In Vernon, Mr. Burke said the town might tinker with the ordinance, possibly by adding a bit of legalese to the list of exemptions, something along the lines of exempting young people pursuing their First Amendment rights of speech and assembly.
"There was nothing to do in those towns except drink and tinker," Mr. Gurstelle said.
A reupholsterer of antiques by trade and a congenital loser by nature, Bob spends his free hours in the (amazingly named) fictional town of St. Nils tinkering with a device he calls the Communicator, whose purpose is to breach the wall separating the living and the dead.
Robert Noyce concluded it was because in a small town you became a technician, a tinker, an engineer, and an inventor, by necessity.
Both his father and grandfather were engineers, and when Mark was a boy growing up in a small town in Kentucky, there were always tinkering projects going on around the house.
If the number of players is not a multiple of 4, and you must deviate from the normal 3-to-1 Town to Mafia ratio, then some tinkering of the game is necessary to maintain fairness.
Like the women of Eastwick when devilish Darryl van Horne comes to town, Cameron Mackintosh's newest musical has been tinkered with.
Growing up as a bunch of brats in a small town, it was either that, soccer, or tinkering with mopeds.
Growing up as a bunch of brats in a small town, it was either that, football or tinkering with mopeds.
Typically what happens is, I sit in my basement music room, a rehearsal space that I rent on the edge of town, and I sit in there and riff away and tinker away until I have a batch of material.
