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Duct Tape Goes Minature
metal_llama writes "There is a story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about a man, Christopher Blummel, who "has a vision for a better world - one where every man would carry in his wallet a small cellophane packet containing a product that can come in handy in an emergency. Duct tape." This is exactly what I've always wanted: an ever-handy supply of duct tape."
In their duct tape wallet?
In Soviet Russia, ducts tape you!
Is it just me, or did this guy just watch an episode of Macguyver and go "Hey..."
That being said i'll bet Richard Dean Anderson's ex-mullet is turning in his grave.
Cogito Eggo Sum, I think therefore I'm a waffle
My old childhood hero MacGyver has defeated entire armies with just a swiss army knife and duct tape.
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
I have a vision for every man, women, and child to carry around their own personal tin foil hate to ensure protection from alien mind control rays... we must defend ourselves!
"Duct tape is a lot like the Force... It has a dark side, it has a light side, and it binds the galaxy together...."
I can't remember who said that but man is it funny.
-Skrud
...is there really a need for this? I keep a roll or two of the regular stuff in my car in case something falls off and I need to re-affix it, but do I really need to carry this stuff around like a condom? (obligatory geek remark: not that most of slashdot's readers need condoms, mind you, but still.)
Rushing toward Entropy one iteration at a time.
If you can't duck it, f..k it.
A year or so ago we got a new clothes dryer and my wife gave me the job of connecting it to the existing ducting that exhausts the dryer air from the laundry to the outside world.
:-)
I sat down for a while and contemplated how I might make up an adapter flange to join the old ducting (4 inch diameter) to the new dryer (3.5" diameter).
After several hours walking around the workshop checking to see if I had enough metal and gas to weld up a flange, I spied the obvious -- my roll of duct tape.
Suffice to say that's the first (and it'll probably be the last) time I've ever used duct tape for taping up ducting.
Most of the time I use it to hold the gaping wounds together so they don't bleed to bad after a day in teh workshop. (Why are so many tools so sharp?
But it can be a little hard (no pun intended) to get off (again, no pun intented). Still, in an emergency it's better to be safe than to either get a disease or breed.
Stupid people make stupid things profitable.
Red Green would be proud.
They forgot, however, to include in the instruction manual that it should NOT be used in conjunction with transmission fluid. You need the optional "baling wire add-on kit" to pull that off.
"Giving money and power to governments is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke
they can at least find you handy. Right? Or did I fall asleep while watching the Red Green show, and am now dreaming of the Red Green /. show? Quick, call Rothschild's Sewage and Septic Sucking Service, and get rid of all the trolls!
*GRIN*
Lemon curry?
So if the terrorists attack when you're on the go, you can simply duct-tape yourself into the nearest phone booth.
-a
His wallet also comes with a plastic tent, opens his wallet, pushes a button and *whala*, an inflatable plastic tent (with it's own air supply) - Go Go Gadget-Biological safe egloo
Analytic & algebraic topology of locally Euclidean meterization of infinitely differentiable Riemmanian manifold
Duct tape and WD-40.
If it does move, but it shouldn't, you use the duct tape. If it doesn't move, but it should, you use the WD-40.
What's this guy going to come up with next, a miniature spray can of WD-40?
Sorry!
Litigious bastards
I thought they just eat some donuts, laugh with eachother how stupid it is (if they actually read it, anyway), stamp approval, and collect the application fee?
for fuck's sakes man, just bring some bandaids if you need tape - at least you can use them on yourself, aside from posting presentations on the wall.
urgh. products designed by sales people. sigh...
My life in the land of the rising sun.
what's so suprising?
This is a pretty interesting story (what geek doesn't splooge for duct tape?)
This is new news... I haven't even read it before
The summary was pretty well written without typos
People seem to be reading the article before posting... i'ts just another day at slashdot
wait...
WTPOUAWYHTTOTWPA
What's the point of using acronyms when you have to type out the whole phrase anyways?
when your bi*** is talking so much, you just take the duct tape out of your pocket and close her mouth!
use it at night coz you know she snores!!
ok,I got to go ; wife wants me to mow the lawn.Prevents std's, pregnancy, and eliminates unwanted pubic hair!!!
I don't know about the rest of you, but with respect to Douglas Adams, I for one plan on keeping mine next to my towel :)
Understanding is a three edged sword. - Ambassador Kosh Naranek, Babylon 5
You never know when you need to gag someone.
I mean some people, just talk and talk and they can't shut up. It's not like everybody has the time and patience to listen to someone just rumble about something or other of no interest. It's even worse when they start detouring from the subject of the whole thing like some 1950's valvule computer with one too many holes in the punch-card, i mean those things must have been a pain to program and all. Not to mention they were big. And hot. Which reminds me of that time i is was driving my van on the highway and *shraaap* *oooo* *oooo*
I can imagine the slashdotter who says "wait a minute, I've got this duct tape"...
...is that the geeks carry duck/duct tape in their wallets, and the swingers carry a condom.
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It was stretchy, self-sealing, could form sterility-preserving seals. It was acid/base/alcohol/corrosive-resistant, we used it to wrap bottletops before placing them in the autoclave, and god knows how hot it got in there. Heck, we used it to seal unfinished beers.
I actually took to carrying around a few sheets of it with me everywhere, and I undoubtedly found uses for them. I took a few sheets with me to summer camp, and on the night of the big bonfire, the bigger (and less geeky) children swooped down upon the field and managed to snag all of the long sticks for marshmallow-toasting. After 20 minutes of scavenging, all I could find were a small pile of 6-inch-ish twigs. Parafilm to the rescue! I bound these twigs together into a trifurcated, flame-resistant monstrosity that noone could argue with. Sadly enough, my popularity was not much improved by this feat.
I carry about a 25 cm of duct tape in my wallet, wrapped around my credit card. Besides being useful in the case of an automotive hose burst or embarrassing pants-split (on the inside of the fabric, dum dum), it also discourages me from using my credit card. Which is a good thing.
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