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Examples
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The Chopstick Joystick is a minimally documented project for building a joystick out of a chopstick, tinkertoys, woodscrews, clothespegs and thumbtacks.
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I was unarmed, and those fellows on the corner would have taken us apart like worn tinkertoys if they'd felt the notion.
Attitude Steve Perry 2007
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Kind of sounds like the stuff that makes us human and the stuff that makes germs germy is the same kind of stuff, and is almost as interchangeable as tinkertoys.
Kevin Smith 2008
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But given his poverty-stricken aesthetic, it’s no surprise to find that he — he IS one of the “us,” I assume — finds the tinkertoys of technology more compelling than poetry.
Poetic Machines 04 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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It's a shame there isn't time to slip it into your friend's pack, along with the other tinkertoys. "
And all the Stars a Stage Blish, James 1960
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