# This week I used duct tape to **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 30, 2000, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-week-i-used-duct-tape-to/27448 "2000-07-30T16:20:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Moleman9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cdc98d/32.png) [@Moleman9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moleman9)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2000, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-week-i-used-duct-tape-to/27448/21 "2000-07-30T23:00:13Z")
1. Tape together 2 peices of tube that used to be attached to each other inside my toilet tank. ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2000, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-week-i-used-duct-tape-to/27448/22 "2000-07-30T23:40:57Z")
I used duct tape to make custom dressmaker’s dummies of me and two friends. ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-week-i-used-duct-tape-to/27448/23 "2000-07-31T03:04:49Z")
…make the two-legged dinosaurs in my son’s playset tail-heavy. They don’t seem to stand very good without that duct tape counterbalance. Yet another use for this highlight of modern technology. ---
**Author:** ![honkytonkwillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@honkytonkwillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/honkytonkwillie)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-week-i-used-duct-tape-to/27448/24 "2000-07-31T09:55:32Z")
I used duct tape last week to cover a rupture in my lawn sprinkler hose. It worked really well for exactly 12 seconds, at which time it lost adhesion over the hole and diverted the spray in a small 10 foot arc toward my neighbor. Every day in my truck, the roll of tape laying on the transmission hump holds my Diet Coke steady. My truck was made with only two drink holders, and they are on the INSIDE lid of the glove box. (WTF??? I’ve always wondered why the manufacturer decided to put them there, of all places.) And my sister-in-law and her bridesmaids got wrapped in tape for dress molds too. ---
**Author:** ![pLt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eb9ed0/32.png) [@pLt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pLt)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-week-i-used-duct-tape-to/27448/25 "2000-07-31T12:37:38Z")
… hold together the Enterprise. Oh wait, that was Scotty. Damn. Which just shows that he is better than LaForge. Yah! ---
**Author:** ![Jois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@Jois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jois)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-week-i-used-duct-tape-to/27448/26 "2000-07-31T12:55:46Z")
Just a second Duck Duck Goose, first of all I would not have a chihuahua as a gift, on a bet or on a bun. This maiden lives a few houses away. Next of all, those dogs are really the piranha of the dog world: fierce and sometimes mean. And last of all, those were my favorite jeans, worn to perfection. ::sniff:: And I’m still having evil chihuahua thoughts. Baked chihuahua with yams Chihuahua baby butt wipes Chihuahua vacuum cleaner bags Chihuahua door mats Chihuahua mitten holders (2 pairs) ---
**Author:** ![etgaw1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ed655f/32.png) [@etgaw1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etgaw1)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-week-i-used-duct-tape-to/27448/27 "2000-07-31T12:56:46Z")
Wallpaper Car Backpack Carpet covering. (there is a virtual web of wires under a layer of duct tape in my apartment) And rember kids… If it can’t be fixed with duct tape, its not broken. ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-week-i-used-duct-tape-to/27448/28 "2000-07-31T13:58:30Z")
If the women don’t find ya handsome, they ought to find you handy… ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-week-i-used-duct-tape-to/27448/29 "2000-07-31T14:07:22Z")
'Twasn’t this week…but I’m so proud that I just had to share: I used duct tape (folded and stuck together) to create a custom-made holder to keep my knitting supplies organized in my knitting bag. There are pockets for knitting needles, a ruler, crochet hooks, and yarn needles. It is a thing of beauty. ---
**Author:** ![Angkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-week-i-used-duct-tape-to/27448/30 "2000-07-31T14:36:55Z")
I have a niece who is 16 and she made a purse out of duct tape, it was…ummm…very interesting. As for myself… I am ashamed to say that I have no duct tape…but I will pick some up today, as I feel the need to “fix” something!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-week-i-used-duct-tape-to/27448.md?page=1)