Yeah, the REAL duct tape is... indestructible, almost. The sticky goo never goes away, either. If ya want a job bodged right, use duct tape! Airplane wings, submarine fittings... every home and car must have it. Duct tape is in the industrial supply department.

Duck tape, on the other hand, is the lighter stuff sold in the housewares section, and comes in all sorts of pretty colors, like the oilcloth for covering tables used to be available by the foot on a roll at the ten-cent store. It was called simply Cloth Tape. But now it's called duck tape, and one of the colors is a silver meant to make you take it for DUCT tape, and the rolls are big and look a lot like duct tape, how they package it. It's covered in shrink-wrap plastic so you can't feel the texture, and duct tape has a whole different feel.

Duck tape is good for small projects but it won't float your boat.

So..... jury-rigged, anyone? Our kids moved out and took all the damn dictionaries...

~S~