[Hoosier-Daddy]

Stuck around for a while, didn’t he?

[Milhous]

Is it my imagination or did superglue become less cohesive through the years? You know, for the sake of protecting idiots from themselves.

[kbennkc]

RC airplane model building has never been the same since. I can put my wrecks back together at the crash site to fly and crash again and again.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Eastman 910. Almost impossible to purchase at retail before it became “Super Glue.” It was great stuff.

[JRios1968]

“Plans for an open-casket funeral were cancelled when the lid became stuck...”

[smokingfrog]

President Barack Obama stands with Harry W. Coover who invented cyanoacrylate glue, commonly known as Super Glue, for Eastman Chemical Co., as he hosts a ceremony for recipients of the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honors bestowed by the United States government on scientists, engineers, and inventors, at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

[Nachoman]

Super Glue is probably the most disappointing innovation in modern history, IMHO.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Not to be confused with vaseline LOL.

[Cheetahcat]

Wow never knew that! a lot of cool stuff was accidental,Lexan for one I talked to Dr Fox’s lab Intern ,true story,I think Teflon was accidental also valving was turned on wrong.

[Paraclete]

That guy cost me a few anxious moments in life.

[Revolting cat!]

I haven’t seen the news on the tube yet, but it seems to be pasted all over the Internet.

[Kickass Conservative]

Are they sure he's dead?

He might have accidentally glued his eyelids shut.

[SpaceBar]

In the TIME/LIFE encyclopedia of science from the sixties there was an article dedicated to the newly discovered cyanoacrylate cement and its miraculous properties. It showed two machined steel cylinders glued end-to-end holding up a massive weight. In spite of the “disappointing” remark above, the stuff works well within its application parameters of non-gap filling, and joining precisely matched parts. Also, it cures by catalysis with atmospheric moisture, and mixed with baking soda yields a very versatile, sandable, gap-filling cement, albeit with a very short "working" time.

[mikrofon]

He was survived by his next-of-kin, Elmer....

[VanDeKoik]

I’m a disaster with that stuff. The tubes were always a pain to use without making a mess and sticking my fingers together.

[Revolting cat!]

He was attached to his family.

[Rebelbase]

I used superglue to seal up a sliced finger a while back.

[Revolting cat!]

Apropos, here's the link to the Bond thread.

[Revolting cat!]

Please fasten your reflexes. A man is dead, cold like a slab of cement. Shouldn't we adhere to the rules of civilized behaviour?

[the invisib1e hand]

Coover was working for Tennessee Eastman Company when an accident resulted in Super Glue, according to his grandson, Adam Paul of South Carolina.

the old "accident led to billion dollar invention" story is getting old.

whatever else this nearly usless, overhyped crap did, it kept cheesy late-night TV pitchmen busy.

Fitting, then, that Obama would honor him.