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Michael Woudenberg's avatar

Duck duck don't be a goose. These little twists and turns in history are a lot of fun.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

I was interested enough in the story before I knew that Dutch word!

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Michael Woudenberg's avatar

The Dutch are awesome!

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Frank Mariani's avatar

I have upgraded to Gorilla Tape when I need a seriously sticky solution . Gorilla tape will pull your skin off, I learned the hard way!

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Similar to Gorilla Glue, right? Strong stuff!

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David Perlmutter's avatar

I cannot think of duck/t tape without thinking of the Canadian comic character Red Green, who considered it the solution to every major problem....

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Wow, I never knew about this show.

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David Perlmutter's avatar

It was VERY popular in Canada and it even made waves in some parts of the United States. Some very well-known Canadian actors played recurring characters.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

I knew about Kids in the Hall and You Can't Do That on TV, though we didn't have HBO so I didn't get to see the former. My education about Canadian TV was through a very tiny window for the first couple decades of my life.

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Rabbi Eli L. Garfinkel's avatar

This is great…can’t wait to sound smarter than I actually am!

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Neural Foundry's avatar

Love how this shows we've been confidently wrong for decades! The conection to modern HVAC work is kinda brilliant though, since it touches on a bigger issue - most ppl don't realize that even "household" repairs benefit from teh right tools, not just what worked in WW2. I remember trying to fix ductwork in my first apartment with regular duct tape and wondering why it kept failing every few months, and this explains a lot.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Good point about needing the right tools for the job, even (especially?) at home. So true.

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Sharon Radice Pearson's avatar

It took a minute to see the spelling difference. But I knew someone somewhere in my distant past who kept everything together with duct or duck tape. He thought it was the remedy for anything in disarray.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

It really is shockingly useful if it's all you have.

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Daniel Nest's avatar

Man, I can't believe some people don't know this.

There's even a famous jingle:

Duck Tape! Whoooo oooh

Every day they're out there making

Duck Tape!

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Andrew Smith's avatar

You're thinking of the TV show "Duct Tape" from the late 80s. This is called the Streisand Effect. All three of these sentences are lies.

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Duck Tape comes in camo; that’s what the cool kids wear. My favorite winter jacket is patched with black Duck Tape where a zipper broke - you can’t tell or so I tell myself.

On of my first trips in the Amazing Spider Van, a panel on the side started flopping around; couldn’t drive home. So we biked 20 miles to the nearest hardware store where they surprisingly had a full selection and the tape fit perfectly on the top of my water bottle. That roll is now essential ASV gear.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Wow, you biked 20 miles and then back in order to get a car to go somewhere? That sounds like a very long day!

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

That was a great day - long ride for me, longest ride for Chaos Monkey, the tape added an element of DIY-satisfaction and then for the meatball on the top, a plate piled high with spaghetti in town. Slept well that night.

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Rudy Fischmann's avatar

But is it good for ducks? Like is it chock full of the nutrients ducks need to maintain a healthy diet?

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Andrew Smith's avatar

The duck do I look like.

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