Plot Tinkerer Gifts

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

"I thought you were making a coffee table?"

Timmy has a great future in nano-technology.

Congratulations on your retirement!

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

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

'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.

"I warned you not to use parts from the microwave oven, to mend the electric blanket...."

Poetry repairman

'I think I found the problem.'

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

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

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

'Awesome!'

'Henry, just break down and buy a power drill.'

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

Repairing the UFO

Ab Lawson's Genetic Engineering Farm

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

"Norman's building a small Hadron Collider."

Biker and Cyclist.

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...'

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

"Here's a great software update. It lets me delete all the features that I didn't want from the last update."

Mowing manual.

Square Pegs into Round Holes

"Okay, the mice can be blind, but if we introduce a carving knife, we'll have to use it in the third stanza."