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08/06/2010 09:53:51 PM · #1 |
Create an image with duct tape as your main subject. Be Creative! See pics below.
As might be expected from its widespread use, duct tape has featured in many references in popular culture. Its image is one of "make-do", or "cheap fix", and it is particularly associated with men. For instance, in the US sitcom Frasier, Martin Crane's beloved and ugly old armchair, complete with pieces of duct tape covering rips in the fabric, sat in the middle of an otherwise impeccably furnished room.
The character Red Green, of the Red Green Show dubs it "the handyman's secret weapon" and spawning a major motion picture called Duct Tape Forever and the character becoming the spokesman for 3M duct tape. Red Green also compared it to The Force, citing the fact that each has a light side and a dark side, and claiming that both are responsible for holding the universe together. The title character of the television series MacGyver, also a master of improvised inventions, made frequent use of duct tape, a flattened roll of which he often kept in his back pocket. The MythBusters devoted two entire episodes to duct tape by lifting a car with it, repairing and making a boat out of it, creating a duct tape cannon, building a bridge from it, preventing a parked car from moving off and attempting but failing to stop a moving car. They also tested the single strip break strength at 67 lbs.
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08/06/2010 10:10:19 PM · #2 |
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08/06/2010 10:29:50 PM · #3 |
| There's a kid who does a promo for the PBS Kids channel who makes all kinds of stuff out of duck tape (reputedly the original name). |
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08/06/2010 10:30:57 PM · #4 |
Lots of possibilities in this suggestion. I like it.
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08/06/2010 10:32:44 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
There's a kid who does a promo for the PBS Kids channel who makes all kinds of stuff out of duck tape (reputedly the original name). |
I thought "duct" tape was the original name and it got twisted into "duck" tape by the way most people pronounce it. |
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08/06/2010 10:38:35 PM · #6 |
| I heard it was "duck" because of the way it shed water, unlike any other tape of the day (1930-40's?), perhaps in the miltary, and that it got turned into "duct" because people ("civilians" couldn't think why tape should be called after a waterfowl, and that that "must" have been a corruption of the actual term. Since testing (at Lawrence Berkeley Lab) showed that while the stuff is useful in a variety of ways, sealing (heating) ducts is not one of them, it lends that theory a nice sensibility even if not 100% true. |
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08/06/2010 10:42:40 PM · #7 |
as I said in my comment to spiffys camera bag:
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
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08/06/2010 10:43:08 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Since testing (at Lawrence Berkeley Lab) showed that while the stuff is useful in a variety of ways, sealing (heating) ducts is not one of them, it lends that theory a nice sensibility even if not 100% true. |
The guy that services my furnace said the exact same thing... duct tape is good for everything except ducts. I guess its only fair though, Scotch tape is good for everything except Scotch... doesn't provide much of a seal, and it all leaks out :P |
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