Imagine duct tape. Take off the shiny so it's an easy-to-rip cloth tape. It's called Gaff Tape, and it's THE go-to tape in this troper's Drama department. A flat broke? Gaff Tape. Loose wires? Gaff Tape. Want to spell something out in big letters? Gaff Tape.

The unofficial motto for this troper's boy scout troop is "Duct tape fixes everything." Yes, we have fixed a tire with duct tape.

This troper held his last laptop together with duct tape (casing came apart)

I've done the same thing

This troper's done something similar with regular tape and a laptop battery.

This troper has attached a door handle back on her car, patched a hole in her riding boot, temporarily repaired a fence post, and secured her window air conditioner with the help of duct tape and not much else. I keep a roll of it in my car at all times, and two more in the garage/house.

This troper once managed to successfully repair a broken printed circuit board with the stuff. Seriously. I did it as a joke, and was surprised as all hell when it actually worked. To this day, I've never quite figured out how I did it, though I do have a few working theories. I've never had it happen again, but really, I don't try very often.

This troper used to buy supercheap canvas shoes and triple or quadruple their usable life by applying duct tape whenever they started to fall apart. That left me more money to buy [=DVDs=], such as ''FromDuskTillDawn'', in which Richie bandages his wounded hand '''with duct tape'''.

My father actually did this. He was out clearing a path through the woods with a machete he made from a ''lawn mower blade''. Guess what his nickname is. The blade bounced off a tree and hit the meat of his thumb, splitting his hand open. Any sane person would try and bandage it up as best they could and get to the hospital to have it stitched up, but no. Not my dad. He uses duct tape and medical cotton to ''tape up his hand'' and ''keeps on going''. Yeah. He laughs about it today.

I'll try to guess his nickname: "Lefty"?

(Is assuming the dad is right-handed) How do you hit the hand you're using?

Sling Blade?

Lawn mower blades have two sharp ends. Long as you don't hit something too hard, it should work, although it's an accident waiting to happen...

This troper is currently on the tech crew for high school plays and I can honestly say that we use duct tape and gaffer tape (which can be described as super duct tape) for pretty much everything. And I do mean everything.

I think that ^^^ might actually be me. On our crew, the standard response to anything is "Gaff tape." Bandages, holding lights in place, covering paint splotches on stage, attaching a mic to an actor...

The liberal use of duct tape was a Running Gag in this troper's high school theatre productions - such that the technical crew members would distinguish themselves from stagehands by applying a strip of duct tape somewhere easily visible on their clothing.

Ask my dad. He's practically Red Green. We have duct tape keeping our screen in the screen door. God, as if we weren't rednecks enough...

TroperTales: I own a hat (vaguely resembling a fedora) which I made from one.

Abbey? Is that you?

I always carry a roll with me as well. It's part of my Macgyver Kit.

TroperTales: In high school one of my friends once volunteered to let a bunch of girls hog-tie him with duct tape. He got rather uncomfortable with the situation when he found he couldn't get out of it. Don't ask my why this occurred, I don't know.

TroperTales: this troper has heard from a reliable source that when in the middle of nowhere, the source's rear axle on his car broke. The source then used three or four rolls of '''duct tape''' to '''hold the axle together long enough for the car to reach the next town.'''

This troper's chemistry binder broke...and the boy across from her pulled a roll of duct tape out of his bag. End result, her whole class went around with duct-tape binders for ''months''. Also, she knows a girl who participated in the duct-tape prom-dress challenge.

The most terrifying thing this troper has ever seen was a maintenence worker walking quickly down a hall, carrying nothing but several rolls of duct tape, with a ''very'' serious expression on his face. At a hospital. That he was a patient at.

This Troper has used gaffer AND duct tape to temporarily bandage cuts and scrapes while working on a show. Including a bad scrape incurred from crawling under a riser to retrieve a roll of gaffer tape.

Someone at my school once made shoes out of duct tape and wore them all week. It was disgusting how dirty they got.

I met a guy on a fencing course whose entire kit was held together with duct tape. Halfway through the week, the sole of his only pair of shoes fell off. Duct tape.

This Troper once used duct tape to cover one of his textbooks and chrome automotive duct tape to cover another. Both took serious abuse but showed no damage when the cover was removed.(The tape was doubled over so there was no adhesive touching the books.)

This troper had an inversion with Ryan, a techie on his production of ''Annie''. Ryan was addicted to duct tape, but rather than using it to fix up everything that broke during the production, he would damage stuff with it, including sticking electrical tape on people (the most expensive brand in the closet) and leaving it littered on the floor, putting strips of Glo-Tape on the props so they had glowing outlines when the lights were off, taping up the sound crew's lamp head to keep light from shining through the casing and disturbing the audience (the tape melted to the plastic lamp head and required replacement, as well as burning the tech head's hand when he tried to remove it), and finally getting caught in the middle of covering a stool with tape just because it was there. Of course, he continued his problems by stealing partially-used batteries from the microphone packs and never being around to pull the mid-curtain, but that's a tale for another time.

... Why did this guy even have a job? Was he a Bunny Ears Techie, so good at his job that his quirks were ignored? Or was the theater just that desperate for techies?

This troper has an old Super Soaker held together with duct tape. He also taped a wadded-up tissue to his hand over a blister because regular band-aids kept falling off (although eventually I just used a bigger regular band-aid and that worked).

This troper fashioned two belt loops from duct tape and stuck them to the nylon sheath to carry his knife sideways on his belt.

After a crash which damaged my motorcycle, I managed to tape the lights, fairings and exhaust back together well enough to ride home safely. Also used it to seal cuts until they could be properly bandaged. Duct tape goes everywhere with me.

When this troper worked at his university theater, a coworker lectured me on the virtues of duct tape. Apparently, said coworker, who had long, narrow feet that were difficult to find shoes for, was in a play. Naturally, the costume designer couldn't find shoes for him, and since this was ''Man of La Mancha'', his own shoes weren't appropriate to the setting. Duct tape shoes, on the other hand, apparently were.

Example and subversion: When this troper and her middle school friend were building any sort of collaberative project, one could tell who built what parts - the friend used duct tape for ''everything'', this troper used hot glue for ''everything''. If something broke? Duct tape or hot glue, respectively.

This troper has, however, used duct tape as an impromptu archery glove to keep the feathers from shredding her hand.

This troper now keeps a roll of duct tape in her pencil case. She's also made a facebook group with the trope name.

This troper tends to use electrical tape for everything, due to the lack of sticky residue. He did, however, attempt to fix the rearview mirror in his mother's car with duct tape and superglue. (It failed.)

During a school camping trip in middle school, the thing that held the tent poles together was lost. A teacher and I became the heroes when he fashioned a new one out of a stick and duct tape, the tape was provided by me.

This troper did something similar on a recent camping trip, although the poles were just odds and ends of some old folding washing lines. They survived better than the poles made of old shower-door surrounds (which tended to fold in high wind).

This troper once walked to his cousin's house with prank materials in hand when I suddenly had this urge to jump across this ditch that was on the way. Cue my right shoe's sole undoing the front half upon landing. It was a good thing my plans involved duct tape or I'd have been walking funny the rest of the way.

This troper Made Shoes out of duct tape, and wore them to school. want pics? Here ya go! ^_^ -wobbles- They were pretty durable, although they make your feet sweat really fast.

This Troper was declared Dr. Duct-tape after his successful reconstruction of a ''Futon'' using nothing but duct tape, it held for six months before a friend sat on it a little ''too'' hard.

While in the process of moving, This Troper accidentally slashed his wrist open and looked for a way to patch it up. According to what his mother heard, and from the ensuing week that followed, duct tape can be VERY handy if you're lacking stitches.

I can support that claim too, having used duct tape on wounds sustained in places where bandages aren't readily available. But its brilliance at staunching wounds is somewhat undermined by its complete lack of sterility. As a result, it's best to use it as a way of patching yourself up until you can get medical attention.

Finns don't call it Jesustape for nothing.

This troper had to rely duct tape to hold his German Army boot together which was in the process of losing its sole during a heavy metal open air festival. Bring duct tape with you when visiting a festival, you'll earn a lot of favours (as well as copious amounts of beer) from your fellow campers.

This troper can attest to the effectiveness of that. A friend once broke his sandal on the first day of a two-week camping trip, and held his shoes together with duct tape for the rest of the trip. Granted, he did go barefoot for the entirety of the last two days, but that was his choice. The shoes did not break.

In 8th grade, this troper had to design and build a catapult for science class. The catapult made it to the finals, but the ring that attached the big-ass spring to the catapult's arm broke loose and was destroyed, rendering the device incapable of firing. Guess what this troper used to reattach the spring?

An oft-retold story belonging to this troper's former camp bunkmate partially subverts this by showing that even such a universally useful item can be bungled. #QUOTE#"Duct tape is good for ''fixing things''! Whoever did the duct tape job on the tent ''needs to go sit in the corner''!"

What did they do? Tape the "door" shut?

This troper's grandfather enjoyed woodworking. One day while planing some boards for a new cabinet, he sliced his finger in half along the length. He DUCT TAPED it back together, and six weeks later his finger was fine. Never went to the doctor.

What! *Boom*

Never underestimate the human HealingFactor

BadassGrandpa for the win!

Obligatory Band Camp example: this troper has seen duct tape (along with Saran Wrap) used for taping absolutely ''everything'' to ''everything''. Sleeping people to their bunks? Check. Trousers to the ceiling? Check. Bundling everything a roommate owned into his suitcase, securing it to his mattress with duct tape, and then using copious amounts of duct tape, Saran wrap, parachute cord, and the combined skills of two Eagle Scouts, to hoist everything - including the mattress - onto the rafters, whereupon everything was layered again with Saran wrap and duct tape? ''Oh hell yes, check!''

This troper's old roommate is Mr. Duct Tape. If there's even a minor chance it can be used, he's using it. Wrapping presents? Use three rolls! Couch falling apart? Another 4 rolls! Need a last-minute gift for somebody? It comes in multiple colors now!

When some idiot left a gardening tool of some sort in the street, this troper saw it too late to avoid, and it punched a hole in the oil pan of his car. He patched the hole with duct tape, added a can of oil to replace ''some'' of what'd been lost, and drove to a shop for proper repairs. The mechanics said the duct-tape patch was so good, the car could've lasted for some time as it was.

Da_Nuke ''always, always'' carries around a knife to cut what must be in two pieces, and duct tape to hold what must be in one piece. Last time he used duct tape was to hold a falling panel in his old car while on the way to the repair shop.

I've seen photo essays and instructions of how to make a wallet out of duct tape. Only recently did I actually SEE ONE IN PERSON! The guy said someone made that for him back when he was ten years old (and he looked to be late teens now, well past old enough to drive.)

A friend of this troper had her shoe fall apart. Guess what we fixed it with? To this day, the legend of 'Grace's Space Shoe' lives on...

Due to being a broke college student, this troper has resorted to the same thing. I have a pair of sandals that are almost fifty-percent bright pink duct tape.

This troper's final physics project was to build a boat of cardboard and duct tape. She is proud that her boat for her and her friend took over a minute for eight guys on the Lacrosse team to sink in the demolition derby. She still has her '{{Badass}} Nordic Paddle' as her parents have encouraged her to take it to college for a dorm decoration. On a related note she now wears duct tape as a bracelet or other accessory, she's fixed her laptop, and her mom's pants with it thus far.

this troper has always wanted to make a boat out of duct tape ever since he say the mythbusters do it.

My dad worked as a building maintenance supervisor for a complex which included an older, somewhat decaying building (though no one who visited could've known). He joked around that everything behind the scenes (plumbing, duct work, steam pipes, etc.) was held together with duct tape. But in all seriousness, he had a deep affection for duct that that resulted in his leaving us (my mom and I) several rolls of the stuff after he passed away. It's been seven years now and we're still working our way through the stash.

This Troper is currently working on a way to make plausible duct tape armor. The prototype is resistant to blades, blunt force, and ,theoretically, low-caliber bullets.

This troper subverted this; she noticed that her DSLite casing was cracked near the hinge, so she sealed it with duct tape. It held for a while, but eventually failed, and she replaced the duct tape many times as the crack got bigger and bigger until a chip finally fell off. By this point, this troper had given up on using duct tape so she just threw the chip away and played the DS as it was.

One of this Troper's friends has a T-shirt with a picture of a roll of duct tape and the caption "Ductapo Ergo Sum" (CanisLatinicus for "I duct tape, therefore I am).

Tired of carrying my Nerf arsenal by hand, this troper built a holster and a sheath mostly from the wire from a spiral notebook and lots of duct tape.

This Troper knows a guy who once made out of duct tape a wallet and a trenchcoat a couple years back. Neither are still in his possession as far this troper knows.

Saw a car this morning with its front windshield, right mirror, and fender all held in place with duct tape.

This troper's school theatre has a tradition of duct-taping a freshman in the cast to the wall at the beginning of the play and timing how long it takes for them to fall off.

This troper is writing what can essentially be called an original CrackFic, in which the heroes and villains come with a few absurd powers and themes. In their world, the most powerful force in the world (besides Jesus, of course) ''is'' duct tape. Or at least, that's what everyone thinks. There are bad guys who have duct tape as their power, actually. #QUOTE#'''Josh''': Man, how come we can't have kickass powers like that? #QUOTE#'''David''': Because the author sucks, that's why!

Needless to say, there have been some, well, creative uses for this power: #QUOTE#'''Julia''': It's a bra! It's a rope! No, it's frickin' trying to molest me!

This Troper has a wallet that's been in his possession for around ten years, has been lost twice, run over three times, and generally mistreated. It is now more than 50% Duct Tape. My bag also had several gashes and tears in it that were simply taped over and is now 20% tape. It will eventually devolve into having all my possessions taped over.

this troper always has duct tape with him at all times. if he's not able to carry a full roll he'll carry several meters wrapped around a pen. and has used it for everything from emergency repairs for tools to emergency first aid (after slicing his hand open ripping apart an old computer learning to NEVER GRAB A WIRE FIXED TO THE CASE AND JUST PULL!)

In physics class we had to build homes to withstand hurricane conditions. I went out and built a dome out of popsicle sticks. I had to wrap it in something so I wrapped it in duct tape. It would've won had I remembered to include a bottom. It was supposed to stay in place for eight seconds I only reached seven.

This troper made a case for her 3DS out of duct tape and cardboard at summer camp, because she was worried about the other kids in the dorm damaging it accidentally. It survived a twelve-year-old falling on it.