper" owned by South African media mogul Lord Malan (Robert Hardy).To revive its failing sales, Malan hires a new editor Keith (Tony Gardner), who was previously the "token Tory" at the left-wing Guardian (and is thus nicknamed "Toynbee", after Polly Toynbee from the Guardian, by Malan).
It laid the foundation, so to speak, for one of the biggest second acts in pop history. ... The Tube, that was like a light in the blue touch paper. It just went off after that. People's ...
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Blu Tack is a reusable putty-like pressure-sensitive adhesive produced by Bostik, commonly used to attach lightweight objects (such as posters or sheets of paper) to walls, doors or other dry surfaces. Traditionally blue, it is also available in other colours. Generic versions of the product are also available from other manufacturers.
"Three girls come up to me and they go, 'Oh my God. You look exactly like the guy on our books,' " Fabio told PEOPLE