Close to Home by John McPherson for May 15, 2020

Any handyman wouldn’t be caught dead without a roll of duct tape in his tool box.

Product placement

I think Red Green is probably their best customer !

I’m feeling slow today because I don’t understand this one. Can’t tell what the blue thing is hanging on (stuck to?) the sign and not sure what the computer salesman has to do with it. But I find both duct tape and gorilla tape to have their uses — and haven’t been without a can of WD-40 in my toolbox since 1979.

Shows confidence in their product!

Great advertising gimmick. Salesman should be selling "duct"less heaters.

As a kid, I thought it was DUCK tape. Didn’t seem to square with how it was used.

If it can’t be fixed, duct tape it. It still isn’t fixed but you can use it.

Colorist screwed up – that should be gray tape. Looks like a pair of jeans wrapped around the sign

good advertising

They may well need new computers if they’ve been repairing theirs with duct tape.

Ask for Bleeb

Is it supposed to move and doesn’t…WD40. Is it not supposed to move but does…duct tape. I’m sure Red and Harold are still driving that duct tape car…’cause let’s face it…once you fix it with duct tape, it’s fixed! Now…let’s talk about bailing wire!

They stand behind their product…and sometimes beneath it.

Actually a pretty darn good selling point!

This could get sticky.

Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and it has a dark side and it holds the Universe together.

I read the plant logbook one morning and found that the operator shut down to clean the ‘ducks’.

The one problem is that even duct tape can’t fix stupid, but it can muffle the sound.