You've just posted that "reply" to a thread with repair in the title
on a board with repair in the title.

You're rather missing the point.

The reference is to a character in Lucretia Peabody Hale's short stories
"The Peterkin Papers". Said lady was a fountain of common sense, giving
simple solutions to what appeared -- to the Peterkins -- to be complicated
problems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peterkin_Papers