Lee Valley duct tape: Red Green joke?

Stop me if I've told about this incident here before. Two years ago, I had occasion to take a plane trip to Reno on United. During the refreshment break the attendents beverage cart banged into the seat across the aisle from me and tore off a piece of plastic molding and it was left sticking out into the passageway ready to snag the next passenger. I spoke to the next flight attendent that passed and remarked to her, "you need some of that duct tape you all use on the wings to hold that piece of molding back out of the way." This was a few weeks after that national news story

Larry

Any who watch a PBS station certainly should...

Check out your local PBS affiliate...most (at least out of major metro areas, I don't know about NYC-type places that consider themselves "cultured" :) ) have been airing Red Green for the last few years...

To my taste, parts of his schtick are pretty good, others are pretty lame, but each will have their own opinion...

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High-speed tape is used to cover minor sheet-metal problems all the time. I remember one of our birds "awaiting phase" which had a six-foot crack near the wing root, taped and "FAI" for a couple hundred hours.

I am surprised that nobody has mentioned Red Green's dismal safety record. Some of his skits look like thinly disguised suicide attempts. I will never forget one episode where he used a small, benchtop tablesaw. He was actually throwing peices at it and the saw blade was catching it and throwing it all over the place. Very scary.

Only some of them?

I liked the one where he turned a car into a camper, complete with a grill where the grille would be, and a toilet built into the trunk. He made a really cool beer-bottle clock once, too.

The guy's a genius, without a doubt. Not one to be emulated, but a genius.

On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 1:37 pm, Swingman scribbled:

Ah! So he's a Yankee, not a damn Yankee. I get it now.

Now's your chance to number each piece, remove them, reassemble them on the river, and make yourself a jumbo raft with reclining chair!

I saw that episode, and I kept thinking, "you know, this might work!"

Lee Michaels wrote: ...

Chill, man!!!!

He's got all his fingers (and as far as I know, toes :) ) and I've never seen the hint of a bandage...I suspect those shots are pretty well made up to look much more scary than they really are.

He's not running a "how-to" show, after all.

Well, on the first hand, I don't watch TV, and least of all PBS. I tuned in to watch one Norm show and started a brush fire that is probably still raging in the land of misfit ignored threads somewhere. (I haven't been a regular PBS watcher for yearrrrs, but I am an avid NPR listener, if anyone cares. So muchso that it's really weird when I do get a glimpse of TV and see what some of these people look like for a change. I couldn't believe how goofy looking Wesley Clark was, for example.)

And on the second hand, I just checked out the PBS affiliate that covers a good third of my state, and there ain't no Red anything except Clifford the Big Red Dog. So I'm completely exhonerated for never having heard of it. :)

On the gripping hand, I'd probably rather watch Nude Teens on Ice. Or at least Nude Twenty-Somethings on Ice. Or hell, Nude MILFs on Ice. Or even Nude BBWs on Ice. As long as it's got nekkit wimminz it can't be all bad. Failing nekkit wimminz, a good show about how something mechanical works will do.

Nope. To everyone south of the Rio Grande, I'm a gringo.

Feh. Even if I wanted to watch the idiot light, I don't own the remote control. It's always tuned to something stupid. Some lame ass Japanese cartoon where the Glimofipowkinatux is going to be eaten by the Glomo Yum Yum Hello Kitty Monster, or else some chick flick on the femi-nazi network where some wimminz is conspiring to separate her husband/boyfriend from his penis with a butcher knife and/or hatchet. (Upon hearing which SWMBO just uttered "Whee HAW!" and waved her hand in the air threateningly. Oh s*it.)

I usually carry something slippery, not sticky, when I'm making a trip in the bush.

they never said nude teen *what*......

only near the border with mexico. further south and all US citizens are Yankees....

Yer on a roll tonite! MPT Maryland Public Television) carries Red Green, March 2 at 9PM is the next show.

Dave in Fairfax

Only if your skin is the color of a white chicken skin!

Like I said, soy un gringo.

I've been called a gringo by people from Argentina, Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Spain. No, you're mistaken. :)

This is true. Even Mike Holmes ( Holmes on Homes) says this often enough in his program.

When I learned that I replaced all the duct tape holding my dryer ductwork together with the necessary metal tape.

Didn't catch the whole thread here- forgive me if I am a bit off topic-

The guy that put my furnace in, at the old house, also did a good bit of duct work. As he was cleaning up, he took great pains to show me how his joints were so tight he didn't need duct tape. Never used a bit of it. He did, however, seal some seams with RTV silicone.

-Dan V.