Ah, the infamous duct tape.
How is duct tape like The Force from Star Wars? They both have a light side and a dark side, and they bind the universe together.
A roll of duct tape and a can of WD-40 is all you really need for most household repairs. If it moves and it shouldn’t, use the duct tape. If it doesn’t move and should, use the WD-40.
I could probably find a dozen other humorous (and true!) statements about this wonderful product, but the people at Lifehacker have done one better — they’ve got an entire list of the uses that people successfully put duct tape to, including a number of them that I’d never have thought of — honestly, healing warts?!
(I saw my first roll of actual “duck tape” — duct tape’s ancestor — in a hardware store last week. Neat.)
Dad had a roll of “duck tape” that he uses for everything, in his house, so I guess I saw the stuff 20 years ago. 😉
But is it real Duck Tape?
(Though apparently it isn’t duct tape’s ancestor, according to this article, just published today.)
Yep, it was real Duck Tape alright, it was in the late 80s and early 90s, after it’d been trademarked according to your article, and had “Duck Tape” on it quite prominently. The article also said it may not be duct tape’s ancestor, nobody is sure, it was lost from history when someone’s pipe overlooking old newspapers leaked and nobody duck/duct taped it. 😉