Bodge JobsIf you can't fix it with a hammer and a roll of duck tape, it's not worth fixing at all, my old mate said minutes before that nasty business with the hammer and a roll of duck tape. Tell us of McGyver-like repairs and whether they were a brilliant success or a health and safety nightmare.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 11:58)
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Hmmmm, a link to a company called duck tape's website,and lo the website says duct tape was called duck tape first, oh, and by the way duck tape is the best brand on the market.
I call bullshit. It's called duct tape.
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The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 10:19,
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Well it's all called that now, aside from the specifically branded "Duck Tape"but historically duck tape does precede duct tape
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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 10:25,
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Just looked it up on wiki and they say it could be either way.There used to be a thing called cotton duck tape to which adhesive could have been added, but then again the phrase duct tape could be a preservation of the original name, for doing duct work.
EDIT: Whatever came first doesn't really matter anyway, as it is now called Duct Tape. Language and names evolve, so duct tape is in fact correct.
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vix0r was not Matthew on, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 13:16,
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