Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: This Is a Job For - Polarizing Film ? Date: 2 Jan 2026 07:25:35 GMT Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <6f94803c-4069-440b-ba22-ae38e8d5f24c@invalid.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 9NBzD7j8Qi0/sgH9PvgTXwF4Rq2S5TUW15gdCwDL8tiDzM/qPp Cancel-Lock: sha1:bpYc7r0PfJDxNtVy6IS7EFpChbY= sha256:8WTBi9O2prdLckZmfb1dJbTzxX/Qyn4kpMFl7csWghw= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:80285 On Thu, 1 Jan 2026 17:23:38 -0600, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote: > On 1/1/26 15:48, rbowman wrote: >> On Thu, 01 Jan 2026 14:29:21 +1100, Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood wrote: >> >>> Groovy hepcat c186282 was jivin' in comp.os.linux.misc on Tue, 30 Dec >>> 2025 03:25 am. It's a cool scene! Dig it. >>> >>>> Had some non-stick film, and duck tape. SEEMS >>> >>> Forgive the spelling correction here; but unless it quacks and >>> waddles, that's duct tape. :) >> >> 100 mph tape. No ducts or ducks involved. > > 100 mph? I thought that was strictly a military thing. Lead backed > tape for ducts, for sure. > > Rinaldi https://www.jnj.com/our-heritage/vesta-stoudt-the-woman-who-invented-duct- tape Taping ducts came later. Supposedly in the early 20th century there was a tape made from cotton duck. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_duck