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Posted on 03/26/2004 2:59:53 AM PST by tomkow6
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...I'm bored....ye'r WHAT???...BORED!.....bummer......wanna have some fun????....
duct tape n There are conflicting accounts concerning the history of duct tape. According to Manco, Inc. (maker of Duck™ Brand tape), it was created by Permacell—a division of Johnson and Johnson—during World War II in the 1940s. Other experts claim that the tape product was invented in the 1920s by researchers for the 3M Company, led by Richard Drew. Most accounts agree, however, that Permacell perfected duct tape during the war. Using state of the art technology, their research team developed a process to combine multiple layers of adhesive onto a polyethylene coated cloth backing. Some say this early product was nicknamed "duct tape” because it repelled water like the bird's feathers or because the fabric mesh was made from duck cloth. Regardless of its origin, the military found many uses for duct tape. One of its earliest applications was to hold ammunition boxes together. For this reason, soldiers referred to it as “gun tape.” The Air Force found other uses for the product and duct tape was used to cover gun ports on planes to cut down the air friction during take off. Like many other military products, duct tape was originally colored olive green, but after the war it was changed to the more familiar silver color. Manufacturers began marketing it to household consumers who found a variety of new uses. The tape is easier to use and just as effective as screws and bolts when it comes to holding together the kind of ductwork that is found in new homes with forced-air heating. As the consumer demand grew, marketers began packaging their tapes in a more consumer-friendly fashion. According to Manco, they were the first company to shrink-wrap and label the duct tape so that it could be easily stacked on display shelves. This packaging improvement made it easier for shoppers to distinguish between the different grades. By 1999, Manco was selling approximately 5,900 short tons (5,352 metric tons), or 246,217 mi (396,240 km), of tape each year.
Welcome to Camp RUN-A-MUK!
Today's TOPIC: What can you use Duct Tape for, you ask???? Plumbing:
DUCT TAPE BIKINI CONTEST - Club Liquid, Orange Park How about
These long-stemmed beauties are duct tape based replica's of a Traditional Rose. They are long-stemmed Roses, with many leaves. You can choose your own colors, mix and match!
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Good morning, Tonk! Good morning, Canteen Crew! Good morning, EVERYBODY!
TROOPS!
Me for PREZ! VOTE !!!
Today's FEEBLE
YOKE:
If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would be worth $49.00.
With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original $1,000.
With Worldcom, you would have less than $5.00 left.
But if you had purchased $ 1,000.00 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the stock) one year ago, drank all
the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling price, you would have $214.00.
Based on the above, my current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.
This is my new retirement program.
I call it my 401-Keg.
COUNTDOWN TO OPENING DAY
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| Sunset | 6:09 PM (CST) |
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Hey Kathy, those ain't Cubs. Those are Tigers. The Cubs play in Chicago and won the World Series in 1908, Go Cubs. The Tigers play in Detroit and they have a much better record in baseball during recent decades.
Cubs doubleheader: Ratu nuzzles one of her two baby cubs while keeping an eye on visitors to her cage at Jakarta's Ragunan Zoo. The Bengal tiger gave birth to three cubs on Monday, but only two survived.
To our troops, veterans, and military family members
THANK YOU for serving the USA!
DUCT TAPE!! Gotta be one of the best inventions made! LOL!
And now this pooped lil vampire is off to grab a couple hours' sleep. I promised myself I wouldn't see the sunrise.....again....but promises were made to be broken, I guess. *giggle*
Y'all behave. No duct taping everyone to the walls and ceilings! ROTFLOL!
Have a wonderful birthday.....and tomorrow start counting backwards! LOL!
Boy! a little duct tape will fix her Eh?
You Bethcha!
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