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[simont]

I'm about to express an opinion which may be controversial. In fact, hell, never mind controversial, it may very well be an opinion that would get me burned at the stake in certain sections of society.

There exists at least one mechanical problem to which gaffer tape is not the right answer.

Sorry an' all, and I know that's almost an article of faith to some people, but.

(My car key has fallen apart again. Next stop, I think, superglue.)

Comments

[mpinna.livejournal.com]

lalalalala, I can't hear you.

[angua.livejournal.com]

Lies! It can't be true!

Please don't tell me if it is.. *sob*

[atreic.livejournal.com]

gaffer tape may occasionally not be a complete and elegant solution, but it is quite often a good numerical hack...

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

No, no; you're looking at it the wrong way, and so asking the rong question.

Truly following the Way of Gaffer, after failing to fix they key, you should be looking for a way of bodging it, using The Holy Tape, which obviates the need for the broken key...

[naranek.livejournal.com]

If gaffer tape is not the answer, you haven't asked the right question.

[ceb.livejournal.com]

It stillis the right answer, you're just not doing it properly ;-P ;-)

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

I'd use epoxy instead of cyano. Cyano's brittle, as any miniatures wargamer will tell you :)

[claroscuro.livejournal.com]

*Boggles*

Amen to what all those other good people said! Not fix-able by gaffer tape? *shakes head* no such thing. Yea, it is an article of faith to so many of us... It might not be safe, it might not be pretty, but it will always work...

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[aquarionical.livejournal.com]

You haven't used enough gaffer tape.

There is no other explaination.

You can fix *anything* with Gaffertape. Up to and including creating an entire new universe out of it where your problem did not need to be fixed, at which point the gaffertapiverse will collapse in on itself, leaving a perfect and whole universe where your problem has gone away.

Gaffer tape is the past, the future, the only.

Apart from duct tape, of course.

Blasphemy!

[benparker.livejournal.com]

If you said that backstage in a theatre you would be hanged from the grid. With Gaffer tape.

[hederaivy.livejournal.com]

What's gaffer tape?

it might be time to drop by a dealership and let them cut you a new key from the key code that should be somewhere on the key, or searchable based on the serial number of the auto.

sometimes, you just have to start from scratch.