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The Weather Channel recently published a story about the value of duct tape in keeping out flood water: " Duct tape kept out more flood water than sandbags in laboratory tests ". Its newletter advertised that story as "A victory for dads everywhere":

The Wikipedia article on duct tape tells us about the history, in which the name for cotton duck came from Dutch doek meaning "cloth", and "duck tape" was originally a tape with "a rubber-based adhesive applied to a durable duck cloth backing", later perhaps reinterpreted as a tape used to seal heating and cooling ducts.…