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Old 03-26-2015, 11:59 PM   #2506
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"Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped."---Mark Watney, "The Martian" by Andy Weir



I laughed when I read this. It reflects how the male members of my family feel



Bergette

It was quite literally a lifesaver for the astronauts aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft. Without it they would have been a asphyxiated long before they reached home. Without duct tape there's no way they could have rigged up a carbon dioxide filter to filter the air they were breathing after that onboard explosion took out two of their main oxygen tanks. I've always thought a great advertising slogan would be "Duct Tape. Don't leave Earth without it."

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Old 03-27-2015, 03:15 PM   #2507
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Old 03-28-2015, 07:09 PM   #2508
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Old 04-10-2015, 09:21 AM   #2509
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Old 04-12-2015, 02:48 AM   #2510
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Old 04-12-2015, 02:18 PM   #2511
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Old 04-12-2015, 03:31 PM   #2512
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Old 04-13-2015, 08:46 AM   #2513
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Old 04-16-2015, 07:38 AM   #2514
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Old 04-17-2015, 08:54 AM   #2515
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Old 04-22-2015, 09:12 AM   #2516
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Old 04-22-2015, 03:05 PM   #2517
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Alma had been allowed to stay in school to the completion of third grade, then was sent to work some years in her daddy’s fields before finding her way to town and becoming a laundress, a cook, an all-purpose maid. She lost two sons along the way, her husband, her sister, and earned but little, always one dropped dish and a loud reprimand from complete and utter poverty. She lived scared and angry, a life full of permanent grievances, sharp animosities and cold memories for all who’d ever crossed us, any of us, ever. Alma DeGeer Dunahew, with her pinched, hostile nature, her dark obsessions and primal need for revenge, was the big red heart of our family, the true heart, the one we keep secret and that sustains us.

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Old 04-22-2015, 04:03 PM   #2518
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Old 04-22-2015, 04:14 PM   #2519
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Old 04-24-2015, 05:50 AM   #2520
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"They landed. It's a short sentence, but contains a lot of incident."
~The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett
Great quote... I love Terry Pratchett's writing, he will be missed.
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