# Fun book at Gutenberg **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 7, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-book-at-gutenberg/343414 "2006-02-07T17:47:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-book-at-gutenberg/343414/1 "2006-02-07T17:47:37Z")
I LOVE Project Gutenberg and just going out to see what’s there to read: Today I turned up a great find: [The Boy Mechanic: volume 1 by Popular Mechanics:](http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12655) Among the truly awsome projects for boys to make: A shower for under $1 A Canon How to make a three way cock for small model work And I haven’t even made it halfway through the book! ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-book-at-gutenberg/343414/2 "2006-02-07T21:34:41Z")
COOL! Thanks for the heads-up! I’m gonna download it right now. ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-book-at-gutenberg/343414/3 "2006-02-07T23:03:20Z")
Waaaay cool! Except for the part where it’s only for BOYS. …myra ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-book-at-gutenberg/343414/4 "2006-02-08T17:28:47Z")
A three way cock? I may have to change my user name. ---
**Author:** ![Dusty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@Dusty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dusty)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-book-at-gutenberg/343414/5 "2006-02-08T17:46:58Z")
I love how it start right off encouraging children to build gliders out of scrap lumber and leap from high cliffs over rushing rivers and fly headlong into oncoming trains. And it’s not just for boys! It’s also got handy gadgets you can make for the girls to help them do their cooking and cleaning. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-book-at-gutenberg/343414/6 "2006-02-08T17:50:58Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > A three way cock? > I may have to change my user name. Oh, you know you want to say it: Band Name! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-book-at-gutenberg/343414/7 "2006-02-08T18:35:03Z")
> [@Dusty](#): > > I love how it start right off encouraging children to build gliders out of scrap lumber and leap from high cliffs over rushing rivers and fly headlong into oncoming trains. Hey, that sounds pretty cool. Got nothin’ else to do. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-book-at-gutenberg/343414/8 "2006-02-08T19:06:17Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Hey, that sounds pretty cool. Got nothin’ else to do. 🙂 I think my favorite so far is encouraging kids to mix cyanide in with other dangerous chemicals for home use. ---
**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-book-at-gutenberg/343414/9 "2006-02-08T19:18:26Z")
> [@](#): > > **How to Make a Flint Arrowhead [23]** > If you live where flints abound, possess the requisite patience and the knack of making things, you can, with the crudest of tools and a little practice, chip out as good arrowheads as any painted savage that ever drew a bow. Woo! Anybody top that one? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-book-at-gutenberg/343414/10 "2006-02-08T20:06:54Z")
> [@edwino](#): > > Woo! Anybody top that one? Dunno. Depends if you shoot your sister or not. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-book-at-gutenberg/343414/11 "2006-02-08T22:48:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Woo! Anybody top that one? How about this one? _“The snow house of the Eskimo is probably the unhealthiest of buildings made by any savage to live in.”_