Water Displacement where you need it, when you need it

posted by Rob on December 14, 2007 03:32 PM

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No, I'll grant you, you can't use it on a book. Or an author (at least not safely). But the idea that WD-40 now comes with its own built-in straw thingie, that you can't lose, is - I think you'll agree - the dawn of a new era. Now the WD-40 will go where you want it - and not just the first time - but repeatedly, even after you would normally have lost the stupid straw held on with its stupid elastic band. This feels huge. All I can say is, what brave new world is this that has such penetrating lubricants in it.

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Hey - thing I bet you don't know about me. When I was a buyer at Block and Quail's Do It Thyself Emporium, I was responsible for the creation of those tiny, cute WD40 cans - the trial ones that slip conveniently into your handbag. Should you be the sort of person who carried WD40 around with you in your handbag.

Ooh, I love the smell. I used to insist on spraying it at my colleagues to make them smell it too. And I had one of those litter-collecting things - the things with pinchy grippers on the end that you operate with a handle at the end of the pole - and would use it to quietly hand bits of paper to my assistant. Or steal things from her desk. Good job I now work on my own.

Also: do you remember that Red Dwarf eposide where Kryton had a girlfriend? He asked what her perfume was, and she replied 'WD40'. Still cracks me up.

Posted by: Em on December 14, 2007 03:49 PM


My dad used this on everything, I swear! The scent of it actually brings back good (old) memories.

I wonder what took them so bloody long to think of this update to the package.

Posted by: S.Roit on December 14, 2007 04:43 PM


Many, many months ago I put down a piece of carpet over our laminate flooring. The carpet was a bit floppy and bendy at the edges and no amount of pleading or jumping on it was keeping it fixed to the floor so that visitors wouldn't break a neck tripping on it. So I forced it down with double-sided carpet tape. Whew! Worked amazing. Carpet snug to the floor.

HOWEVER, after a particularly cute puppy peed on the carpet a few too many times I felt the carpet was ready for the trash. Out went the carpet and up went the double sided tape - NOT! Nothing I used on that tape would remove it, no amount of razor blading, no amount of goo-gone. It was one sticky 15 foot long mess .

Then I remembered what Anna casually told me many, many, MANY months before the carpet. "Rob's Dad, Roger, swears by WD-40. Says it will remove ANYTHING." Anything as in double-sided carpet tape full of dog hair and razor slashes? In a sneeze it took that tape off!!! Smelled for a bit, but worth every sniff. Thank you Roger!!

Posted by: Kris T on December 15, 2007 01:05 AM


I will pass that along, Kris. Thanks. If Em's story above is to be believed, WD-40 is what links us all together.

Posted by: Rob on December 15, 2007 08:12 AM


By astonishing coincidence, my new postcode begins WD6 and I just had an email from a friend saying "imagine if your postcode was WD40. You'd have to be an engineer or something".

Posted by: Leila on December 17, 2007 08:07 AM


"Penetrating lubricants"? Now you're really going to get some spam.

Posted by: KatharineC on December 17, 2007 09:01 PM

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