Quotes of the Month:
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence and then success is sure." - Mark Twain

For other quotes this month we head you over to David Letterman's web site for some George W. Bush quotes - which have been stacked up against some of the greatest presidential speeches of all time. Click here.

Soapbox presents Tim's personal opinions about issues that he feels are of importance.
It has challenging stuff to think about during your duct taping projects. If you want a dose of stuff to think about click here. If you don't want to, that's okay. Tape on! Here is a brief intro to what's in this month's SOAPBOX:

The end of small politics by Barack Obama
I believe that this is a speech that every American who considers themselves a "patriot" ought to digest and act accordingly. Click here to read. Click here to watch the video of Barack delivering the speech.

Also, please consider listening to an important speech by Barack Obama given at the Call to Renewal conference. It deals with faith and politics... An important listen for any person of faith who believes that their faith plays an important role in their public life, their voting, their government. click here to listen

The Blue Pill
In the movie "The Matrix", Neo had the option of taking the red pill (to keep on living in the fantasy world that had been created - not knowing reality) or the blue pill (to reveal to him the truth and to then live accordingly). I would like to offer you the "blue pill" in the form of "Loose Change" - a film digging for the truth about what REALLY happened on 9/11. Watch the video and form your own conclusions. click here

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OR If you don't have a digital camera or just want a bumper sticker, you can send $1.00 and get one delivered to your U.S. mailing address. Just send $1 with a self-addressed, stamped (39¢) #10 (business-sized) envelope to: Duct Tape Guys Bumper Sticker c/o 732 Memorial Drive, Suite 200, Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

We've had several orders lately from people taking advantage of our Garage Sale section of the Duct Tape Pro Shop. Some for gifts, but several for business incentives, promotional items, and thank you gifts. If you think about it, it makes good economic sense. For instance, if you are a Realtor: Add an Ultimate Duct Tape Book to a roll of duct tape and you have the perfect little "survival kit" for new homeowners. With prices at less than 50% of retail, you can give a gift that gives big for just a little bit of cash. Check out what's in the Garage today and get your marketing and public relations wheels turning!

Duct Tape Poetry Contest
We are in the process of posting a Duct Tape Poetry page and will be using some of the poetry in our 2008 calendar. Enter your favorite form of poetry about your favorite tool (we are assuming, of course, that tool would be duct tape).

Suggested forms are Haiku a non-rhyming form that follows a 5 - 7 - 5 syllable form - for example:

Strong and sticky tape
We can't live without the stuff
World will fall apart

Or a Cinquain - following this form:
Line 1 - a one word title or two syllables
Line 2 - a 2 word phrase that describes your title or you can just use two words (or 4 syllables)
Line 3 - a 3 word phrase that describes an action relating to your title or just actions words (or 6 syllables)
Line 4 - a 4 word phrase that describes a feeling relating to your topic or just feeling words (or 8 syllables)
Line 5 - one word that refers back to your title (or 2 syllables)
for example:

Duct Tape
Strong and sticky
Rip it, place it, press it
you can fix it yourself right now
Power

If you are brave (or of Irish descent), try a Limerick:
A limerick is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet. If a couplet is a two-line rhymed poem, then a triplet would be a three-line rhymed poem. The rhyme pattern is a a b b a with lines 1, 2 and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming, and lines 3 and 4 having two beats and rhyming. Some people say that the limerick was invented by soldiers returning from France to the Irish town of Limerick in the 1700's.
Limericks are meant to be funny. They often contain hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms, puns, and other figurative devices. The last line of a good limerick contains the PUNCH LINE or "heart of the joke."

Or, just a SHORT rhyming poem about duct tape.

So, there's the challenge. Random winners from the best entries will recieve a free duct tape book and/or Duct Tape Pro Pin and/or Bumper Sticker (include your correct mailing address with your entry so we can get stuff if you win (no, we won't bug you with advertisements or sell your information). The DEADLINE IS JULY 31st for entries that wish to be considered for inclusion in our 2008 365 Days of Duct Tape Page-A-Day™ Calendar. Click here to email your entry.

Need help rhyming? click to http://rhyme.poetry.com/
For help with Poetry Forms and Terminology click here

Be safe and be prepared during road trips! It's always a good idea to have a roll or two of duct tape in your car at all times. If you drive a car like Tim's (a 1972 Ford Pinto) you never know when you are going to lose a rear quarter panel. Or, lose an oil cap like this guy did: "While on a road trip to a funeral I stopped for gas about 5:30 pm. Checking my oil (like any conscientious car owner should) I noticed that my oil fill cap had fallen off. Since the town's only parts store had closed, I looked for other options. Since I always carry a roll of duct tape in my Durango, I balled some up a bit bigger that the opening and taped it down with more duct tape! It help with no leakage for another 80 miles when I finally replaced it with a standard oil file cap!" - submitted by Daniel Hitson

Did you fall off of our list?
We've switched our e-mail listserve software If you were a subscriber to our email list in the past, you would have gotten a verification email making sure you want to opt-in to our new list. Over 700 of you didn't respond to this and thereby fell off of the list. If you want to keep getting our newsletter announcements and special notices that we send out (not more than twice a month), Click here - and resubscribe. Then MAKE SURE you respond to the verification email that comes your way after you subscribe to make sure your email is activated in the system. Remember, we never sell or share our list with anyone and you can easily unsubscribe at any time. - Jim and Tim

Music to duct tape by:
We've added a new little section to the newsletter that will feature music that we dig for one reason or another. You can also check out our duct tape-specific music offerings by clicking to our Music area. Tim's son (Jim's nephew), Jake, has a trio that is based in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. The New Mercury Trio started out playing jazz and gave it a healthy chunk of groove to come up with groove-based jazz renditions of popular tunes from jazz standards to music by Nirvana, Zero 7, Soul Coughing... - click here for New Mercury Trio's web site. And, you can listen to full-song MP3s of their music to listen to while you are reading this issue of Duct Tape on a Roll.

Dale's Discoveries
(A monthly feature that will be showcasing weird stuff that our friend Dale comes up with.) Visit Dale's TallToysTroupe site

I had always heard that, once you have kids of your own, you will find yourself saying things that your parents said. I guess I was kind of ready for that. What really took me by surprise was when I caught myself saying things that I would have never, and by that I mean
never, imagined I would ever say. The other day words escaped my mouth that definitely fit that category. I swear that I actually said: Cheese is not a toy!!

When I told my niece, Heather, who works in a hospital, she allowed as to how she often says things in the course of her job that fall into
that category. One example is: Leave that in your nose.

Got an idea for a shirt? Look through our apparel offerings. If you don't see your idea, and we haven't used it in the past, we just might use it. If we produce it, we will send you a free shirt. (email your idea to tim@ducttapeguys.com - put "shirt idea" in the subject line)

Be careful how you pick your web site name.

All of these are legitimate companies dealing in regular products and
services, but they didn't think their domain names through! Take note
of their Domain Names!

Some of them are prime candidates for the "What was I thinking?" Award!

A site called 'Who represents' where you can find the name of the agent that represents a celebrity. Their domain name is: www.whorepresents.com

'Experts Exchange', a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at: www.expertsexchange.com

Looking for a pen? Look no further than 'Pen Island' at: www.penisland.net

Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at: www.therapistfinder.com

Then of course, there's the 'Italian Power Generator Company' - www.powergenitalia.com

And now, we have the Mole Station Native Nursery, based in New South Wales: www.molestationnursery.com

If you're looking for computer software, there's always www.ipanywhere.com

Then, of course, there's these brainless art designers, and their wacky website: www.speedofart.com

Thanks to Alex B. for submitting these web sites.

The silent treatment...
A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. Suddently, the man realized that he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 am for an early business flight.
Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and lose), he wrote on a piece of paper, "Please wake me up at 5:00am." He left it where he knew she would find it.
The next morning the man woke up only to discover that it was 9:00am and he had missed his flight. Furious, he was about to go see why his wife hadn't wakened him, when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed. The paper said, "It is 5:00 am. Wake up."

If you spot duct tape being used to hold something together - snap a photo and send it to us. We'll add it to our Duct Tape Sightings pages. Make sure you tell us where the shot was taken! Random entries will be chosen for use in our books and calendars. See our submissions page for complete information.

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May the Tape be with you!
- Jim and Tim - The Duct Tape Guys

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