Talk:1139: Rubber and Glue
Revision as of 16:07, 26 November 2012 by 131.251.254.81 (talk)
I am not a native speaker, but after some research, I found that rubber/glue refers to the rhyme "I am rubber, you are glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you." If that's true, the current explanation that the topos is meant "to imply that insults of another person are an indication of their own insecurity and weakness" is just plain wrong. BKA (talk) 15:51, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
The in-joke here is presumably that CRC stands (or stood?) for the Chemical Rubber Company, and the handbook - found in many a physics and chemistry lab - is often referred to as the "Rubber Bible". 131.251.254.81 16:07, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
