screwdriver

• “Everyone tells me I can just use a hammer and flat-head screwdriver to loosen the top collar piece, and then turn the bottom where I want it and tighten the top again with the hammer/screwdriver… but it doesn’t make sense to me that you could go down on the bottom collar without a spanner – doesn’t the spring want to force it up, causing way too much resistance to turn by hand?”

  kevynwight Diary Entry

• “And if that wasn't hard enough, during an encounter with Zero the Doctor's sonic screwdriver is destroyed.”

  TV REVIEW: Doctor Who - 'The Eleventh Hour'

• “Click the third manipulator, and click the UFO in the room you are transported to to receive an IC board, and pick up a screwdriver from a chair on the far right.”

  Archive 2008-05-01

• “In one episode ( "Daleks in Manhattan" or "Evolution of the Daleks" - can't recall), the writers made an effort (however brief) to show that the sonic screwdriver is not the Universal Fixxer-Upper Device by having the Doctor drop it beyond his reach.”

  August 2007

• “It’s not an inherently “Information Architecture” activity any more than the screwdriver is an “auto repair” tool.”

  inkblurt · A Layer Model for the IA Profession

• “3 - Use the key on the wardrobe and take the screwdriver from the locked compartment.”

  Archive 2009-02-01

• “Photobucket Ten’s screwdriver is on the left, Eleven’s is on the right.”

  Planet-x.com.au » 10th_letter: Warning! Dr. Who nerdiness ahead!

• “Don’t know about you, but I could make a pretty good weapon out of nice, thin screwdriver of that length, and just what else are you going to do with it inside the aircraft cabin?”

  2006 December « Hyperpat’s HyperDay

• “Wars should not be micromanaged, by what's sneeringly referred to in the Pentagon by an 8,000 mile screwdriver, that is, Washington.”

  CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2006

• “On the other hand, the screwdriver was a good choice.”

  The crush

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