On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, der Mouse wrote:
> >> But it's the sort of thing he might well have done at need - he had
> >> a real gift for things mechanical, and he did tend to end up in
> >> places like Poland after the war, or rural India, where you can't
> >> just pop down to the corner store and pick up an arc-welding helmet.
> > Your dad wouldn't happened to be named MacGyver by any chance?
>
> No, none of his names were anything like that. Malcolm Warren Parker.
Hint: joke :) There was a TV show by that name where the main character
carried around an encyclopedic knowledge of all things and could
manufacture whatever he needed from elements in his immediate environment
in order to escape out of whatever predicament his secret agent lifestyle
got him in to.
MacGyver Homepage
http://www.uplinktech.net/macgyver/
(I'm amazed that there are fan pages for this show.)
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