Monday, March 12, 2007

Oh, the joys of working for a nonprofit...

This morning I "fixed" my office chair using a combination of electrical and duck tape.

Grammy Pammy just informed me that the proper name is "duct tape" (as opposed to "duck tape"). I, however, prefer "duck" to "duct". I also refer to "pinktails" as "pigtails". I think it has something to do with my love of animals. After all, ducks are cute, while ducts...yeah, not so much.
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8 comments:

  1. Grammy Pammy3/12/2007 1:18 PM

    It's "duct" tape, as in air-conditioning ducts that are taped together, but it is more and more familiarly known as "duck" tape....oh well....doesn't really matter....

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  2. Anonymous3/12/2007 3:42 PM

    It's duct tape ... I lost some this weekend in the attic.

    My daughter wears a "pony" not a "pony tail" and she calls rubberbands "ponies".

    ~Jef

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  3. Grammy Pammy3/12/2007 5:17 PM

    Yes, ducks are cuter---especially baby ducks...soft and downy...yellow or soft brown---so why is duck tape silver?? Shouldn't it be yellow?

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  4. Anonymous3/13/2007 10:57 AM

    pinktails? what is that? i've never heard of that. must google.

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  5. RR3/13/2007 10:19 PM

    I can see why you got the term confused. First of all, "duct" and "duck" sound very similar. Second, to make matters worse, one brand of duct tape actually has a picture of a duck on its packaging, which, when I saw it, made me question my own understanding of the correct term. "Wait," I thought. "Is it duck tape? I thought it was duct tape..."

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  6. Deals On Wheels3/14/2007 9:44 AM

    All I know is that I'm going to call it "duck tape" from here on out. True, that's what I was calling it before, but now it's official. :P

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  7. Lia3/14/2007 2:10 PM

    Duct tape is a tried-and-true method of fixing things, not a quick, nonprofit fix.

    A good engineer needs only two tools: duct tape, and WD-40. The Golden Rule: If it moves and it shouldn't, use duct tape. If it doesn't move and should, use WD-40.

    There you have it: four years of torture compressed into two sentences.

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  8. Katie3/21/2007 12:24 PM

    I'm with Jes, I always thought it was pigtails like the . . . wait for it . . . pig tail. But piNKtails sounds very cute and girly so I guess it could work too.

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