[78-L] Vitrolac: the spelling that would not die!

[David Lennick]

Which came first? Or, is there a duck in your duct?

http://www.madehow.com/Volume-6/Duct-Tape.html
http://www.duckbrand.com/Duck%20Tape%20Club/history-of-duck-tape.aspx

Me, I'm stickin' to this stuff..
http://www.gorillaglue.com/tapes.aspx

dl

On 2/15/2011 12:09 PM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> You are right. Now where is the ketchup to go with the foot I just stuck
> in my mouth? And duck tape is just fine. And I still don't use it on my
> 78 RPM records.
>
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> Don't you mean catsup?
>
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> Other way around! It was originally known as "DUCT tape" and was used to
> patch up
> leaky joins in heating (et al) ducts. Since many cheaper and weaker versions
> were
> sold, it gradually became "duck tape" (the unanswered question being "WHO
> needs to tape a duck...and to what/whom...?!).
>
> Steven C. Barr
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> I believe you're right, Steven, I remember years ago seeing heating pipes with
> this tape on the joins.  I think it's the same as "butterfly".  These creatures
> started out as "flutterby"s but people started getting clever and calling them
> butterflies, (like "tutterbarts" and "scutterbotch").  Somehow that name caught
> on and that's what we call them now.  However, flutterby is an obvious name for
> them.
>
> db