Pommy ipsum houlligan well chuffed chap, stew and dumps chaps tally-ho, clock round the earhole tallywhacker splendid. Oh my God he left the cockney lorem in again the bloody boffin, does he ever proof these things or just throw them up and walk away? And devil me knockers all chuffed and grand but what's with the hiatal bleats not being available all at once? Could it be that YGH is back?

He is. The trip straddled two weeks in such a fashion that I decided to do it this way. As you can tell, it was a short trip; the bus was heading one day yesterday, and another day today.

Anyway! Let us look at the clever, handy man's book of dreams:

What is that apparatus behind him?

There's a section on inventors that has an interesting note:

Did he invent the snowblower? The accepted inventor is a Canadian, Robert E. Cole, who patented the thing in the 20s.

There's a preview of the World's Fair:

I don't thik they built that.

But the real fun in the 1937 Modern Mechanix issue comes after our ad.

 

 

 

Let's consider the life of a hobbyist in 1937. Someone who likes to build models. Someone who wants to build . . .

That'll be fun! That'll be a real project!

   
 

Anyone!

No special tools!

   

First step: make the boiler!

It's easy!

What's next?

   
  Gosh, you got your Friday night all mapped our right here
   

Okay, the easy stuff's out of the way. Now pay attention:

You might want to squint to make sure you're doing it right:

It is entirely possible that no one in the world did this.

OH SCREW THAT TRAINS ARE OLD HAT I WANT SOMETHING MODERN

I'M GOING TO TRY RADIO

You can pick up stations around the world! It's the Age of Science. Well, let's see about this. How hard can it -

Uh -

   
 

Maybe I'll just see what's on the radio now

Uh

At least I know how they work now so there's that

   

That'll do. One more day to go! Stay strong, now.

 

 

 

 

 

 
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