Heard on MythBusters:

[Wilson Gray]

"It took _me_ a hammer [and other tools] to destroy this car."

She probably was aiming for

"It took a hammer [and other tools] _for me_ to destroy this car."

Of course,

Youneverknow.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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