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Default Duct tape was: [ Why did the professional camera reviewerstotallymiss a serious flaw in the camera?]

John McWilliams wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:


Then you don't know the proper way to use duck (duct) tape. In a
case like this, you use the tape to hold something against the door, so
it CAN'T move.


Where in world did you come up with duck?? One doesn't tape ducks; one
tapes ducts. except it isn't very good for that.....



SIGH. It was named DUCK tape by GIs who used it to waterproof
shipping containers, because 'Water flows off it, like water off a
duck's back'.


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