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Painted floor, of course. Very "old house." And I'm going to try lining in the baseboards. No tape! With oil, it should be easier....
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Italy: $2686
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Marine slang: A clusterfuck was any group of Marines big enough to draw enemy fire, or several Marines close enough together to be wounded by the same incoming round. More generically, a clusterfuck was something that was all screwed up, i.e. "That blocking operation was a giant clusterfuck!" Whenever three or more CAP Marines gathered in the open, talking or working on something, somebody was sure to call out "clusterfuck!" and one or more guys would walk away. (Capmarine.com)
Clearly, Bush's war of choice in Iraq is "all screwed up"; that makes it a clusterfuck by definition. However, the term is even more a propos. Tactically, Bush's war of choice in Iraq is a clusterfuck. The analogy to "Marines close enough together to be wounded by the same incoming round" is clear. In Vietnam, "in the open" meant being exposed in the rice paddies or jungles. In Iraq, "in the open" means (1) urban warfare where (2) troops (and contractors) must be supplied by trucks which (3) are not armored thereby making them vulnerable to (4) the "incoming rounds" of IEDs placed along the roadside. Nice work, Inerrant Boy. (And the resonance to the words of Matthew 18:19, "wherever two or three are gathered together," is heartbreaking.) NOTE: A tip of the Ol' Corrente Hat to the man in the grey turtleneck for mainstreaming the word "clusterfuck" when applied to Bush's war of choice in Iraq.
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painting tape
I just got registered to comment. The other day when i was at the site
there was talk about painters tape. There is a new tape out; it is similar to
the blue tape, only it is green. It is called Frog Tape and is meant to be
used when painting stripes. Supposedly the paint will not bleed under the
tape. I saw it in Home deport just a few days before the posting. I have
not used it yet.
Frog tape is more expensive!
But please, let me know your experiences.
The issue really is, I think, that I'm dealing with an old house. Nothing is true and there are a lot of micro-curves, you might say, in things like trim and baseboards. So the tape is almost a hindrance rather than a help. Maybe, as some commenters have suggested, it's better to master the brush...
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