Super glue
So, I was washing up when I sliced the top of one of fingers on the slicer doobry on the cheese grater... though obviously, in hot water I didn't feel a thing until I noticed the water had changed colour.

On removing my hand I noticed the top of my finger (about half a centimeter) hanging at a rather strange angle, and about to drop off.

The wife comes running in at the sound of "an ear-piercing scream" (no idea, who that was) and starts rummaging for a plaster, and the suggestion of an ambulance.

Suddenly, my imagined army trainign kicked in.
"get the super glue!"
"What?"
"Super glue was designed for injured soldiers in Vietnam"
"You are not putting super glue on that!"
"It'll be fine... it'll be fine..." I slurred

After persuading her, i would put a plaster over the top as well, she eventually conceeded, and within a few days I had a perfectly working finger again, and a couple of years on, hardly even a scar!
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 9:05, 3 replies)

Super Glue
Was invented by Kodac in the 40's.

You're thinking of Blue Tac.
( Dervel OTBC, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:04, closed)

***MEDICAL KILLJOY ALERT***
Please don't use superglue for cuts, it's not the same stuff we use in A&E! And it's a bastard to get out of eyes...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17351240
(suxamethonium, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 16:32, closed)

So where _can_ we get medical superglue?
I'd like a few tubes on hand in case of emergency or self-surgery.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 18:41, closed)