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Method of Madness:
http://questionablecontent.horse
I love not only where that link leads, but that .horse is a thing.
explicit:
Much seizure, very bad.
SubaruStephen:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 08 Feb 2015, 18:37 ---Actually, it's because it is supposed to be used to seal gaps in air ducting. When you're constructing a vent for your dryer, for example, you're supposed to use duct tape to cover the seams between pipe segments.
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Except duct tape is the wrong type of tape for sealing ducts!(?) It doesn't handle the heat and will dry out and crumble.
For actually sealing ducts you use foil backed tape made for sealing metal work:
Yeah, I don't understand how the name duct tape got stuck on something that's not meant to be used on ducts either. :?
Blue Kitty:
--- Quote ---I love this story because this guy in the early 1800’s had so many great childhood memories of this tree and wanted to make sure it was protected no matter what. So he deeded the ownership of the tree to itself and everyone just went with it.
Then in 1942 this intense windstorm came and knocked the tree over. And people were bummed. But someone had saved an acorn from the original tree, so they planted that and now Son of the Tree That Owns Itself is over 50 feet tall.
And since this new tree is technically the offspring of the original tree it’s considered to have legally inherited the plot of land it’s inhabiting.
Two generations of trees owning land is amazing and if you don’t think this is the coolest thing get right out of my face.
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Dalillama:
--- Quote from: Grognard on 08 Feb 2015, 17:49 ---NASCAR loves the stuff...
and y'all are right.
the proper name is DUCT tape. It is made by many manufacturers, including DUCK TAPE brand.
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Nope. Duck tape precedes duct tape by between 1 and 6 decades, depending on how you count (duck tape initially meant just strips of cotton duck, which usage dates to the late 19th century. Adhesive duck tape was introduced in WWII, and was later released under the brand name Ductape in the 1950s, which quickly mutated to duct tape.
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 08 Feb 2015, 18:45 ---The problem with duct tape is that though it's called "200 MPH Tape" in NASCAR, sometimes it doesn't hold if it's not applied properly. And when it comes off.... things can happen.
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Well, they doubled the number, that's the problem. They used to only call it 100 MPH tape.
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