You gotta love engineers

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http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/player.swf?b=10&l=197&u=ILLUMllSOOAvIF//P_LxP92A42lCHCeeWCejXnHAS/c

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Isn't that a Whoopee Goldberg Machine?

[Omega]

You mean a Rube Goldberg machine.

I make those quite often, on my desk with junk lying around =p

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Isn't that a Whoopee Goldberg Machine?

Post of the year!

[Trace]

Oops, wrong thing. (Actor not machine!) I meant Rube Goldberg! I swear I know the difference. It's kinda late where I am right now and I never talk about either.

Thanks, glad to have gotten "Post of The Year"!

[xmastree]

hmm... how much of that is real?

Rube Goldberg? Never heard of him, but a quick search reveals that he appears to be an American version of the Great W. Heath Robinson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_Robinson)

The machines were frequently powered by steam boilers or kettles, heated by candles or a spirit lamp; often there would be complex pulley arrangements, threaded by lengths of knotted string. Robinson's cartoons were so popular, that even to this day in Britain, the name "Heath Robinson" is used as shorthand for an improbable, rickety machine barely kept going by incessant tinkering. (The corresponding term in the US is Rube Goldberg machine, after an American cartoonist with an equal devotion to odd machinery.)

[Omega]

...engineers you say?

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