This message is a bit late because I was distracted getting ready to
leave for two days two hours from now, and didn't notice that it hadn't
been sent.
Avital wrote:
And can someone please tell me what WD-40 is?
A brand name for a cleaning agent which comes in a spray can, with a
plastic straw you can fit into the nozzle for getting into tight places
-- or for getting rain off your bicycle chain without getting any WD-40
on your rims. It leaves a film of oil to keep the cleaned object from
rusting (which is why you don't want to get it on your rims). As a side
effect, it can be used for light lubrication.
A joke akin to the one about women being able to fix anything with a
hairpin -- I'm the only woman I know who still knows what a hairpin
*is*, so I'm dating myself here -- says that all you need to repair any
problem is WD-40 and duct tape. If if moves and shouldn't, you use the
duct tape -- if it should move and doesn't, you use the WD-40.
It's not *entirely* a joke. But don't use duct tape to attach an
injured person to a stretcher -- or at least stick it only to things
that can be peeled off him.
Can we start an "all you need" cascade? In EMT class, I learned that
all you need to deal with a major disaster is stacks and stacks of
backboards and a bunch of triangular bandages folded into cravats.
(This was *not* a joke.)
Nurses are said to repair everything with cardboard and surgical tape.
Chemistry students know that all you need is sealing wax and string.
I tend to do everything with knitting needles.
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