Duct tape sales rise amid terror fears

http://www.cnn.com ^ | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 | From Jeanne Meserve

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Americans have apparently heeded the U.S. government's advice to prepare for terror attacks, emptying hardware store shelves of duct tape.

On Tuesday, less than 24 hours after U.S. Fire Administrator David Paulison described a list of useful items, stores in the greater Washington, D.C. area reported a surge in sales of plastic sheeting, duct tape, and other emergency items.

[unspun]

145. The best way to rid the world of door-to-door salesmen: duct tape every single one that comes to your house to the next space shuttle to launch. - stefko@westol.com

That one is just too tacky, right now.

[JustPiper]

Reminds me of the father in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, whose answer to everything was Windex ;)

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Your wife sounds like my mother, who used to carry a purse that more resembled what Charlie Cowell the Anvil Salesman carried around in "The Music Man".

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Totally agreed. Thanks for the strikeout.

[unspun]

My sister wrapped a moose in duct tape, once.

[chnsmok]

Yah, like I am sure.

[unspun]

Rather take my chance driving away than sitting there messing with duct tape and plastic.

How far could you drive, if you sealed your car? Did you ever think of that?

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Don't laugh..............

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/14/health/main525523.shtml

DUCT TAPE THERAPY

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(AP) Duct tape, the all-purpose household fix-it with hundreds of uses, can also remove warts.

Researchers say over-the-hardware-counter duct tape is a more effective, less painful alternative to liquid nitrogen, which is used to freeze warts.

The study was reported in the October issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.

In the study, patients wore duct tape over their warts for six days. Then they removed the tape, soaked the area in water and used an emery board or pumice stone to scrape the spot. The tape was reapplied the next morning. The treatment continued for a maximum of two months or until the wart went away.

The duct tape irritated the warts, and that apparently caused an immune system reaction that attacked the growths, said researcher Dr. Dean "Rick" Focht III of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

He said researchers did not test other kinds of tape, and so they cannot say whether there is anything special about the gray, heavy-duty, fabric-backed tape.

Pediatric dermatologist Dr. Anthony J. Mancini of Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago said he uses duct-tape therapy for warts in his practice.

"The whole point of this is a non-painful approach," said Mancini, who was not involved in the study.

[tubebender]

My wife is still carrying 3 cans of Spam from late in 1999...

[JustPiper]

I think you are a mole in FR.

LMAO, I swear I am not the mole (Kathy tell em'.)

[chnsmok]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

The father of one of my college roommates did indeed build a bomb shelter in the backyard of their Chicago-suburban home. The father worked at ..............

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

No kidding. Do you think he had a long-range vision about nuclear capabilities (i.e. massive destruction)?

[unspun]

Yah

I see yew are from da mudder land. We don't have any duc tape der, das why vee mewve.

[chnsmok]

That Spam is still good...

[JustPiper]

Oh, man I expected the link to lead to another joke page and there was CBS.









Come to think of it what bigger joke is there than CBS?

[JustPiper]

Fermi is a scarey place....











Too bad he didn't have duct tape ;)

[tubebender]

That Spam is still good...

I know...there were 4 but we ate one last nite.

[unspun]

See, warts can't even breathe with that stuff around.

[stainlessbanner]

Pappy always said there are 2 things you need: WD-40 to loosen it, Duct Tape to keep it together.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

BTW, it's a family "joke" that my father-in-law uses Duct Tape to repair just about everything. (It surely came in handy in the gymnastics gym where he coached. :-) But he's really correct - it is indeed recommended in just about every for-real survival kit instructions I've ever read.