h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Don't say "to fix things" that removes too many possibilities. I am looking for creative uses.

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1) to hold the oil in your car for 9 months (true story)
2) make a wallet out of it (true story)
3) home-made bumper stickers
4) taping a speaker to that perfect spot on your wall for good achoustics (true story)
5) Ski repair
6) ski boot repair
7) to fix a flat on your mountain bike
8) inexpensive hair removal (see #9)
9) a haloween costume (true story)
10) a better material than foil for a conspiracy theorists alluminum foil skull-cap to prevent mind control.

11) a bandage, for use in emergency situations
12) to connect duct-work

13. Wrapping (VERY CAREFULLY!) over bandaged paws to keep your dog from chewing their bandages off. (Please note, it's a bandage WRAPPER, which is not the same as #11!) True story, unfortunately!

14) As a way to liven up your dull brown desktop/laptop
15) Use instead of Electrical tape for patching your car's electrical system

Clomping

16)To ensure shattered windows don't shatter.
17)To stop rugs and mats slipping on hard floors.
18)To repair cracked rails on UK train tracks.

I don't think that I will be riding the rails in the UK anytime soon, duct tape or no duct tape!

19) Repairing aircraft "skin" damaged in dogfights (actual use by the US Navy, USAF and US Army)
20) taping your pant legs to your socks when participating in the yearly "mud run" -- it keeps the mud from getting all in your shorts (true story)
21) 3 words- Cheaper than Bondo
22) For use in NASCAR to repair damaged race cars and get them back on the track in as little time possible.

23) Fly paper for large flies
24) Absolutely indispensable for roadies/stage managers to fix microphones to stands at underfunded rock band gigs

25) In the ultimately frustrating version of "pass the parcel"

26) To repair props and costumes for the Rocky Horror Picture Show (I'm head of props)

27) To quiet that very annying person

28) To fix a book binding that is falling apart

28) As the ultimate strapless push-up bra. (not easy to remove though!)

29)To hold together the air cleaner box in your car that the garage want to charge a small fortune to replace.

30) Can use to make a book bag - I've seen this
31) Cover holes in boats - I believe I read a story about this. A guy duct taped a hole in his boat and then stepped on the tape. The tape gave under his weight and his foot went thru the tape and hole, got stuck, and the man drowned when the boat sank(Very tragic story, only one I know where duct tape failed).

32. To hold the power switch in place on a UPS so that some idiot doesn't flick the switch to see what it does and take the whole network down! (True story)

It sounds like the brain of the person in the boat failed, not the tape!

33) Part of a kidnapers must-have list. good for gags, tieing up the hostage, making bombs etc.

34) To make funny faces

Explain?

Are we talking permanently or temporary faces here?

35- To hold together body work of your car funny and true, my friend was recently visiting London and had a head on collision with a little old lady and part of his wing was stuck in the side of her car so he duct taped the bonnet wing and most of the light together and then drove home.

36- Something kinky

37- Girls would know about this one, when you have a low cut top and cant wear a bra underneath you tape it near your beasts to keep the top in place and no embarrassing situations not a good idea to rip off slowly and gently