Duck Brand is a US brand that is included under the Henkle Consumer Adhesives corporation. It is a play on the term "Duct Tape" and one of it's many adhesive products is, in fact, it's name sake. In the US, duct tape refers to a fabric rather than paper-based tape with a strong adhesive, often used for repairing, you guessed it, ducts. It was invented in WWII and was then and is still used for repairing nearly anything. It's almost completely waterproof, sticks to anything, makes a tight seal and now comes in a fantastic range of colors; in short, it's great stuff. The page posted above is the consumer page for Duck Brand duct tape. It's a great read. The festival is new. The scholarship contest where high schoolers make dresses out of duct tape is already several years old and going strong. You really can do almost anything with it. On one of the crafting websites I belong to, colored duct tapes are used to make purses, wallets, clothing, duct tape roses, and it is versatile enough to be successful at all those things. I LOVE duct tape!! I've never tried removing hair with it. In my experience, though, it WILL remove hair. My guess is, as with many things that remove hair, it will only remove hair when that is not your goal. When that's what you're going for, so sorry, the hair stays put.

Now then, for my actual contribution to the thread. And these are all from personal experience!
Never cook bacon naked.
If your long hair gets caught in a spinning bench grinder, turn it off immediately. And don't bother trying to untagle the resulting knot. Just go for a kicky short look and pretend you did it on purpose!
If ever your best friend tells you she's made a special spicy Mexican pumpkin soup, don't bother trying to be polite.
If any mortar and pestle are used to crush hot peppers, never EVER use it on something else. Get a new mortar and pestle for your basil, or that will be some spicy chicken!
The herb Melissa Officinalis, otherwise known as Lemon Balm, will take over your garden. It is lovely in appearance and fragrance and quite useful, but will choke out many square feet per year until there is nothing but it left. If you grow it and are fond of your other plants, put it in a pot!
Never assume your loved ones know how you feel. Tell them instead.
After a while it's really best not to worry if your chid is playing with the cat toys.
As a rule, ferrets do not like water. Weekly grooming schedule should go nail trim BEFORE bath!

Lothruin, thew mind boggles at frying anything NAKED

Never, ever try to assemble a trampoline after a beery Christmas Eve party. Same warning applied to kid's bicycles...

Applying red polish to toenails while in a moving truck guarantees red toes as well.

Never tell your wife that her bum does look big in that, unless you like to eat hot tongue and cold shoulder.

Fosse, picture a young man and woman, newly married and sharing a romantic Saturday morning. Suddenly, they're hungry. And look! Bacon and eggs in the fridge and bread and potatos in the cupboard! Looks like the perfect breakfast. And why bother taking the time to put on clothes? Oh... That's why!

One of the stupidest things I have ever done was this:

One morning I wanted a herbal tea so I boiled the kettle, got my mug and spoon and opened the particular sachet (peach and passion fruit to be precise). Unfortunately I ripped the teabag as well. Bother. So my bleary-eyed, befuddled self decided to fix the problem with selotape. Half asleep but very pleased with myself I return to the kitchen, place teabag in mug, and pour water. I look into the water and wonder why there are floating bits in my tea - and then it dawns on me that the selotape would have melted. (Doh!) I couldn't stop laughing at my stupidity. I've done the same thing since (ripping the teabag that is) but I've stapled it back together instead - ta dah!!!

So, warning: wake up before performing seemingly easy tasks...

It sounds to me, Moonchild, that you need a tea ball! Go look in the cheap cooking utensils section of your supermarket. Then, next time you rip the tea bag, you can just empty the contents into the tea ball and call it good. :-)

Lothruin, Logical, Reasonable, and completely off your head, but in the same circumstances........Who wouldn't be!

I've never even heard of a tea ball - I'm going to hunt one down the next time I go shopping....

The stapler is effective though...but the tea bag is an odd shape once I've finished with it.

Moon, here are some pictures of tea balls and tea strainers - click here

I'm surprised you've never seen one - especially living in the UK! Very useful items to have on hand!

The following items should never be used to get rid of a beehive:
Torn piece of charcoal bag
Lighter fluid
Fire of any sort
Three reasonably intelligent men who are bored

Thank you Linda! I've never seen one until now - they're lovely little things...

Obviously I've seen tea strainers - I make tea with one occasionally when I buy loose tea rather than bags by mistake but tea balls had so far eluded me..

cool!

Indie,

And on that note, one should never cover the hole of a mudwasp hive. They don't like it much and they have other exits. It can result in many stings, especially to the innocent observer standing well away from the incident, but inadvertantly closer to the other exit, and even MORE especially if that person is wearing any kind of fruity cosmetic products. Picture, if you will, a man chasing a woman around a swimming pool parking lot, the woman screaming, the man beating her about the head, her hair smelling of strawberry RedKen hairspray, and understand that the man is actually doing the woman a favor. Also worth mentioning: wasps get tangled in hair.

Oh dear, that sounds like a very harrowing experience.

I suppose I should explain how I came to know tht flames, bored men and lighter fluid should never be used to take care of a beehive.

We had this huge beehive on our back porch. Rhiannon was having her birthday party, so the men folk decided to rid the porch of the hive. Now, we've got Raid bee killer, but that wasn't "manly" enough. I looked out my back door to see my husband on the shoulders of our friend. Said husband is holding a flaming piece of a charcoal bag in a fashion that I can only describe as Statue of Libertyesque. The third man in this comedy of errors is crouched on the ground like every catcher I've ever seen in an MLB game with our garden hose. He's got the hose aimed at the porch "just in case." I went outside to ask Larry, Moe and Curly what exactly they were doing they all three looked at me like I'd sprouted a horn on my forehead and replied in unison, "Getting rid of the beehive." So, I asked them why they had not run this little plan by me as I would be the one to call 911 when they managed to set the house on fire. Their response was "You would have stopped us."

IQ, I'd comment on your post if I weren't laughing so hard!

Lawn (grass) "Feed & Weed" isn't it supposed to kill weeds and feed the grass not the other way round!

Kinda on the same theme... If you're bored after stapling your coursework together, and you've tidied up your entire room apart from the stapler, and your lying in bed looking at the stapler, and you're wondering "I wonder if that stapler will work on my arm?" and "I wonder if it would hurt?" also "I wonder how youu would get said staple out of said out again?"... DO NOT under ANY circumstances conduct a scientific experiment to find out the answers. If you happen to be that intrigued, the answwers are as follows:
Yes it works,
No, it doesnt hurt going in... coming out however is a totally different matter,
In order to get the staple out of the arm it had to be removed via a staple remover, which required finding the staple remover and then using it.

I do not reccomend anybody try to reconstruct my bordom!

Ouch, Nemmie! That was an...(thinking of the right word)...interesting ... experiment. I would think the said staple would be right on the top of your skin still, so you could just pull it out with your fingers on the other arm.........but I think I will heed your advice and not "try it at home".

On another note, it's amazing what we will do when we're bored, isn't it?

It is lol. The thing was I couldnt pull it out with my fingers it was too stuck!
But hey bordom affects the minds of the young the weird and the insane in stange ways. And back in high school I was indeed all three

Lol. Nemesis, on that note, never leave a bored 13 year old with a pair of scissors.

My sister went through a phase where, when she was bored, if scissors were lying around, she'd cut things into little pieces. This usually involved any small, usually unimportant bit of paper that happened to be lying close to the scissors, but failing that, also involved, at various times, her socks, dry pasta, the eyelashes off ONE eye of her favorite stuffed penguin and a part of her eyebrow...

lol out of bordom I made my younger cousin pluck one of her eyebrows when she was about 12 or so? The look of pain on her face scares me til this day!

Never try making the hair dryer dry faster by bringing it closer to your hair and therefore getting more heat.

The one time I did that my hair got caught and well, it wasn't very fun.

If you ever end up in hospital and it involves a tube being inserted somewhere, don't ever forget to pick up the apparatus that the tube leads to/from before setting off for a walk around the ward.