The younger Tom does not tinker with motorcycles ; his inventions and adventures extend from the center of the Earth ( in Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster ) to the bottom of the ocean ( in Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter ) to the moon ( in Tom Swift and the Race to Moon ) and, eventually, the outer solar system ( in Tom Swift and His Cosmotron Express ).

* Tom Snout, the tinker – Wall

* Tom Waits ' song " Soldier's Things " from the album Swordfishtrombones includes the line " A tinker, a tailor, a soldier's things ".

Peter Quince meets Nick Bottom the weaver, Francis Flute the bellows-mender, Tom Snout the tinker, Starveling the tailor, and Snug the joiner in the woods to rehearse the play.

The tinker, setting out to capture Robin, only manages to fight with him after he has been cheated out of his money and the arrest warrant he is carrying.

The Storyteller recounts the adventures of a boy who goes out into the world to learn what fear is, accompanied by a dishonest but loveable tinker.

I made a drum out of an old butter container and hit it with tinker toys.

Since new Autocockers are designed to work " out of the box ," new owners are usually advised to not tinker with anything until they fully understand how the marker works.

* The chorus of The Kingston Trio's " Take Her Out of Pity " from their 1961 album Close-Up ( The Kingston Trio album ) is " Come a landsman, a pinsman, a tinker or a tailor ; a doctor, a lawyer, a soldier or a sailor ; a rich man, a poor man, a fool or a witty ; don't let her die an old maid, but take her out of pity.

Encouraged to tinker in the workshop, he built puppets, gliders, masks, and kites, and taught himself to draw by means of books about the illustrators Howard Pyle and Norman Rockwell.

Today, again, there was a large market in the square, where a number of country people, with their horses and donkeys, stood about bargaining for young pigs, heather brooms, homespun flannels, second hand clothing, blackening brushes, tinker ’ s goods and many other articles.

Bob realizes that his wife is starting to think he needs to go back to the sanitarium, but his bigger concern is that, if nothing is done about the gremlin, it will damage the plane and cause it to crash ; in fact, the gremlin has already started to tinker with the wiring under one of the wing flaps.

When a tinker comes begging, Tom's mother inadvertently gives him the pudding containing her son.

BeOS PE could be started from within Microsoft Windows or Linux, and was intended to nurture consumer interest in its product and give developers something to tinker with.

From this period there are a number of ballads in which Robin is severely " drubbed " by a succession of professionals including a tanner, a tinker and a ranger.

Nevertheless, Le Verrier continued to tinker with Vulcan ’ s orbital parameters as each new reported sighting reached him.

On the Alan Lomax collection Songs of Seduction ( Rounder Select, 2000 ), there's a bawdy Irish folk song called " The Thrashing Machine " sung by tinker Annie O ' Neil, as recorded in the early 20th Century.

While M. Houdin worked in the main shop, Jean was to tinker with mechanical toys and automatic figures.

Organizationally, a wireless community network requires either a set of affordable commercial technical solutions or a critical mass of hobbyists willing to tinker to maintain operations.

The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself.

Although there is no direct literary source for the Induction, the tale of a tinker being duped into thinking he is a lord is a universal one found in many literary traditions.

This, he argues, is done so as to ensure the audience does not take the play literally, that it sees it as a farce ; " The drunken tinker may be believed in as one believes in any realistically presented character ; but we cannot ' believe ' in something that is not even mildly interesting to him.

The play within the play has been presented only after all the preliminaries have encouraged us to take it as a farce [...] the main purpose of the Induction was to set the tone for the play within the play – in particular, to present the story of Kate and her sister as none-too-serious comedy put on to divert a drunken tinker.

Almost the whole of The Taming of the Shrew is a play-within-a-play, presented to convince Christopher Sly, a drunken tinker, that he is a nobleman watching a private performance, but the device has no relevance to the plot ( unless Katharina's subservience to her " lord " in the last scene is intended to strengthen the deception against the tinker ) and is often dropped in modern productions.

He bore a great reputation for conviviality ', and wrote a humorous Latin version of the popular ballad A soldier and a sailor, A tinker and a tailor, etc.

During the shooting of Help !, a piano was placed on one of the stages where filming was being conducted and McCartney would take advantage of this opportunity to tinker with the song.

Even with that success, Arledge wanted to tinker with programming ideas.

The most prominent and famous fairy is Tinker Bell, Peter Pan's companion, whose name alludes to her profession as a " tinker " or fixer or pots and pans.

She had played the part of a tinker girl in Flight of the Doves ( 1971 ), a children's adventure film starring Ron Moody and Jack Wild and directed by Ralph Nelson.

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Tinker Bell was described by Barrie as a fairy who mended pots and kettles, like an actual tinker.

He also mentions Harry Blackmun's vote in Gregg v. Georgia that ruled the death penalty constitutional and his later dissent in Callins v. Collins in which he states " from this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death ...

A methane build up " farts " the planet out of the system and sends it out into deep space where it becomes an ice planet ; later moved and thawed by the actions of the crew of Red Dwarf.

When alone with Henry after lighting farts with him and his gang one July afternoon in 1958, Patrick gives Henry a handjob and offers to give him oral sex, which snaps Henry out of his daze and prompts him to punch Patrick in the mouth.

During the said events, viewers and / or listeners will hear these digital codes in the form of buzzes, chirps, & clicking sounds ( or what broadcast engineers affectionately call " duck farts ") just before the attention signal is sent out and at the conclusion of the voice message.

As clouds of smoke waft in and out of the scene, he turns over several times, farts, scratches his head, removes his socks, and at the end of the scene, he rolls over and falls off of the couch.

She would come in and out of the studio to announce new competitions for the viewers and would also give feedback from behind the camera, she could often be heard laughing in the background and being blamed for farts by Zig and Zag.

" Valerie's Hymen ," where Moore discussed cutting out his wife's hymen with a carving knife, and " Lady Vera Fart Teller ", wherein Moore elaborates on a visit to a fortune teller who could tell his future by examining his farts.

The reformers argued that the 1922 Committee was " run by a group of mostly cantankerous old farts who do little to further right-wing ideas " and needed to campaign on issues other than EU membership and their objections to House of Lords reform because it made the party appear out of touch.

Scolding that his relationship with Carter is ruined because of that, Peter swears to never speak with Brian again and goes to incredible lengths to ignore him, such as enclosing himself in a massive plastic bubble ( which backfires when Peter farts, causing him to pass out from the stench ).

Teachers in American schools have been encouraged to use books about farts to make children more comfortable with the word.

Each man plays a Hollywood archetype — self-absorbed multi-Oscar-winning Aussie method actor Kirk Lazarus ( Downey ), aging action hero desperately looking to reinvent himself as a serious actor ( Stiller ), and overweight heroin-addicted self-destructive comic best known for portraying multiple characters in a franchise of comedies about a family that farts in every film ( Black )— as they star in an extremely expensive Vietnam-era film called Tropic Thunder.

Parker also said the show's elements about flatulence causing spontaneous combustion stemmed from his own serious belief that holding in farts can indeed cause humans to spontaneously combust.