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Matt Attallah
19-02-2002, 21:26
I want to know the weirdest thing you have seen/done with duck tape. As you all know, i think duck tape is the greatest invention on this earth. It is even better than the Segway :p. I have only seen the basics, wallets or clothes, but i want to know the weirdest use for Duck Tape!! I know there are stories out there, so I wanna hear them!!
P.S. All you people, please get voting on my Poll!! I wanna know what the majority of you all think!!!
P.P.S.S. If you are from the duck tape brand lawyer, and you are reading this, know i didn't do it. You caused it. Your fumes from the glue made me crazy!
i' ve seen really well made duct tape whips. the person that made them even went through the trouble of having the handle and the whip part evenly weighted for balance purposes. it was pretty neat, and quite painful too.
ECarlson
19-02-2002, 22:00
Sorry, Heidi won't let me post that.
My second year on a FIRST team. One particularly irritating young member of the team (c'mon admit it - we all know a few of them!) pushed a few of the older student members one step too far.
Skip forward thirty minutes. Someone speaks up and says "has anyone seen Carl recently?"
We found him in the next room, Duct Taped to a structural support pillar eight feet off the floor, very calmly just waiting to be cut down. From then on he was a model team member, with an uncanny ability to discern when something might go "over the line."
Before you ask, I disavow all direct knowledge of how this incident took place or who was directly involved... ;)
- dave
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one of the last things any man would say: "that Barry Manilow is one cool dude"
MissInformation
20-02-2002, 10:25
I am not going to talk about duct tape clothing, I am not going to talk about duct tape clothing, I am...except to say I know the best thing to get duct tape residue off of skin, and it's not peanut butter.
The oddest? A friend in college let us duct tape his sort of longish hair into spikes for no reason whatsoever. Since Garret county still had some kind of a dry county law in affect, we headed over the boarder to West Virginia and went to some hick bar and scared the bejeezus out of the local bumpkins there.
Oh, trying to get the duct tape out of his hair was too painful, so he ended up with a very, very short haircut. Which made his parents very happy.
MissInformation
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It's confirmed: my mind isn't twisted, it's actually sprained.
Dave_222
20-02-2002, 13:04
1 roll of tape a dozen doughnuts and 3 golfballs use your imagination.
Well, Virginia Tech has an Engineering Olympics where one of the competitions is to Duck Tape up someone to the side of a wall and see who can get that person to get stuck up for the longest. Otherwise, the duck tape prom contest is the weirdest thing. Like I said once before, I have pictures.
Mike Bulzomi
24-02-2002, 00:26
i haven't seen this.. i've heard it.
one of my friends sings a song who's first verse is about duct tape and how it holds the world together. then there's stuff about zip ties, trantorques, etc.
Joe Matt
24-02-2002, 16:28
I saw a thing that a couple got married wearing a duct tape suite (tie, shirt, jacket, slacks) and a duct tape dress (a small one, not a flowing one). I think someone should make a PR duct tape. You know, but your logo on it or something like that and watch it up on all sorts of things.
AntiCrombieDuck
24-02-2002, 17:37
duct tape holds my paintball gun 2gether lol
Hee hee duct tape + FIRST members = FUN!!!
Ok, odd duct tape uses? I could probably sit and list them for hours. (I didn't get my nickname for nothing! :D)
Well, one of our adults, another team member, and I were invited to a engineering dinner to show off our robot. By the time we finally got through the foodline, there weren't any open tables, so we were trying to eat off the cart, but our plates kept sliding. So we peeled some duct tape (placed there for unknown reasons) off the cart and used it to duct tape our plates to the cart so we could eat.
My fav. duct tape creation is my lovely duct tape purse. It's completely duct tape, not one of those cheesy ones, which is really an old purse underneath. I also made a duct tape duck. It's really cute, about the size of a softball. (I was bored!)
Anywho... everyone needs to get a 365 days of Duct Tape calander. They're the best!
-Ducky-
I made a duct tape bikini, completely out of duct tape, not the fake just cover stuff kind. I did get some weird tan lines though. I'll see if I can find the pictures.
asher
Where is the picture?
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Ok, its there now. All I have to say is, foolish foolish people, sleeping near robotics types.
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Caroline
28-02-2002, 00:27
the last night before shipping a few team members fell asleep on the floor. take a look at the picture, and you'll *hopfully* get the idea...
let's just say he wasn't about to get up too quickly after this incident...
http://www.payouthcouncil.com/grtpictures/alexducttape3.jpg
AntiCrombieDuck
28-02-2002, 19:30
nice
Stephanie
28-02-2002, 20:33
hahaha, i love it :) we should do that, 'cept, i don't think i've ever seen n e one fall asleep at robotics like that...heh
Asher, didn't it hurt to take off the duct tape bikini? and didn't you have adhesive all over yourself?
I would hope for Asher's sake that she doubled over the duct tape. That would hurt and un-measurable amount...
gniticxe
28-02-2002, 21:56
I can't find the picture anywhere, but as some sort of fundraiser, my school allowed students to purchase 2' long pieces of duct tape (all the money went to a good cause). Well, these pieces were used to tape the academic dean up to a wall. He stood on a small crate while we started putting the tape on, then once satisfied, we took it out from under him. He stayed up about a foot off the ground. good times, good times.
HAHAHHAAHA, I'm not blond! I made the bikini so you only had to tie it on, no taping required. :)
asher
(I don't think the pictures are particularly appropriate for the forums, although cute, I get too many guys following me around without it, sorry boys :()
Originally posted by asher
HAHAHHAAHA, I'm not blond! I made the bikini so you only had to tie it on, no taping required. :)
asher
(I don't think the pictures are particularly appropriate for the forums, although cute, I get too many guys following me around without it, sorry boys :()
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Sorry Jeff. You're a true blonde.
And I did the duct tape bikini thing too... it was rather uncomfortable...
I also made duct tape wings..
and a Duct tape skirt that is now quite famous.
And at a conference I went to alot of people made things out of duct tape..
a duct tape back back
crown
whip (the same one Gildorr was talking about)
etc. etc.
AntiCrombieDuck
01-03-2002, 15:43
come on more pics! there funny pleez!
heh, those pictures of the person duct taped in the sleeping bag reminded me of some similair fun i once had duct taped in a sleeping bag, the difference is that i was conscious when they did it, and stayed in it for about 6 hours. here' s a pic of when it first happened http://www.yruu.net/cons/conviviality/Dsc00484.jpg and here' s one from later, after they decided it would be funny to put make-up on me http://www.yruu.net/cons/conviviality/Dsc00511.jpg
AntiCrombieDuck
04-03-2002, 15:02
there are alot of pictures like that at http://www.collegehumor.com/
verry funny site!
On every flight of the Space Shuttle, the crew takes along a roll of duct tape (on some flights it is actually stored as a pile of one-meter strips of tape, on others it is a full roll). Over the years, it has been used for all sorts of things, ranging from replacing velcro to taping down food trays to making a big "fly swatter" to help repair an errant satellite.
But possibly the best use of the amazing grey tape was the "fender" made out of maps, paper clamps and duct tape by the Apollo 17 astronauts for the Lunar Rover. They needed something to keep the lunar dust (known as "regolith") from being kicked all over them as they drove across the surface of the Moon, after the original fender was damaged. You can see it here (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap011110.html).
- dave
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Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
I wonder if any one did a similar design with their wheels...
Or, atleast the tread design.
Skabana159
10-03-2002, 21:24
I've got a good one. This year, one of our engineers found a big box of REALLY cheap soccer balls. (They were Smucker's SNACK PACK brand.) Well, one of them had a leak, suprising that there was only one.
Anyway, long story short, we cut out the bladder from the ball, and about an hour's worth of duct taping later :D , we have our very own bladderball. It only holds air for about half an hour, but that's half an hour of bizzare fun.
The leak was really about a 6-inch long slash in the bladder, so it took several layers of tape to get it even this good. It is currently in our crate awaiting our arrival in Seattle.
Dave_222
11-03-2002, 13:01
I once got boerd while programing one day and mad a whole mini zoo out of duct tape wadds.
Mike Bulzomi
13-03-2002, 14:24
Originally posted by Skabana159
I've got a good one. This year, one of our engineers found a big box of REALLY cheap soccer balls. (They were Smucker's SNACK PACK brand.) Well, one of them had a leak, suprising that there was only one.
Anyway, long story short, we cut out the bladder from the ball, and about an hour's worth of duct taping later :D , we have our very own bladderball. It only holds air for about half an hour, but that's half an hour of bizzare fun.
The leak was really about a 6-inch long slash in the bladder, so it took several layers of tape to get it even this good. It is currently in our crate awaiting our arrival in Seattle.
hm.. i guess i'll have to join in on the fun out there.. and bring my friend that sings the duct tape song (- http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2697 -) to drive you all insane whilst you play with said "bladderball".. not to mention the fact that half of everyone there will prolly want to join in on the fun. :)
what better way to drive university students insane than having a girl sing a very annoying song (funny to me though) and having high school kids goofing off on university turf? :D
fast frank
16-03-2002, 22:48
i used to make duct tape wallets and gave them to friends, but then everyone who wanted on got one, so i stoped making them.
one time at summer camp, i made a huge platform up in the trees about 10 ft off the ground consisting of only wood and duct tape, no rope! it was about 6ft by 10ft
AntiCrombieDuck
17-03-2002, 11:26
did it hurt when u hit the ground?
fast frank
17-03-2002, 16:09
no, it was pretty strong, i only fell once
AntiCrombieDuck
17-03-2002, 20:22
did it fall, or just u fall?
fast frank
17-03-2002, 20:32
one of the logs i used was really rotted, so when i stepped on it, i fell through. i replaced it and it was fine.
SPAMcutie180
30-03-2002, 11:53
hehe Duct tape.....hmm let me think.....
Ive made a bikini also.......pretty fun stuff when you go tothe beach and fall asleep in the sun and the adhisive kinda melts and even tho idoubled it over it kinda stuck to me a li bit......that hurt1!!=)
at school w duct tapped a kid......kinda like hog tieing someone but we duct taped him....he now wears a "ducttape ribbon" on his rotc uniform.......its like hard to explain.....its for ROTC and military stuff...soif you kow anything abotu that you know whta im talking about!
someone i know made a duct tape wig......that was cute
someone i know made a superman costume outta duct tape......he even had the lil red undies!! hehe
he wore it for halloween......he got a lot of wierd looks
hmmm waht else
theres to many so if you want sme interesting duct tape stories find m at NATS!!
Love ya
Nicole
aka Nikki
Team 180 SPAM!!!!!
A guy on our team wore his duct tape hat... his suit was up at the cottage *sigh* let's see.... in a competition I used to do anytime something on our set broke we'd just kinda plaster on duct tape.
That duct tape purse sounds kinda cool... i just might do that...
Oh, there's a chick at my school that has a shirt with a strip of duct tape across with "your ad here" in permenant marker written on it.
Hm... that's all I have off hand.. I have some nice stories about plastic wrap tho.....
*hugz to all as alwayz*
Ann-Marie -team 783
238junior
11-04-2002, 18:38
Duct tape girl two years ago from Merrimack, NH was in the FIRST competition. She wore everything duct tape. Skirt, Bra , Shirt, Shoes, ect. It was wicked funny but kinda disturbing.
CheckeredSkaKid
11-04-2002, 21:48
Originally posted by MissInformation
I am not going to talk about duct tape clothing, I am not going to talk about duct tape clothing, I am...except to say I know the best thing to get duct tape residue off of skin, and it's not peanut butter.
The oddest? A friend in college let us duct tape his sort of longish hair into spikes for no reason whatsoever. Since Garret county still had some kind of a dry county law in affect, we headed over the boarder to West Virginia and went to some hick bar and scared the bejeezus out of the local bumpkins there.
Oh, trying to get the duct tape out of his hair was too painful, so he ended up with a very, very short haircut. Which made his parents very happy.
MissInformation
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It's confirmed: my mind isn't twisted, it's actually sprained.
okay, were you at the toronto regional? because i swear that i heard someone tell me that exact same story there. it kinda freaks me out, in fact it would freak me out more if you hadn't been there....scary stuff, scary stuff...
anyways...i think that with all of you guys put together, you could have beem millionaires with all the money that you've spent on duct tape, like i can talk tho. im just as bad....its sad really that so many people can find such amusment with such a simple object like duct tape...
p.s. if your every stranded in the woods (or on a survival trip like i was) all you need are a few logs and a couple rolls of duct tape and you've got a perfect little lean-to to sleep in!
p.s.s it helps to have other insulation because in the middle of the night, duct tape doesn't insulate very well. and that, might, eventually, lead to duct tapes downfall! how depressing! if only it could insulate better, all those people in duct tape clothes could go out in the winter!
MissInformation
11-04-2002, 22:07
okay, were you at the toronto regional? because i swear that i heard someone tell me that exact same story there. it kinda freaks me out, in fact it would freak me out more if you hadn't been there....scary stuff, scary stuff...
Sorry to freak you out, but I wasn't there. Unless my evil twin was there, er, wait a minute, make that my good twin, I'm the evil one... I think. Or we maybe we're both one and the same? (okay, no more They Might Be Giants for tonight).
Thanks for the hint for camping. I'll make sure I always take a roll of it with me. I suppose it could also come in handy if your tent-mate it snoring... as earplugs, of course!
MissInformation
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Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be- Eric Hoffer
Jgreenwd1
11-04-2002, 22:26
nothing can be as weird as one of the students that make duct tape out fits and wears them to school. hes even making a duct tape suit for the prom.
SlaveOfChernobl
11-04-2002, 22:37
i made my wallet out of duct tape. its REALLY great. i have two card holder pockets, a see through pocket for my id, and two money compartments. its really shiny tape, and it has nylon strands in it to make it super durable. its like a tank. and the coolest thing is that when i am in a airport, it makes the metal detectors go of so i have to take it out. when i do everyone looks and stares. its rectangular and shiny, they are all so surprised. i like it very much.
SpackleDawg
12-04-2002, 10:16
I have a hat made out of duct tape! Sticks to my hair sometimes!
FotoPlasma
12-04-2002, 11:41
On one of the many late nights during the build period, one of our members took it upon himself to make new shoes out of cardboard and duct tape.
It was fun for a few minutes, but the real hilarity occured outside.
It was approximately 2am, and had been raining the day before. As we were on the way to our various modes of transportation, we came to the end of a walkway, infamous for having a huge dip at the end, in which a seriously deep puddle forms after rain. We were all talking and joking (as well as anyone can after a 14 hour day), when all of a sudden, Bill says, "Watch out for that puddle..."
*splash!*
The dude with the duct tape shoes stepped right in the middle, the deepest part, of the miniture lake...
At that point, we were all in hysterics. It was the funniest thing that had happened all day, and I don't think I'll ever forget about it...
CheckeredSkaKid
12-04-2002, 16:08
Originally posted by MissInformation
Sorry to freak you out, but I wasn't there. Unless my evil twin was there, er, wait a minute, make that my good twin, I'm the evil one... I think. Or we maybe we're both one and the same? (okay, no more They Might Be Giants for tonight).
Thanks for the hint for camping. I'll make sure I always take a roll of it with me. I suppose it could also come in handy if your tent-mate it snoring... as earplugs, of course!
MissInformation
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Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be- Eric Hoffer
are you sure you weren't there? was your team? maybe one of them told me. i gonna be racking my brain till i can think who told me that, its not like somone did the same thing because i remember them saying that they had to cut the hair and the parents were happy. maybe im crazy, or better yet, phycic ( is that spelled right?)
thats really scary. not cool at all
later
MissInformation
12-04-2002, 18:06
Nope, not spelled right. And nope, my team wasn't there either. And I don't even live close enough to have gottent there by sleepwalking... Oh, and duct tape does not make good earplugs!
MissInformation
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If you're going to skate on thin ice, you might as well dance- Anonymous
Matt Attallah
12-04-2002, 18:51
Originally posted by MissInformation
Nope, not spelled right. And nope, my team wasn't there either. And I don't even live close enough to have gottent there by sleepwalking... Oh, and duct tape does not make good earplugs!
MissInformation
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If you're going to skate on thin ice, you might as well dance- Anonymous
HEY!!! Duck Tape can do anything, including making good earplugs. You didn't make it correctly. If you do it right, you can even make duck tape glasses. Duck tape IS the most saught-after item in the market. IT DOES MIRICLES!! (sp...)
CheckeredSkaKid
12-04-2002, 23:16
matt you wern't by any chance there when someone told me about spiking hair w/ ducttape ect... were you?
ill go crazy if i cant think of where i heard that.... errrohhh....ugh!....WHO TOLD ME THAT??/ who who who who who who who who who? its gonna annoy the bjebus outta me.. later... ooowwww
CheckeredSkaKid
13-04-2002, 20:58
ha ha ha. i found it out!!!!! my sister had read what MissINformation had said, then she had told me about it....then i went on and read it!!!!!!hehehe i feel stupid now!!!! later
Greg Perkins
15-04-2002, 11:51
Anyone from NH or the area, ever watch PBS sometimes? There is a guy on that station that has a show called RED GREEN. This guy makes EVERYTHING out of duct tape, lets see: A car, a gas grill, a van, a froklift, and a van which he ductaped a toyota on top of a chevy van, This guy freaking rules, oh yeah hes canadian!!!
Badjokeguy:)
Gotta love the Canadians:)
Originally posted by badjokeguy
Anyone from NH or the area, ever watch PBS sometimes? There is a guy on that station that has a show called RED GREEN. This guy makes EVERYTHING out of duct tape, lets see: A car, a gas grill, a van, a froklift, and a van which he ductaped a toyota on top of a chevy van, This guy freaking rules, oh yeah hes canadian!!!
Badjokeguy:)
Gotta love the Canadians:)
RED GREEN RULES!!!!
Wetzel
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I prefer original silver.
SPAMcutie180
21-04-2002, 12:46
someone tape me a episode or this Red Green show...... I d love ot see it!
PLEASE!
Harrison
21-04-2002, 14:42
You have Red Green on PBS? lol
It's on normal stations here ;)
And yes, you do have to love us Canadians =)
skapunker_498
22-04-2002, 01:02
cool story,
my friend mike and his date went to prom last week in a duct tape tux (including all parts; top hat too) ans his date wore a duct tape prom dress. it was the coolest thing ive ever seen done.
I have broken down and gotten a friend to create me a duct tape wallet.. I plan on getting some red and black duct tape tho... needs colour and I plan on making a neat purse *points to her head* it's all up here.
Red Green is great, and there's a duct tape forever movie coming out sometime soon.. or maybe it's already out... 8sigh* I have no clue.
*hugz to all as alwayz*
Ann-Marie
Joe Menassa
22-04-2002, 21:14
I once had my class president duct taped to the wall of our cafeteria as a fundraiser.
And another time I held a race where 4 people rushed to tape their parter to a pole the fastest.
one of the odd things i have seen done with duct tape is ruineing a good pair of jeans by covering them with duct tape and then going around having random people sign them of course that was from our human player that runs up to people and says "i'm a pixie fairy are you scared" right in their faces it is so funny to watch though:D
SPAMcutie180
04-05-2002, 00:10
Ok the night before nats me Kelly and Kristen all from tema 180 were al ltalking right??
we brought up a funny convo from KSC and well it had to do with Kelly stating she was "The Asain chick" and so i was like well i can be asain blah blah blah and i likedid hte thing with my eyes right? well kelly was like your eyes dnt stay liek that im like i can duct tape them tho! and everyone stated laughin
that would be a funny site tho don yo uthink!?!?
hehe
love ya
nikki
O SPAM!!!!!
KevnMajikskech
24-02-2004, 20:11
This is what our team did w/ ducktape; weve also used ducktape as pnumatic tubing and that was....interesting
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pictures.php?s=&action=single&picid=4596&direction=DESC&sort=date&perrow=4&trows=3&quiet=Verbose
Elyse Holguin
24-02-2004, 20:52
The girls on our team have duck tape skirts for competition, myself excluded. Something about a skirt in the pits doesn't seem like it'd work too well.
Heretic121
24-02-2004, 22:09
duct tape skirts... couldnt that get like... wouldnt they be like stiff... ?? and wouldnt it be hard to make them like fit good!? w/e im a guy... dont hurt me for being curious LOL!!! if i wasn't human player... i would think about making a DuckTape kilt =D
REAL MEN WEAR KILTS!!!
Blacknight
25-02-2004, 16:37
Hmmm does a trench coat sound weird?
or how about pants?
or gloves....
I kinda make duct tape "things" for sale in my spare time so nothing is odd to me...
Elyse Holguin
05-03-2004, 13:18
duct tape skirts... couldnt that get like... wouldnt they be like stiff... ?? and wouldnt it be hard to make them like fit good!? w/e im a guy... dont hurt me for being curious LOL!!! if i wasn't human player... i would think about making a DuckTape kilt =D
REAL MEN WEAR KILTS!!!
they do inhibit movement from what i've seen, and it's hard to make the duck tape go along with the curves of your body. which further is reason for why i won't wear one.
FotoPlasma
05-03-2004, 13:39
they do inhibit movement from what i've seen, and it's hard to make the duck tape go along with the curves of your body. which further is reason for why i won't wear one.
I could imagine that you could incorporate pieces of elastic bands into articles of clothing, so that they'll "fit", as it were.
Jon Anderson
05-03-2004, 17:01
This year in our engineering class we went to Tech Trek and one of the competitions was Duct Tape Fanatics. The groups had to make a sandle out of duct tape and other junk type objects.
Anyone from NH or the area, ever watch PBS sometimes? There is a guy on that station that has a show called RED GREEN. This guy makes EVERYTHING out of duct tape, lets see: A car, a gas grill, a van, a froklift, and a van which he ductaped a toyota on top of a chevy van, This guy freaking rules, oh yeah hes canadian!!!
I love his hot water heater: Tape 3 propate torches onto the wall of your shower and have them all point at the shower head. :)
As for duct tape...Think 1 large novelty sombrero, 8 rolls of duct tape, and 8 robotics members in a hotel room with more caffiene than is legal to posses in some small nations.
And there also was the time we completely wrapped our coach's car in duct tape.
-Scooter
Can't duct tape remove warts?
(Not instantly, of course. From what I've heard you have to keep it on for a couple of weeks)
Don't know about warts (looks like it might cause a sticky situation (ok...sorry...bad pun)), but I have used it to immobilize a couple of toes that were starting to blister while backpacking. Worked like a charm, and I made it off of the trail with no further damage.
-Bill
MOEmaniac
10-03-2004, 23:03
my favorite thing i ever made out of duct tape was a pair of sunglasses..
I had a pair of sunglass lenses from an old pair of glasses so i made the frames completely out of duct tape and put the lenses in and they worked great..
kinda stinks since i cant find them now because they were my favorite pair of sunglasses i have ever had :(
Kiwi_queen
11-03-2004, 13:51
well, my brother knows that I am a fan of making things out of duct tape (wallets, purses, flip-flops, yadda yadda yadda). So when one of his female friends invited him to prom and asked him if he would be willing to do the Duck Tape prom contest with her, guess who he asked to help him make his outfit? Yup! Me! But the great thing about it is that, seeing as my brother is a comedian to major proportions, he's not wearing a tux. Instead, both he and the girl are going in dresses. Hee hee. (Scary thing is, he looks good in dresses, 'cuz he has had to wear them before for plays and the such). I can't wait have him in the final outfit. :D
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