Plot Tinkerer Gifts

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

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!

"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.

Poetry repairman

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

'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'."

'Awesome!'

Biker and Cyclist.

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

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

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.'

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

"Norman's building a small Hadron Collider."

Repairing the UFO

Ab Lawson's Genetic Engineering Farm

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...'

Invention of the 3-Way Light Bulb.

'I spy with my little intelligence gathering app...'

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

Mowing manual.

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

Square Pegs into Round Holes