RE: GZG OT Duck the tape

Heh.. I still have several rolls of Olive Drab U.S. Army
Hundred-mile-an-hour tape!!!
Between that and my P-38 Ubertool (Vietnam-Era Steel one carried through
the jungles of Cu Chi!) Nothing is impossible!

Michael Wikan
Game Design
Slave Zero
Accolade, Inc.
http://www.slavezero.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Barclay [SMTP:Thomas.Barclay@sofkin.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 1998 12:38 PM
> To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	Re: GZG OT Duck the tape
> 
> laserlight spake thusly upon matters weighty: 
> 
> Isn't that Tuck tape? 
> 
> Besides, Electrical Tape has always been crap for making electrical 
> connections hold together (use a Marrett or a crimp on connector), so 
> it shouldn't surprise us that duct tape is crappy for ducts.... :)
> 
> > > They do sell Duck Tape brand duct tape here in the US as well, but
> no one
> > I
> > > know looks at the label - they look for the silvery-gray tape.
> > 
> > 
> > Real Life is Weirder than Fiction Department:
> > Article in yesterday's paper said an engineering research group
> found that
> > duct tape has a variety of uses, but oddly enough, it doesn't do
> well at
> > sealing ducts.  Apparently they tried 15 or 20 different
> sealers--including
> > several different tapes (brown package tape, masking tape, clear,
> etc)--and
> > duct tape came in dead last, "failing consistently and completely".
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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