#pliers

Five gifts... five tools in one! Ad for Vise-Grip brand locking pliers - 1961.

Bad hedgehogs who bite WILL get punished.

Jon A. Bell's editorial in this issue proclaimed ANALOG would shift to monthly publication in the new year. Among the utility programs, the "Ask Sally Forth" column examined whether a Forth program really could be smaller than a comparable machine language program (it wasn't likely on an Atari, at least).

[Image ID: four gifs of someone making a prop of "vampire blood", a bottle filled with fake blood. In gif one they are filling a glass bottle with red liquid to look like blood and they tie a cork onto the bottle. In gif two they use use pliers to add a beaded chain with a coffin charm and stick a label onto the bottle that has "vampire blood" and a picture of a bat on it. In gif three they use melted black wax to see the bottle. And in gif five they rotate the bottle, showing off the details.]

and the top layer of the paper clip thing is scratched off so i’m gonna have to paint over it aaaaaa