>>>Getting the cellophane off a new DVD (or indeed a greetings card, without mangling the card) kills me! I usually have to take a knife to it. I think the DVD may have a wee strip to pull but I'm buggered if I can find it most the time.
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>>Among the pencils on my desk there's always a tiny box cutter, which usually serves to open envelopes... and plastic traps of that kind. In case of DVD cases, I have concluded that the most popular movie on that medium, over the last dozen years on this market, is "Security Device Enclosed". It sells like mad.
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>But if you get it with the security device still in chances are it hasn't been sold - knicked :-)
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>I use a hairdresser's tail comb for envelopes - a lot less dangerous than a box cutter (what we call a "Stanley Knife" - orig. made by the company "Stanley")

Do hairdressers in the UK comb your tail?