From dalton@concentric.net Mon Jan 29 11:52:16 2001 Date: 05 Oct 2000 07:42:57 GMT From: Leigh D. Butler Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Subject: Re: TAN: Eating rotted meat and septic infections Apropos of nothing, on Wed, 04 Oct 2000 20:47:00 +0200 Jasper Janssen wrote: > Leigh D. Butler wrote: > > >Duct tapeliness is next to Godliness. > > > >Ask any film student. > You've obviously never used actual gaffer tape. Duct tape positively > sucks in comparison. Sweetie, lemme explain life to you. Life, for a film student, is overwhelmingly about tapes. Don't try to explain tapes to me, for I know all the tapes. I _had_ all the tapes. Scotch tape, masking tape, gaffer tape, duct tape, editing tape (clear for film, solid for sound), double-sided- extra-sticky tape, that ticky-tacky-gummy shit you use instead of tape when you don't want it to show, strip tape, sealing tape... And those are just the tapes that are for fastening one thing to another thing. That's leaving out the 16mm mag tape, 1/8 inch Nagra tape, 1/2 inch VHS tape, 3/4 inch tape, Beta tape, leader tape, cassette tape, measuring tape... To answer your observation more specifically, you're wrong. Gaffer tape sticks very well to what it was designed to stick to (metal, mostly), but falls off everything else. Duct tape sticks to everything, whether it be metal, wood, paper, canvas, glass, plastic, concrete, fabric, papier-mache, tile, sheetrock, carpet, human, ceramic, rubber...you get the idea. [1] Gaffer tape is used on lighting and camera equipment instead of duct tape not because it's better tape, but because duct tape (a) tends to leave a sticky residue on expensive equipment and (b) is more flammable than gaffer tape. -- Leigh Butler dalton@concentric.net ************************************** "Lucky I can't see far with this leg." [1] And if you think I haven't used duct tape on every single one of these surfaces at one point or another, you're sadly mistaken. I reiterate: Duct tapeliness is next to Godliness.