Everything2
Near Matches
Ignore Exact
Full Text
Everything2

It's only temporary unless it works

created by SirNAOF

(idea) by SirNAOF (3.4 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Mon Mar 03 2003 at 19:40:41

A popular phrase from the Red Green show. It is most often said when the show's hosts are using duct tape. One example is a modification to a car that required attaching a snowplow to the front. They used several rolls of duct tape to hold the plow to the car, saying "Remember, it's only temporary, unless it works."

This phrase has been heard in many places, such as CAE (my place of employment). Frequently, when correcting a system problem, a temporary fix will be thrown together, after which you can usually hear "it's only temporary unless it works."

Similar to: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

printable version
chaos

The Red Green Show Impersonating someone famous Programming for the End of the Day Red cunt hair
Bible Code If it ain't broke, don't fix it earplugs it's
Monster Garage Saturday night Central African Republic Morality and religion
Y'know, if you log in, you can write something here, or contact authors directly on the site. Create a New User if you don't already have an account.
  Epicenter
Login
Password

password reminder
register

Everything2 Help

Cool Staff Picks
The best nodes of all time:
I wrote you a letter on the bus back from the city, but that's a different kind of weary
Japanese writing system
A sandwich is not a sammich
You are precious to me. Did you know that?
In the empty mountains
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Orca
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Pol Pot
There's nothing noble about being a soldier
The Simpsons
node
Little red raver girl
New Writeups
Panda_Pain
Write Ups(idea)
sam512
halfway homes, catacombs, twilight zones(fiction)
Timeshredder
The Texas UFO Crash of 1897(event)
Heitah
The Dark Knight(review)
ignis_glaciesque
Uppsala(place)
ignis_glaciesque
diffusion of responsibility(idea)
TheOrientalAfrican
The Soft Meadow of my Childhood(event)
BookReader
The Dragon Slayers(fiction)
kohlcass
religiously fashionable(review)
Pavlovna
waulking song(thing)
tentative
Stick Man(poetry)
Ereneta
The Fight with the Snapping Turtle: Or, the American St. George(poetry)
sitaraika
Fog and fire(personal)
MonoliTheory
She sobs in response(fiction)
kohlcass
Arzu(person)
This affordable entertainment brought to you by The Everything Development Company