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    > I value my old fashioned books like the one in your slide show too.
> a certain sincerity combined with relative simplicity. even a quality
> 'innocence' is present.
> Like they really wanted you to get it, when the wrote and illustrated that
> book.
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  Anybody out there remember the High School level shop safety / instruction manuals with "Primitive Pete"? He knew how to do everything wrong...

  What fun, to see illustrations of screwdrivers used as prybars, or chisels, and other selections from the "shop of Horrors"...