I am the MacGyver

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

At a loose end this evening (and having no credite left on my home phone and not wanting to give the bastards any more) I wander down to the 24 hour computer suite. On my arrival I discover the power is out but someone is coming to fix it soon. There's this poor guy waiting who obviously has work to do/want to go home, but his Zip disk is stuck in the drive and there's no manual eject hole, and the computers are bolted down. So I watch as he takes a Coke can out of the bin, cuts it into strips and makes two little tubes and wraps them around the pins of the plug, and think he's just fiddling. then he cuts some more strips, takes a cable from another computer and prods them into the cable on the other end ("in tears" I think as I work out what he's up to). He then gets a third cable plugs the 2 mains plugs together, joins the computer ends of the the second and third cables together and plugs it into ("IN TEARS. IN TEARS. IN TEARS." my brain [irrationally] screams, and I gasp transfixed as he plugs the far end into a socket away from the computer desks. Nothing happenned. But wow.

― Graham, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

More tales of death defying ingenuity please.

― Graham, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dude - that was probably like one of the mystery men of the secret shadwo government

― Queen G of the copas mundiales, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

[new workday answers]

― Graham, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You should see all the jerry rigged improvised shelves in our airing cupboard before you talk about MacGyver. Or any night we have a band here (my drum mikes employing six sets of walkman headphones were truly impressive).

― Pete, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

i've been making toast using a coat hanger and a stove element for months, but they have perfectly good toasters for sale right around the corner so it's not very ingenious.

more talk of this sort and praise for this explosive tv drama please

― jones (actual), Monday, 22 September 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

once while fixing my car I found a couple of important carburetor bits held together with a paper clip!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 22 September 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I live in a really small apt. and I don't have a decent closet or room for a chest of drawers, so I keep my clothes in my kitchen cupboards.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 September 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"horace changes his shirt" themetune

― jones (actual), Monday, 22 September 2003 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

i have to say: the lack of handy problem-solving here is alarming

how much Macgyver/Highlander fan fiction do you suppose there is? (if you're thinking "none", you are wrong)

― jones (actual), Monday, 22 September 2003 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"Your search - MacGyver/Dunston Checks In - did not match any documents" :(

― jones (actual), Monday, 22 September 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I once changed channels on an old TV set using only a pair of pliers and my own guile.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 22 September 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Pashmina ought to have a few stories along these lines.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 22 September 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"Thank you, MacGuyver. You have saved our veelage."
"Don't thank me, thank the moon's gravitational pull!"

― Sengai, Tuesday, 23 September 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

During the two weeks between when I broke my lamp and when I bought a new one (two actually) I fashioned a light-emitting device using little more than a dill pickle, some old candy bar wrappers and two thumb tacks.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Your "light-emitting device" sounds suspiciously like a miniature, makeshift rocket.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I should probably disclose that by "little more" I meant all the stuff I listed and a flashlight.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.