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The Woulda Coulda Shoulda Guide to Canadian Inventions

✍ Scribed by Green, Red


Book ID
109979463
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Weight
9 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780385687393

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


One of Canada's greatest inventors takes on his peers, with mixed results.
The author of How to Do Everything and Red Green's Beginner's Guide to Women has never been reluctant to take on enormously difficult jobs that are doomed to failure. This latest project has turned out to be perhaps his nearest thing to a triumph yet. In Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda, Red surveys, analyzes, critiques and in some cases tells you how to replicate at home the best Canadian inventions, from the Wonderbra to the hard-cup jockstrap, by way of insulin, the walkie-talkie, synchronised swimming and more world-changing innovations than you can wave a Canadarm at.
And speaking of the Canadarm, Red shows how by simply combining common household items such as a cordless drill, metal tape measure, broomstick, ice tongs, bungee cord, fishing reel and, of course, the handiman's secret weaponβ€”duct tapeβ€”you will in no time at all be lifting oranges out of the fruit...


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