Archive through November 10, 2002
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Archive through November 10, 2002
Karuuna | Thursday, November 07, 2002 - 01:50 pm     Just when I thought I'd seen it all... ************************************** CHICAGO (Reuters) - Duct tape, already legendary for its many uses, can also be deployed to get rid of warts, U.S. Army researchers said Monday [October 14]. Dean Focht of the Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington, said taping over a wart takes about a month to work. The growth is effectively suffocated, and dead tissue can then be gradually rubbed off with an emery board or pumice stone. Focht had 26 subjects aged 3 to 22 years treat their warts with the duct tape method, where the growth was covered for six days then soaked with water and the dead tissue rubbed off. Twenty-five others underwent up to six treatments of cryotherapy with liquid nitrogen. The duct tape method worked for 85 percent of the patients, while cryotherapy was effective for 60 percent. ******************************************** Okay, so what's your favorite use? |
Abbynormal | Thursday, November 07, 2002 - 02:00 pm     I'm ashamed to admit this, but I have the door shelves in my less than 5 years old! refrigerator duct taped. They are pieces of crap. I tried every kind of glue known to man and it didn't work. Tried duct tape, wa la!! Been holding for about 2 years now. It ain't pretty, but it's works.  |
Zachsmom | Thursday, November 07, 2002 - 02:01 pm      |
Car54 | Thursday, November 07, 2002 - 02:06 pm     OMG, Wait til Tabbyking sees this. |
Heyltslori | Thursday, November 07, 2002 - 02:07 pm     I LOVE Duct tape! It has been handy for many car repairs over the years. I found this site about it that is both funny and informative. http://www.ducktape.com/ |
Lumbele | Thursday, November 07, 2002 - 02:15 pm     Now I know why DH has never had warts. If it needs to stick or hold together - he'll duct-tape it. |
Wargod | Thursday, November 07, 2002 - 02:57 pm     Hey, I buy my duct tape at costco...comes in packs of 4, and we end up buying about every other month, LOL. I did see a brief mention of the wart thing on the news or something the other night, thought it was hysterical. And Abby, the little peices that go across the shelves in the fridge in mine, have been broken for ages. I got tired of not being able to use the door shelves, so I taped them...all my stuff now fits nicely in the door, and I have plenty of room for the rest of my stuff, lol. Like you said, its not pretty, but it works. I use duct tape for everything....its patching the crack in my dashboard, has been used to make a pinata beating stick, dang...I've even used it to tape up the binding on paperback books, LOL. I love duct tape almost as much as my staple gun....and no, I'm not nutty, well not completely, but maybe just a little! |
Sia | Thursday, November 07, 2002 - 10:18 pm     My Dad owned his own appliance repair shop for years and always duct-taped the doors shut on appliances so they wouldn't swing open, ruining the hinges, during transport. Usually no sticky residue is left, but Goo-gone takes it off easily if you have any yucky stuff left after you take off the tape. Nothing will mess up your freezer door like letting it swing open when you're driving it home on the back of a pick-up truck! Duct tape makes an effective seam for putting two sections of carpeting together on the underside of the carpet. It holds very nicely. Duct tape will hold things to window glass that normal tape won't hold, especially in cold weather in windows that tend to have lots of condensation. |
Jo_5329 | Friday, November 08, 2002 - 03:33 am     OMG ducktape has it's own website? <faints dead away> I've always called 100 mph tape -- that's what they they called it in the Army when I was in. The joke on the flightline was that a little 100 mph tape (ie: ducktape) kept the helicopters flying another day. We must have a dozen rolls of the stuff around the house too! Wait until I tell hubby .. he's going to have a good laugh over this. Warts? Okay, what about saddle bags? Wonder how it would work on them?  |
Curiouscat | Friday, November 08, 2002 - 04:33 am     When I first saw the title of this thread I thought for sure a Canadian started it Here in Canada we have a comedian called Red Green and has a show by the same name. His trademark gag is using duct tape for everything and anything. He's a real hoot this guy and I saw him at the local mall at a book signing of his a couple years ago. I think he even has a movie out I haven't seen yet. He's even in comercials and ads for duct tape here, he's that well-known. |
Twinkie | Friday, November 08, 2002 - 08:03 am     I've heard Norm Abrams of This Old House say many times that duct tape is good for everything but duct work!!! LOL |
Car54 | Friday, November 08, 2002 - 08:20 am     And Norm said it so it must be true.
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Babyruth | Friday, November 08, 2002 - 08:58 am     Maybe Norm would be kind enough to come wrap your ankle with duct tape for you....I bet your knee would *suddenly* need some, then maybe your shoulder... |
Car54 | Friday, November 08, 2002 - 09:18 am     Babyruth, we never talk dirty about Norm. Norm is a god. We have Laurence for that other stuff. |
Babyruth | Friday, November 08, 2002 - 09:20 am     But we don't have BBC here....*sniff* |
Car54 | Friday, November 08, 2002 - 09:40 am     You will just have to watch him on TLC on Thanksgiving. He is Fabulous. |
Grooch | Friday, November 08, 2002 - 09:43 am     Damn! I am going to miss it. |
Car54 | Friday, November 08, 2002 - 10:01 am     videotape, Grooch, videotape. |
Chiparock | Saturday, November 09, 2002 - 08:21 am     I try to color-coordinate duct tape with the items I use it on. For example, I have black duct tape which was used for hemming the sleeves of my black leather coat; I didn't want to try sewing them, and didn't want to go to the bother of finding a tailor. So, voilà, the sleeves have been shortened, thanks to duct tape. (It got rather sticky and gunky after the first year. I have yet to try the Goo Gone to clean up the gunk.) Then there's the white duct tape, which I used to hold the perches securely on the birdfeeder outside. The list could go on and on .... |
Twinkie | Saturday, November 09, 2002 - 08:49 am     Babyruth, Norm IS a God!!! Car54 is absolutely right!!! |
Car54 | Saturday, November 09, 2002 - 08:52 am     Lol, Chip, I have a collection of colored duct tape too! I have white, black, red, olive green, brown...it is very decorative as well as handy. |
Sia | Saturday, November 09, 2002 - 11:37 pm     Curiouscat, we LOVE Red Green at our house and have watched him for a couple of years. We don't mind that he's an "import" from Canada! I love all the characters on his show, but I've had one nagging doubt for a long time: who plays Bill? I say that he's the guy who plays Harold simply wearing another costume (the segments are in B/W, so it would be tough to tell), but DH says they are two different actors. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks!! Chip and Car, I've only seen silver duct tape. Are you guys talking about vinyl tape that comes in colors? If there are COLORS available in true duct tape, I will have to go get some. The silver gets pretty boring. I'm ready to try a tiny spot of duct-tape on my forehead, LOL. I have a little mole-thingy that keeps coming back even after I scratch it off. Thought it was a pimple at first (even at my advanced age), but this isn't the case. The spot is always noticeable because I won't leave it alone--in fact, DH has been saying to me that if I don't quit bothering it he will buy me a RUBY for it!! He's not nice, is he? How many weeks does it take to work? Guess that might become problematic. |
Chiparock | Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 03:29 am     Sia, my black and white rolls of duct tape are true, honest-to-goodness, wear-like-iron duct tape, which I got at a super-discount store called "Ocean State Job Lot," formerly known as "Yankee Trader." They have the other colors, too, like Car54 mentioned, but as I live in a black-and-white world, with some plumbing thrown in, it's the basics for me: black, white and silver. Hats off to Car54 for inspired artistic creativity: using a broad palette of duct tape. |
Curiouscat | Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 03:46 am     Sia, Bill is a different actor than the one played by Harold. Here's his write-up on the official Red Green Show website: http://www.redgreen.com/cast/rick_green.htm |
Strawberry | Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 04:32 am     Red Green is a crack up. Love that show. The funniest one was a few years ago when he made an air hockey table out of a clothes dryer. That was hysterical. It was funny too when he used duct tape to tape some box fans to his trailer on the back of his van because the wheels kept going flat. He would turn the fans on so it kept the trailer from dragging the ground. That was funny too. In the words of Red Green, "If women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy." |
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