# virgin rubber!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-rubber/112217>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [June 3, 2002, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-rubber/112217 "2002-06-03T19:36:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-rubber/112217/1 "2002-06-03T19:36:18Z")

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In Cecil’s recent column on WW2 scrap drives, at [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020531.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020531.html), he writes:

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> Rubber’s complex chemistry and the variety of formulations in use made recycling slow and expensive and the resultant material inferior to virgin rubber.

Huh huh, you said “virgin rubber”! Huh huh, huh huh!

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-rubber/112217/2 "2002-06-04T03:37:53Z")

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I see they’re tinkering with Tracer’s medications again

😃

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**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-rubber/112217/3 "2002-06-05T01:14:01Z")

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Don’t anybody mention olive oil! 😉

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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-rubber/112217/4 "2002-06-05T15:36:14Z")

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Or wool.

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2002, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-rubber/112217/5 "2002-06-08T23:11:41Z")

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Dang! I was hoping this was a thread about rubbing virgins for luck. Oh, well…

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-rubber/112217/6 "2002-06-09T03:55:42Z")

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I thought it was about that shop-worn little foil packet in the wallets of so many 17 year old would-be studmuffins. 😛

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**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-rubber/112217/7 "2002-06-09T19:10:09Z")

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All you filthy minded people.

How did you know it wasn’t about somebody playing bridge for the first time?