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  • There were the melamine dishes, often used for camping and very similar in denseness to the bakelite of old.

    The Plastics Revolution « Colleen Anderson 2010

  • Later came the fully synthetic, not found anywhere in nature, plastics such as epoxy and bakelite.

    The Plastics Revolution « Colleen Anderson 2010

  • Three dudes, flappin 'gums at a bakelite table, like our Founders intended.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • It was 1947, the South Africans were touring; I was just home for the school holidays and after lunch on 26 July Wisden remains invaluable for spot-on logging of one's whole life, relayed live from Headingley came a distinctive voice out of the old bakelite wireless set in the corner of our West Country kitchen.

    The day I was bowled over by John Arlott's soupy-thick vowels | Frank Keating 2011

  • I have one bakelite button that is put on like a buttoniere and has a screw back.

    The Plastics Revolution « Colleen Anderson 2010

  • Three dudes, flappin 'gums at a bakelite table, like our Founders intended.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • (M Sarki, I plan to read your comment here) But Cooper and Cindy I just have to say that listening to WLS in Chicago when I got my paper-route-yard-sale-bakelite-fifty-cent-radio, years ago, “War” was one of the songs that was played in my first days listening to it.

    What’s your favorite | clusterflock 2009

  • The light fittings in their private quarters have changed little over the decades and are said to give off the faint smell of warm bakelite when they have been left on too long.

    Elizabeth: The Zirconian Age 2010

  • The light fittings in their private quarters have changed little over the decades and are said to give off the faint smell of warm bakelite when they have been left on too long.

    Elizabeth: The Zirconian Age 2010

  • Three dudes, flappin' gums at a bakelite table, like our Founders intended.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads The Huffington Post News Team 2010

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  • Bakelite is 100 years old today (7/13/2007)! The claim is that bakelite was the first "true" synthetic plastic. Dunno.

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11959165

    July 14, 2007

  • Love that Bakelite. :-)

    July 14, 2007

  • i wonder what it tastes like

    i'm gonna go lick the pot handles in my kitchen

    they taste like concrete and baby powder

    yuck

    October 29, 2008