Duct-Tape man rides again

Published on September 12, 2005 By dharmagrl In Current Events

R.David Paulison is the man tipped to replace Mike Brown as the head of FEMA.

Paulison is probably best remembered as telling Americans (along with Homeland Security Tom Ridge) that their "survival" kt should include plastic sheeting and duct tape.

He's a career firefighter - definitely a step-up from a horse judge, and he's head of FEMA's emergency preparedness division, so he knows the in's and out's of the agency.

Hopefully he'll do a beter job than "Brownie".

I wonder what "Bushie" is going to call him - "Tapie"?

Comments (Page 1)

dabe

on Sep 12, 2005

Paulison is probably best remembered as telling Americans (along with Homeland Security Tom Ridge) that their "survival" kt should include plastic sheeting and duct tape.

I had no idea. This is funny. The late night comedians are going to have a field day with this.

Spc Nobody Special

on Sep 12, 2005

I had no idea. This is funny.

Why? Mine does. You can do anything with 100 mph tape and 550 cord. Hell, add a paperclip and you can be McGuyver.

HC1240

on Sep 12, 2005

Hell, add a paperclip and you can be McGuyver.

Aaaaaaaack! That's what I was gonna say he should call him. McGuyver.

... had a poster of him up in my room as a teenager (Richard Dean Anderson, not Paulison...rofl). It was stuck to the wall with... what else? Silver duct tape.

kingbee

on Sep 13, 2005

i've frequently advocated webbing the west coast with duct tape as a kinda 'starwars smi meets ratpaper'.

drmiler

on Sep 13, 2005

I had no idea. This is funny.

Why? Mine does. You can do anything with 100 mph tape and 550 cord. Hell, add a paperclip and you can be McGuyver.

Don't forget.....he's GOT TO have a swiss army knife too!

Gideon MacLeish

on Sep 13, 2005

Why? Mine does. You can do anything with 100 mph tape and 550 cord. Hell, add a paperclip and you can be McGuyver.

good to hear from another fellow fan of duct tape.

Demosthenes Locke

on Sep 13, 2005

I kept a boat from sinking by repairing the hull with duct tape, all while on the water. That stuff should not only be part of a survival kit, but should be carried around at all times, just in case.

Spc Nobody Special

on Sep 13, 2005

I kept a boat from sinking by repairing the hull with duct tape, all while on the water

Know where hundred mph tape got it's name? They used to use it to patch bullet holes in helicopter rotors in Nam. Crazy, huh?

Demosthenes Locke

on Sep 13, 2005

Wow that's intense. Is there a duct tape day? If not, I nominate October 1.

Dr Guy

on Sep 13, 2005

Duct tape = you can fix damn near anything that's broken.

Anything that moves and is not supposed to. For that which does not move and is supposed to, use wd40.

Zoomba

on Sep 13, 2005

The problem with the duct tape thing was how it was delivered... It was made to sound like using the two, you would save the lives of you and loved ones from a biological attack. Panic ensued and people went a little stupid in a rush to get the items. It was down-right comical how it was presented and how people took it. In the event of a biological attack, that shit won't do anything for you. At best you can suffocate yourself before the germs get you

And the MacGuyver kit would be:
-Duct Tape
-Swiss Army Knife
-Paper Clip
-Twine

Using those four items and any common household good on hand you can fashion:
-A rube goldberg device to fetch a door key from across the room while tied to a chair
-Fashion a small nuclear device
-Build a water filtration system capable of supplying clean water to 10,000 starving africans
-Defeat the evil, villianous Murdock

dharmagrl

on Sep 13, 2005

This is funny. The late night comedians are going to have a field day with this

I know.......I'm interested to see what Letterman makes of it.

Why? Mine does. You can do anything with 100 mph tape and 550 cord. Hell, add a paperclip and you can be McGuyver

I'm not saying that it's not a good thing to have around because it is, I'm just saying that the new head of FEMA is the dude who told us all to get duct tape and caused a panic where stores sold out of the darn stuff.

i've frequently advocated webbing the west coast with duct tape as a kinda 'starwars smi meets ratpaper'.

hehehehe...kindbee, you really should do stand up.

Sounds like a good start for any emergency kit to me. Get warm and dry and start fixing crap. At least you'll have something to do

Like I said, I'm not knocking duct tape.

That stuff should not only be part of a survival kit, but should be carried around at all times, just in case.

I have a rolls at home, in the car, and in our camping kit too.

Is there a duct tape day? If not, I nominate October 1

I'll second that.

EXACTLY!!!! Thay made it sound like this stuff was CRUCIAL to survival and that if you didn't have it....well, the consequences didn't bear thinking about.

Trudygolightly

on Sep 13, 2005

My son used silver duck tape to hold up the window on the drivers' side of the car.
Hey, anyone got any spare duck tape? My glasses need ajusting..and won't stay on.

Spc Nobody Special

on Sep 13, 2005

For that which does not move and is supposed to, use wd40.

An important exception to this is not to add WD-40 to your crankcase.

Dr Guy

on Sep 13, 2005

Hey, anyone got any spare duck tape? My glasses need ajusting..and won't stay on.

Dont do that! You are not a nerd!

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