Cinema Storyline Tinkerer Gifts

Awful Alternate Histories.

Rejected Titles For The Canadian National Anthem.

"I thought you were making a coffee table?"

Timmy has a great future in nano-technology.

Congratulations on your retirement!

FRY's FAMILY - Young Tom was always fiddling around with bits of machinery.

"Moby Richard by Herman Melville" "Wonderful! Not sure about the title—let's discuss editor."

'Mom! Dad's eating my science fair project!'

'I'm a do-it-yourselfer, but I've never been a done-it-yourselfer...'

Fixing the TV.

Poetry repairman

'Can you redo this manuscript, John, and make it less stupid?'

'I think I found the problem.'

'He's one of those genetically-altered antibodies.'

'Not only did I fix the leak, but when you run the hot water it plays 'Harlem Nocturne'.'

"However good father's 'beaver-o-matic' was..."

"I felt like 'data analyst' sounded better than 'good guesser'."

Ab Lawson's Genetic Engineering Farm

Athen's Theater. "Oedipus Rex" didn't test well as a title, Sophocles. How would you feel about calling it "My Big Fat Greek Tragedy"?

'Ok, ok, ok. Just tell me the title.'

Choose any combination of the words above to name your brilliant first novel.

"Norman's building a small Hadron Collider."

"Still it would be a great mistake to abandon your work on the perpetual motion machine."

Remember how I came in on December 31st and ordered a lardo-size fudgsicle sugarbomb mocha with butter sprinkles? Well, give me another one of those. Since it's something I originally had last year, it'll be like I had this one last year too. So it won't violate my New Year's resolution. The ancient art of Time-Shift-Fu. I'm a tenth level grand master. I studied under Moe Yin, the master who created "it's not really 'cheating' if it's with an ex."

Gracie tries to invent a shrinking spray and squirts Baldo with it.

'Andrew loves taking things apart and putting them back together...except he can never actually put them back together...'

Repairing the UFO

Biker and Cyclist.

'Remember when there was no 'i' in team?'

Invention of the 3-Way Light Bulb.

Steinbeck - stuck on the title page (Grapes of Wrath).

"....So....you want my engineers to invent a TV that turns itself off when a political ad comes on? It has potential."

Mowing manual.

"Cable company. . . ? I want to know why my television picture is totally upside down all the time!!"

Pearls Before Swine is not a terribly savvy name