# Silicone Caulk, Super Glue and a Kickball **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2004, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766 "2004-04-13T13:05:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766/21 "2004-04-13T19:09:44Z")
> [@tanookie](#): > > I took a hammer and a small nail and nailed holes into the sides of my doll’s heads so I could stick earrings in there… > > Tanookie’s discount doll piercing emporium 🙂 …and this is why **Tanookie** grew up to be a serial killer… Incidentally, did anyone else get the same mental image I did, of Rue having kickballs crazyglued to both hands and looking like an off-color Doraemon? ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766/22 "2004-04-13T23:24:46Z")
When I was reading some kiddie sci-fi books called _Devil On My Back_ about people with extra memory banks wired into them, I cut holes in the back of my She-Ra dolls’ heads. And made little wire-and-duct-tape computery thingies. And drilled IV tubes in their necks. I think I was ten. I did piercings on my My Little Ponies, too. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766/23 "2004-04-13T23:29:01Z")
Can y’all imagine if **tanookie** and **Lissla Lissar** had been childhood friends and playmates? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766/24 "2004-04-14T01:15:31Z")
If you heat a straight pin it’ll make nifty holes in your dolls. You could use this method for earrings I suppose. The computery stuff that **Lissla** is talking about skeeves me though. I picture a Chuckie that’s been assimilated by the Borg, eeww. I have a cold! That’s what I did with my weekend. Okay, I’m barely sick, so I assembled a table that came in the mail. The directions were writtenwithoutpunctuationorspacing and the illustrations were weensy. For a table that came in the mail, it’s not so bad. Then I lay on the couch and coughed and felt sorry for myself. One of my cats doesn’t like it when I sneeze or cough. She runs over and yells at me. Little weirdo. I once glued my finger to my lip, while repairing a nail. I didn’t realize it until I’d ripped a little piece of my lower lip off. It still hurts to think of that. My bathroom is typical-apartment cream with stone, teal and brick red accents. It sounds awful but it looks good. The caulking is sloppy but works. I need shelves though. Somebody build me some shelves, I’m too sick to do it myself right now. _coughs delicately_ Please? For the little sicky? ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766/25 "2004-04-14T01:52:48Z")
Ha! As a child, **Mr. Taters** inserted bottle rockets in the hands of his GI Joe, set it up on his Dad’s camper, lit the fuses. He expected his GI Joe to fly; alas, he just blew up. He also tried to give his GI Joe a haircut…on the **bench grinder!** He did a couple of other awful things to his GI Joe, but that’s all I remember. I’ve never superglued myself to anything…or myself for that matter. However, I’m thinkin’ some superglue on the lips of my “team leader” wouldn’t be bad idea! I became REAL GOOD (good English and grammar huh?) at caulking. In my former house we had to replace the toilet THREE times. Little kids, toys and toilets…not a good mix. Your bathroom sounds lovely, **Swampy**. I have a HUMONGO white tub, white toilet, white shower stall (with glass doors), and white sinks in our separate vanities. The floor and tile surrounding the tub are a beigey, creamly color. The floor also has little spots of a slatey bluish color in it. I haven’t bought any rugs or “pretty, do not touch” towels yet. I can’t decide what colors I want. The weather here was absolutely, stunningly gorgeous all last weekend. It was over 80 degrees here on Sunday! I spent all weekend outside playing horse with the neighbors, gossiping with neighbors and putzing around the yard. On Easter we went to MIL’s and ate lotso ham and tater salad. Then we hid 160 plastic easter eggs filled with money and candy and sent the kids to look for them. Hmmm, I thinking one of the colored Easter (real) eggs would be tasty about now. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766/26 "2004-04-14T02:35:11Z")
I replied to the wrong thread again, didn’t I? Let’s see, here… The “ **tanookie** as a serial killer” angle holds some promise, but could play out quickly. **Kallessa** is talking about her boobs again, or will be as soon as she finds this. Not that I object, or think anything is wrong with talking about her boobs, but we’ve done that. Plus, I’m still sorta’ miffed about the whole “standing me up on the engagement” thing. So that’s out. **swampbear** is gay. And compulsively decorating. We knew this. **Lissla Lissar** is Canadian. We knew this too. **FairyChatMom** is presumably still mad at me about the **EveryBodyDamnElse** thing. And still being a Mom. Here, even. I’d like to reach out and seal the gap, repair the damage, whatever, but I’m afraid her hard-nosed engineering nature will take over and force her to make a hard decision and cut me loose. Or maybe I’m overreacting. Ahh… **Ashes, Ashes** has given me some material. > [@](#): > > I once glued my finger to my lip, while repairing a nail. You don’t _repair_ a nail, nimrod, you just get a new one out of the box and hammer that one in. Dear God, that was lame. ---
**Author:** ![Magickly\_Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magickly\_Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magickly_Delicious)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766/27 "2004-04-14T02:36:00Z")
I am afraid of superglue. I actually don’t have any in the house-I only have good ol’ Elmer’s Glue. I mean, really, superglue is responsible for the plotline of so many bad sitcoms. I just started playing _Devil May Cry_, and I am learning that I am also afraid of marionettes. Especially moving, clattering marionettes wielding sharp daggers. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766/28 "2004-04-14T03:00:43Z")
Poor **Ex.** I think you must be overly sensitive today. I don’t think **FCM** is going to cut you loose. Moms just say what is on their mind and then forgive and forget, even if they are engineers. I won’t mentionboobies. Well, I guess I just did, but I WHISPERED it. Canadians aren’t so bad; well except for that silly “Great White North” thing. I don’t repair my nails. I have UGLY, BUGLY, FUGLY nails. They never grow nice and perty, and I don’t want to mess with fake ones. I root around in the garden too much. Sorry **Ex,** there had to be just a leetle girly stuff, ya know? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766/29 "2004-04-14T03:16:43Z")
Hmph, like you didn’t know I was talking about a fingernail, **Ex**. Nobody could be so stupid as to think I was referring to hardware store type nails. You’re just trying to get me into a snit you ol’ grumpus. Well, you’ve worked me into a snit but I play dirty! I love **welby** more than you-- always have, always will! Sorry bud, you made me tell the truth, right out here in the open. You can lie there if you promise to bleed quietly. ---
**Author:** ![SpectBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@SpectBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpectBrain)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766/30 "2004-04-14T03:26:44Z")
ode to a practical joke Super glue on the toilet seat Getting off is no mean feat. Cry for help goes unheard Alone above the floating turd. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766/31 "2004-04-14T10:11:51Z")
> [@Taters](#): > > He did a couple of other awful things to his GI Joe, but that’s all I remember. My husband and his friends used to play “Prisoner of War Camp” with their GI Joes. There were a lot of construction sites around his neighborhood, so they’d find a nice pile of rocks and dirt and let the games begin. And these were the _big_ GI Joes - back in the 60s. I seem to recall him telling me about using cherry bombs, among other things. I’m so glad he got that out of his system before we got married. **Ex** , you silly, I could never cut you loose. Yer my bud! Granted, you don’t rank as high as **Rue** , and probably not as high as **swampy** , since he’s driving all the way from Jawja to attend my farewell fest, but you’re still OK in my book. So far… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766/32 "2004-04-14T11:41:41Z")
Sometimes you _do_ have to repair a nail **Ex**. Say you’re teaching your kids the finer points of kit-carpentry and they want to build a birdhouse or even a jewelry box to give to their mom for Christmas. So they start nailing it together with those little wire brad things you get with the kits. Since they’re just little kids they go _tap…tap…tap…tap…tap…tap_ on the nails (that are really brads) until _klurnk_ they knock the nail all sideways. In those kits they don’t give you a lot of (or really any) extra nails. So it’s up to _you_, the responsible adult overseeing the construction, to straighten the nail back out so they can go back to their _tap…tap…tap…tap…tap…tap_-ing. One nail can take the better part of the afternoon. Then they’ll _finally_ get bored with the project so you can send them off to watch TV while you take another 20 minutes to finish the job up. Then they give it to Mom and say “Look what I made you!” and you, beig the Good Dad, don’t point to the one, still sorta crooked nail, and say “Yeah! The hammered that one in _almost half way_!” And **Swampy** ’s gay?!? When did that happen? Why doesn’t anyone _tell_ me these things? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766/33 "2004-04-14T12:06:27Z")
> [@Rue DeDay](#): > > And **Swampy** ’s gay?!? When did that happen? Why doesn’t anyone _tell_ me these things? I got the toaster to prove it too! 😃 It’s 41 degrees here this morning. Brrrrrrrr! Ick! 80s by the weekend though. So yippie! ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766/34 "2004-04-14T14:21:50Z")
Drat. I can’t remember who the author of the book was. It was the _Keeper Of The Isis Light_ chick- wrote lots of kiddie sf. I hadn’t thought of applying heat, _Ashes_. How fascinating. Speaking of kiddie books and being freaked out, did anyone else read John Bellairs when they were little? _The House With The Clock In Its Walls, The Lamp From The Warlock’s Tomb, The Curse Of The Blue Figurine_? He scared me so badly that I couldn’t go near the damn bookshelf where I kept his books. Of course, I’m a wuss. I’m not even allowed to watch the X-Files because I’ll have nightmares. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766/35 "2004-04-14T14:44:56Z")
> [@Lissla Lissar](#): > > Drat. I can’t remember who the author of the book was. It was the _Keeper Of The Isis Light_ chick- wrote lots of kiddie sf. > > I hadn’t thought of applying heat, _Ashes_. How fascinating. > > Speaking of kiddie books and being freaked out, did anyone else read John Bellairs when they were little? _The House With The Clock In Its Walls, The Lamp From The Warlock’s Tomb, The Curse Of The Blue Figurine_? He scared me so badly that I couldn’t go near the damn bookshelf where I kept his books. > > Of course, I’m a wuss. I’m not even allowed to watch the X-Files because I’ll have nightmares. The House With the Clock in its Walls is on my bookshelf still waiting to terrorize my own kids one day 🙂 I did not know there were others! When I was 9 I did not realize you could seek out books by author. The worst toy tragedy in Casa Tanookie’s Parents was perpetrated by the evil neighbor children. I had an amazing matchbox car collection. I loved my matchbox cars. I was young and stupid. I let the neighbor kids play with them overnight. They came back in their box smashed to smithereens. They took a freaking hammer to every one of my cars! I’m still scarred and today no one touches my Johnny Lightning Monopoly cars. They sit in their see through collector’s case out of the hands of munchkins. You want to hammer - hammer your own crap! ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766/36 "2004-04-14T18:25:21Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > It’s 41 degrees here this morning. Brrrrrrrr! Ick! 80s by the weekend though. So yippie! I’m going to be travelling to Tennessee next week, and this exact situation is making me atwitter. It was in the 30’s the other day, but they were predicting high 70’s by this weekend? How will I know what to pack? I’m just going to have to TAKE IT ALL! Gah! I like to travel light! ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766/37 "2004-04-14T18:37:51Z")
> [@scout1222](#): > > I’m going to be travelling to Tennessee next week, and this exact situation is making me atwitter. It was in the 30’s the other day, but they were predicting high 70’s by this weekend? How will I know what to pack? I’m just going to have to TAKE IT ALL! Gah! I like to travel light! **scout** you do need to take it all. Even though it may reach high 70’s the lows could be upper 30’s to mid 40’s this time of year still. Witness the fact this weekend we’ll have highs in the mid 80’s and lows in the mid to upper 40’s. And I am waaaaaaay south of Tennessee. So it’s sweatshirts and tank tops weather. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766/38 "2004-04-14T19:00:09Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > My husband and his friends used to play “Prisoner of War Camp” with their GI Joes. There were a lot of construction sites around his neighborhood, so they’d find a nice pile of rocks and dirt and let the games begin. And these were the _big_ GI Joes - back in the 60s. I seem to recall him telling me about using cherry bombs, among other things. I’m so glad he got that out of his system before we got married. My friend Tommy and I used to play “tunnel warfare” with his GI Joes (Mom wouldn’t buy one for me–something about me being a girl). We dug these big holes in his backyard and then created caves and tunnels between the holes and stuck Joe and various other military figures into them. We also created cave-ins using cherry bombs or flooded the place. I remember a lot of mud. For most of that summer I wasn’t allowed in the house through the front door, I had to come in through the back door, take off my clothes in the laundry room and go directly to take a bath. I’m not talking to **Ex** , who, for the record, is the one stood me up on the engagement, thank you very much! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766/39 "2004-04-14T19:06:48Z")
Has anybody else ever had to caulk and weatherstrip their car… or was I just the poorest college student ever? ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766/40 "2004-04-14T19:37:36Z")
It is truly a bad thing when your mother comes home from work and opens the front door and has water pour out onto her shoes. It does not make her any happier to note that this is because the only adult in the house decided to start a water fight with the children and when he started to lose decided to grab the garden hose and come in the back door spraying water on full blast. Just Sayin’ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicone-caulk-super-glue-and-a-kickball/239766.md?page=3)