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A terror-scare run on duct tape and plastic:

The liberal-left have been right and wrong all along. We are moving into a dystopian future, only its not 1984. Its Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 13 February 2003 17:52 (twenty-three years ago)

At last!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going to duct tape my balls to my leg.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 13 February 2003 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Its Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

I've been saying this! For the last year and a half, I haven't been able to watch it, but the thing is, I don't think I need to watch it any more. I do need to watch Lost in La Mancha at some point, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 February 2003 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, Brazil is catching up to us.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 13 February 2003 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't understand we just don't make some sort of plastic and duct tape shield that covers the whole US

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 13 February 2003 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

insert "why"

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 13 February 2003 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

As long as Baron Munchausen doesn't catch up on me, I'm happy.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 17:59 (twenty-three years ago)

What, you don't want to go visit the moon? Then again, dealing with a huge Robin Williams each day could be a bit distressing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 February 2003 18:00 (twenty-three years ago)

crazy yanks stock up on duct tape:
http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/today/news_e3b48c24a44990060020.html

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 13 February 2003 18:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is everyone putting up Sugababes posters, or have other people found another use for it?

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 13 February 2003 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Insulation.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Clearly Sarah Millionaire has a leg up on all of us.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 13 February 2003 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

She has three legs.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 13 February 2003 18:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Memo to other countries from me, the undisputable representative of America:
Yes, some of us have stocked up on duct tape and plastic, but these people are our idiots. We keep them around to make the rest of us fell better about ourselves. Plus, they are perfect consumers.
After watching Top of the Pops, I suspect y'all have your fair share as well.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 13 February 2003 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I here Sarah Whatmore bests even her, Kerry.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 13 February 2003 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah Brazil is cathing up on us. which is fine, just as long as that god awful david bryne song remains out of the equation.

― kephm, Thursday, 13 February 2003 21:43 (twenty-three years ago)

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/tt/2003/tt030213.gif

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 13 February 2003 21:49 (twenty-three years ago)

So almost every week on "A Prarie Home Companion," Garrison Keillor features an advertisement for (among other things, like the ketchup advisory board) the Duct Tape Council. I wonder just what it is that the ad will say this week.

And I'm already well-stocked with duct tape, because a local hardware store went out of business a couple of years ago and I bought 20 rolls of duct tape for $.20 each, because, hey, it was a good deal and one can never have too much duct tape, right? (And it doesn't have a shelf-life, does it?)

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 13 February 2003 21:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I hear they've started to phase out the old-fashioned duct tape.
In the future, nothing will be compatible with it.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 13 February 2003 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

*snarfing and choking* Thanks, I really needed that.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 13 February 2003 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

It doesn't help that the government is out there recommending this nonsense: http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/

Want to be safe? Wear your seat belt. There you just lowered your risk of injury and death about 1000% over what any of these things could do. People really do have ridiculous ideas about what makes them safe and what they're in danger from.

― Dave Beckhouse (Dave Beckhouse), Friday, 14 February 2003 01:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I bet Red Green is laughing now with his movie Duct Tape Forever.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 14 February 2003 01:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Given that anyone who doesn't already have duct tape in their home can't be too bright, isn't it possible that they'll have trouble operating it in the panic of Armageddon?

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 14 February 2003 11:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Shit, I've eaten all our duct tape.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 14 February 2003 11:24 (twenty-three years ago)

why has everyone stopped calling it duck tape?

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 14 February 2003 11:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Because it's always been duct tape. But for years my little sister used Wind Shield when she meant wind chill, so not only intellectuals do this sort of thing.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 14 February 2003 11:34 (twenty-three years ago)

last time it came up half the posters said "duck tape": this time none of them did — so again i ask

WHAT HAS BUSH DONE WITH HALF OUR POSTERS??

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 14 February 2003 11:38 (twenty-three years ago)

(Always called it gaffer tape myself, and my skin crawls when I see it written "gaffa tape".)

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 14 February 2003 11:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the war may be sponsored by my ex-employers, or at least the current panic buying is anyway.

― chris (chris), Friday, 14 February 2003 11:42 (twenty-three years ago)

gaffa-hataz reprazent!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 14 February 2003 11:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Its always been gaffer tape round here.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 14 February 2003 12:12 (twenty-three years ago)

last time it came up half the posters said "duck tape": this time none of them did

Because you stopped calling yourself duck s. Also B&Q now only sell own-brand stuff. They suck.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Is this the type of tape that always rips in half or am I thinking of another kind of tape?

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

last time it came up half the posters said "duck tape": this time none of them did — so again i ask
WHAT HAS BUSH DONE WITH HALF OUR POSTERS??

I was going to ask the same thing (poss. without pinning the blame of Bush). If I can dig out the relevant thread I shall show you why suzy is wrong.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

(but of course this will be tricky with bad Graham's ban on searching 4-letter words)

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

i think its less than 4 n

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Dialling your own number to locate your mobile phone: Classic oder Dud?

― Graham (graham), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

How do we feel about masking tape? (I hope this isn't seen as thread hijacking)

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks Graham and Gareth - the relevant link from that was Duct vs. Duck .

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

ho ho - suzy has succumbed to English middle class urban mythology.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

How do we feel about masking tape?

Oh, masking tape was the tape I was thinking of, it's horrible. Duct tape is okay but then I've never really had much use for it.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Or is it masquing tape?

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:14 (twenty-three years ago)

That mobile thread is kind of perfect, btw.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:14 (twenty-three years ago)

How so?

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

It's pretty.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

That is everything.

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

masking tape is horrible? crazy-talk.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Did I really put oder? Yuck.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

What if nobody actually needs to use the plastic wrap and duct tape because the war is cancelled/nobody turned up for it? What can be done with all that unwanted wrap and tape? Waste not, want not!

1) Don't like dust or wear to you sofa ? Cover all your furniture in plastic wrap, lengthens life of furniture as not only protects against stains but makes guests feel uncomfortable and encourages quick exits

2) Do you have unsightly accidentally-severed limbs messing up your house? Simply wrap them in clear plastic and bury

3) Tired of guest wandering off into rooms in your house without your permission? Use duct tape to restrain them to the walls or ceiling

4) Sick of Gran's stories about the War, use duct tape to shut her up, can also be used on children and certain pets

5) Want to feel like a movie star? Replace glass in your windows with plastic, then throw friends or family through them without fear of injury

6) Need a new room in you house? Attach plastic sheeting to tall wooden fence posts and colour with black permanent markers. Remember to leave a clear space for the windows.

7) Want to be more eco-friendly? Attach plastic sheeting to a large wooden A-frame and place through the sunroof of your car, then wait for a strong wind

8) Afraid of nuclear missile attack? Find four very long posts and attach corners of plastic sheeting to each, when a missile tries to land on your house erect above to deflect projectile

9) Afraid of unwanted children? Wrap up your SO during sexual contact to protect against pregnancy

10) Need to trap a tiger? Dig a large pit, cover it plastic sheeting and draw grass on it, tiger comes to eat the grass and falls through into the pit, then use duct tape to restrain him

― C J (C J), Friday, 14 February 2003 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I have just got to sing the praises of duct tape.Holds all sorts together.Vehicles,furniture,radio stations.All have benefited from duct tape in my personal experience!Never tried restraining tigers with it,though.

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Friday, 14 February 2003 22:30 (twenty-three years ago)

if duck tape really =ed gaffer tape then every American home would presently be primed to accomodate lighting technicians and cameramen at the drop of a hat! i.e. the govt is finally coming around to giving us all our own reality show!! this is an astonishing new domestic capability. imagine the psy-ops we could inflict via satellite with our horrid little kitchens and pompous moralizing.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 14 February 2003 22:52 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.octanecreative.com/ducttape/DHS/index.html

― Curtis Stephens, Friday, 14 February 2003 23:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I do need to watch Lost in La Mancha at some point, though.

Ned, I saw it in class. Fascinating and disheartening too, and the Johnny Depp bits were funny

― Vic (Vic), Saturday, 15 February 2003 06:12 (twenty-three years ago)

And, possibly [Jim and Tim, the Duct Tape Guys'] best suggestion for using duct tape to secure our homeland: A strip of duct tape over some key mouths in Washington.

I heartily endorse this Web page and its message.

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 15 February 2003 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.cnn.com;2003;[email protected]/brush.html

― duane, Saturday, 15 February 2003 22:12 (twenty-three years ago)

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