This is just the funniest thread! I am sitting here browsing through my book -- the title of which is "The Jumbo Duct Tape Book." Here are a few:

1. When disposing of used X-Acto and utility knife blades, cover them with duct tape to avoid ripped garbage bags and cuts to your garbage handler. If the garbage guy does happen to sever a finger, be available with your roll of duct tape to fasten it back onto his hand.....

2. Duct tape chunks of a broken mirror to an old basketball, hang it from the ceiling, spin it, hit it with a flashlight, and you're ready to disco!

3. Lay little strips of duct tape sticky-side-up around your living room. Then get out your laser pen and let your cat chase the red dot around the room. Hilarity ensures when the cat hits the duct tape "land mines."

4. Can't find a parking space? Just pull into a yellow curb (no parking) area and cover the curb with white or gray duct tape. Bonus hint: If you do get a ticket, use a roll of duct tape to bribe the judge.

5. Retro fashion tip: Duct tape live birds onto your shoes to make your own pair of flashy "wing tips." ** Not endorsed by the ASPCA!

And lastly, Don't throw away your old credit cards. Wrap them with a few yards of duct tape so you can always have the Universal Power Tool handy in your pocket or purse.

This is absolutely true. I heard on the news a few days ago that duct tape is one of the best things to use to remove warts!

And no doubt far cheaper than going to the doctor or buying wart remover medicines! I can only imagine how it would feel to RRRRIIIIIIPPPPP the duct tape off, bringing the wart with it. Ouch!

Yeah, and easier than finding a hollow log that's been urinated on by a frog at the time of a full moon or something.
I seem to recall a lot of superstitions about that.

Duct tape, modern miracle.

One of my friends spent the summer in a small house made of duct tape with his friends. They used cardboard boxes, covered them in duct tape, then they duct taped them together until they got a house. They even made duct tape pipe for the toilet to lead the pee into the woods... they had to poo in the woods... since it wouldn't go down the pipes lol... He is fanatical about duct tape... he formed a secret society for it... they make duct tape shoes, duct tape shirts, duct tape boxers, duct tape everything, craaaaaaaazy folks .

I had my kitchen table held together with duct tape and chicken wire for quite a while.

We held our front door shut with duct tape for a day until maintenance came and fixed it.

I used duct tape to hold my headlight in place not too long ago. That was tricky, getting enough tape to hold it in, but not so much that the light wouldn't shine through.

I used to laugh when people joked about using duct tape and panty hose to tow something, until............. I actually saw it one day. I had to wake my mom up (she was asleep in the van with me) and ask if I was really seeing that! lol

How about duct taping your hand and onto your bowling ball. Then, when you go down the alley with your ball, you'll have your 300 game quick as you can say Yee Haw!

Having just heard on the local radio station how to remove warts with duct tape I shot in here to post it, only to have found that both Lefois and her twin Blue have posted the same already!

No, you don't rip them out with it, you have to leave the tape on the wart for quite a time, replacing it about once a week until the wart gives up the ghost and falls off.

I use it to tape down the phone cord that runs across the room from the jack to the modem. Keeps you from tripping over it, and way cheaper than the rubber strips you buy in the store that do the same thing.

Police use it when they are short on handcuffs- wrap it a few times around the wrists with a twist in the middle and there's no escape! They also use it on people with really big wrists who don't fit the handcuffs.

I've used it as an emergency patch on engine hoses, to splice together garden hoses, to fix a broken pencil, to mend broken eyeglasses, and to pick up broken glass off the floor.

ShadowHippie

I never thought to use it to pick up broken glass from the floor. Thanks for the great tip, shadowhippie
I am relieved to hear that for wart removal, you don't have to rip the tape off, pulling the wart with it. The other way sounds much more humane

I cannot believe I forgot this one! Earlier tonight, while my nieces were visiting, during a conversation about the Fall Fest from a few weeks ago, one of the girls reminded me about another duct tape use.

Alot of the contestants of the hog wrestle duct tape their clothes on so that they don't lose them in the mud pit. What they do is duct tape the hem of their shirt to their jeans, and duct tape their shoes to the hem of their jeans. They wrap the tape around several times to make sure nothing is going to come loose. That prevents the suction of the mud while wrestling the pig onto the tire from pulling any of your clothes off.

It makes a good lint remover for clothes, too.

I think babymoo wins the prize here - hog wrestling? Do people really do that?

As far as I can tell, Sue, it is only a southern Indiana thing that people do at County Fairs and Fall Festivals. It got started in Dale, at the Fall Festival. You'd be amazed at how many people participate. I have done it 4 or 5 times, the most recent was in September of this year.

What they do is they dig a pit about 10 feet in diameter, about 18 inches deep and fill it with really soupy, watery mud, a foot deep. In the center is a 2 foot tall barrel with a car tire on it. The goal is to get the pig onto the tire in the least amount of time. When the starter gun goes off they release the pig from one side and the team of 4 wrestlers jumps in from the other side. It is really funny to watch people slipping and falling as they are chasing the pig around. There is a one minute time limit per team. The shortest time I have seen it done in was 5 seconds. We are already planning out strategy for next year

I have no idea who came up with the idea. I will have to check into that.

That sounds like a lot more fun than plain old greased pig chasing!

It is alot of fun The gals on my team and I see it as a way to get to play in the mud