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One particular project was to create a boat made of just cardboard and duct-tape and eventually sail the boat across the school’s pool.
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International: Obama Seeks To Cut Vocational Education -- What Does That Mean? Youth Radio -- Youth Media International 2011
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One guy bought a $400 Chery Bomb muffler and decided that his cheap duct-tape would hold it in place, of course that plan failed and his new muffler got ran over on his way home.
Projects You Shouldn’t Try To DIY | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Most disturbing, 911 services are technologically bankrupt, held together by duct-tape and workarounds.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: 911 Is a Joke (Because It's Broke) The Media Consortium 2011
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One particular project was to create a boat made of just cardboard and duct-tape and eventually sail the boat across the school’s pool.
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International: Obama Seeks To Cut Vocational Education -- What Does That Mean? Youth Radio -- Youth Media International 2011
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Most disturbing, 911 services are technologically bankrupt, held together by duct-tape and workarounds.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: 911 Is a Joke (Because It's Broke) The Media Consortium 2011
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I duct-tape the lid on securely and check it as baggage.
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Forget baby-sitters … their mothers should duct-tape them to the wall.
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Or rulers with a rubber band ball wrapped in duct-tape and used as a crappy maces.
Think Progress » Beck: The Census Is The Government’s Attempt To ‘Increase Slavery’ 2010
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I duct-tape the lid on securely and check it as baggage.
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To Brad, I was just Julia, the woman who raced around like a maniac with a clipboard, growing more and more frantic as the time for the wedding or party approached, and then, like an actor walking out onto a stage, morphed into someone else entirely, someone calm and smiling, who could fill in for a missing bartender and mix cosmopolitans, or expertly duct-tape a wobbly table leg.
Skipping a Beat Sarah Pekkanen 2011
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