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> >> > I wonder who Mr Duct was.
> >>
> >> The inventor of Duct Tape, obviously.
> >>
> >> After they found his tape worked so well on air vents they changed
> >> the name of those to ducts to avoid confusion.
> >>
> >> Next question ?
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> > Why was it really first called duck tape
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> > and where does the expression "as tight as a ducks arse" really come from. >
> Because if it wasn?t the duck would fill with water and would sink, stupid.
That's what my mother told me, but later I heard the rumour that it was back in the days of the samurai where it was common for the samurai fighters to be given a reward for good fighting and that reward was usualy a women, or a man, then next option was a duck or other bird.
> And why does our uni admin call ground floor
> > rooms 0.xx 1st floor 1.xx , 2nd floor 2.xx
>
> Because they keep 'employing' fools as stupid as you...
I;m the one that pointed out that perhaps studetns were getting lost as the lecture room on the timetable is room 2.09 but the door label says 209.
I had 3 students come to me on the 3rd floor asking where office 3.60 is, well that was here on the 3rd floor 18 months ago and was moved to the basement and it's where the academoc now resides NOT on the 3rd floor but the basement, I've no idea what number is on his basement office door we used to call basement rooms with the prefix B but I;m betting admin whole replacing the G with "0." have replaced the B with "0.0" but still haven't change the labels on the actual doors.