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This weekend I have to buy yellow, white, and black duct tape. Lots of it.
Where do you get colored duct tape? I bought huge amounts of the silver stuff at a warehouse store a couple years back, and haven't had to shop for it since.
("Hey! There's a 6 pack of duct tape! That looks useful!" About a month later... "Hey! There's a 6 pack of duct tape! I bet that would be handy to have around!)
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Try online. I know there are places that sell every color imaginable, but I've never actually found one.
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Online takes too long, I need it by Sunday.
I'll try Staples, Home Depot, and if I can't possibly avoid it I suppose I'll go to WalMart. At least it's not my money. But it still means I have to step foot in the place. *shudder*
Oh, hey, while I have all you helpful people around, how about suggestions for music about racing, too? I'm talking car racing type of stuff... not necessarily formal racing, but driving fast.
*shamelessly uses the Hatrack Knowledge Base to do my work for me*
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Who are you planning to duct tape? What are you planning to duct tape them to? What are you planning to do with them once you've duct taped them to the chair, floor, table, or whatever? Posts: 4569 | Registered: Dec 2003
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I3: Call it a CD's worth. 10 - 15 songs, maybe. Less would probably be okay, if I can't come up with good ones.
Derrell: Actually, I'm going to be taping road markings all over the floor of my office. White border lines, yellow solid and dotted lines down the middle, that sort of thing. We're pretty spread out over two floors, so I imagine it's going to take some time. I'm quite sure the building manager isn't going to be happy with me, but I'm going with the "forgiveness rather than permission" mindset and doing it anyway.
Added: dpr, that's the only one I'd thought of already! How funny.
Edit: It has to stay on for awhile, so come off the carpet easier is not my primary concern. I don't want it scuffing up when people walk on it and starting to look awful immediately. But thanks.
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Sure, take all the fun out of it. I had visions of you duct taping a coworker to a chair and torturing them or spanking them I was going to volunteer to be next for the spanking. I'm heartbroken. Posts: 4569 | Registered: Dec 2003
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Ooops. Yeah, I need a lot of it, and I also need to pay with my corporate credit card. So thanks, but I'll have to decline your generous implied offer.
Besides, I fully intend to take an extended lunch and shopping trip tomorrow. So no worries. Fridays are great days for shopping on the company dime.
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Eljay, call Grainger or any local industrial supply company. Duct tape is almost certainly one of their top products and they will carry it in a number of colors.
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Well, there's always "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena" by Jan and Dean. Okay, it's not really racing, but "She drives real fast and she drives real hard She's the terror of Colorado Boulevard."
That's one of the few "surfer" songs I actually enjoy.
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Hot Rod Lincoln - George Thorogood or Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen GTO, Shut Down, et. all - Beach Boys Dead Man's Curve - Jan & Dean Jerry was a Race Car Driver - Primus East Bound and Down (Smokey and The Bandit Theme)- Jerry Reed Beep, Beep Song - ?
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I adore that my boss is about to pay my iTMS bill! It's the little things in life that make a girl happy.
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Looks like it's gonna hafta be WalMart... Ace has all the colors, but in 15 foot rolls for $3. Seems a little pricy. How am I supposed to put down a race track at those rates?
Maybe I'll just paint it on the carpet...
And more great songs! Yay!
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Yep. But they don't have white, anyway, and my price was only a couple cents a roll more than that. I just bought a LOT. Plus I needed it tonight, so I couldn't really order on-line.
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"The land where large fuzzy dice still hang proudly Like testicles from rear view mirrors" - one of my favorite song lyrics! (from Cake's Race Car Ya Yas)
Not necessarily a racing song, but dang funny is Smashmouth's Road Man.
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Okay, here's my song list at this point. I'm visiting iTMS and narrowing it down tonight:
Gonna Buy Me a Mercury Carwash 409 Little Nash Rambler Stick shifts and Safety belts 240 DL I Can't Drive 55 Race Car Ya-Yas RPM The Distance Jerry Was a Race Car Driver The Little Old Lady From Pasadena Greased Lightning Hot Rod Lincoln GTO Dead Man's Curve East Bound and Down (Smokey & The Bandit Theme) Go Speed Racer technomix Little Deuce Coupe Baby You Can Drive My Car Open Road Song Born to be Wild
With that long a list, I'm pretty sure I'll be able to find a good CD's worth.
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May I add that "Stick Shifts and Safety Belts", while not a race song or what is usually my "type" of music, is a wonderful song, and is, in fact, my husband's and my "our song"?
If you play it, think of us.
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I added that one. I know it's not a race song, but I love it. It will probably not make the final cut. But I don't care, 'cause I listen to it all the time, anyway.
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There's always George Harrison's Faster, from his self titled solo album. Starts with race car sounds and everything (really. It would be a much better song without them, but there they are).
I'm listening to it as I type this actually.
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Stick Shifts and Safety Belts has been going through my head for the last hour, now. And I don't have it at work today so I can just lsiten to it and make it go away.
I like it, but not that much.
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Boy, I'm glad some woman in the promotions department in Denver had this brilliant idea. Crawling around on the floor laying out duct tape roads is an excellent use of my time.
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As loathe as I am to revisit my country days, Kathy Mattea's 455 Rocket is a swinging, soulful tune. Look it up.
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