[at-l] What ever happened to ...

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

At 11:43 PM 8/19/2004 -0400, Leslie Booher wrote:
>Strike-anywhere matches have been outlawed for years.  You can no longer 
>strike them on your zipper teeth, on the sole of your shoe, against blue 
>jeans, etc.  They're now made of a chemical that works only with the 
>complementing chemical in the scratch board attached to the side of the 
>box.  What a pain!  You always strike the match in the middle of the 
>scratch area.  Before you're done with the matches in the box, the scratch 
>area has the gritty stuff only on the edges, which don't have enough 
>striking area in one spot to get the match going.  Is this more than you 
>wanted to know, or what?  anklebear

Sources of Strike anywhere matches:
http://www.emergencyresources.com/er_p11.html
http://www.riverjunction.com/catalog/saloon/matches.html
http://www.nmcnews.org/matches.html
You can also find them on Ebay. Just search on "strike anywhere matches".

Google finds (almost) everything.