The General Services Administration, in a clumsy attempt to cover up its free spending past, is using duct tape to cover up the names of former GSA Administrators on a building sign. Duct tape now conceals the names of former GSA Administrator Martha Johnson and Public Buildings Commissioner Robert Peck. Both officials have been linked […]
The “Naked Men” show at the Leopold Museum in Vienna is being promoted by a series of posters featuring naked men that have been placed around the city. The show features famous images of naked men and focuses on different artistic styles for presenting the male form. Parts of some of the posters have been […]
From Reddit Post: I’m a starving artist who has to make my own tape by cutting up scraps of fabric and brushing on a home-made concoction derived from the neighbors’ missing horses and spiders’ silk. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit to stick”. Send us your interesting tape news and we’ll […]
Writing in his new biography Rod: The Autobiography, singer Rod Stewart credits that rock and roll staple, gaffers tape, for helping control the amount of sex that went on during his early touring days. Stewart writes about opening his hotel suite door only to find his naked bass player taped to the bed. You can […]
A video posted to the Huffington Post puts to rest the idea that bad guys in the movies putting duct tape over the mouths of their victims will keep them quiet. In the video we see that even with tape over your mouth, it is still possible to talk or to yell for help. We did […]
In providing guidelines for watching tonights’s vice presidential debate, the Huffington Post has revealed that starting today, Vice President Joe Biden should be known as “Gaffe Gafferson, the mayor of Gaffe Town, where they manufacture gaffers tape“. As the reigning monarch of tapenation.com, Mr. Tapehead thinks that he should have been consulted, or at least […]
A thief that used duct tape to try to silence a goat he was stealing left behind more than just the goat. The attempted theft of two goats, and the subsequent death of one of them, from a school’s agricultural barn generated evidence that police were able to use to eventually solve the crime. DNA […]
The Florida Wildlife Commission is investigating a new themed birthday party concept that involves swimming with a live alligator in your own swimming pool. The company that produces the parties, Alligator Attractions, closes up the gator’s mouth with gaffers tape and then puts it in the pool with the party attendees, children included. You can […]
SFLuxe.com, that web site for “all things San Francisco” is reporting that the novel 50 Shades Of Grey has boosted sales of duct tape. SFLuxe editors speculate that the sales bump that local hardware stores are reporting is because of sales of sales to women for something other than home repair jobs. The article goes […]
Runway fashions at New York’s Fashion Week wasn’t just about clothes. Hair was a big deal too. Hair stylist Guido used strips of electrical tape, white and black, to highlight models hair in the Alexanger Wang show. No word yet if Guido will push the “bald” look in his next show, after the models try […]