Anyone else old enough to remember Rube Goldberg?

[voluptuary_manque]

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

 

[TE999]

I sure do. His name has passed into the language thanks to his comic strip of 'inventions'.

Here's Wiki on Rube http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg

That's one clever contraption on the clip. Rube would have been proud.

 

[Liar]

The chess part was pretty clever.


Here's a Rube Goldberg music video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Another great version . . . "The Cog." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve4M4UsJQo

 

[Loring2]

Certainly ....

Rube Goldberg has been the very essence of my life for many decades now.

Rube and I lived by the same simple theorem.

KEEP IT SIMPLE ... STUPID.

 

[Handley_Page]

Reminds me of Caractacus Potts.
Damned clever, though.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Rube Goldberg has been replaced by female impersonators providing make-up guidance for teen guys. Its in the paper today. A local Gay guy helps boys get their Revlon right.

No doubt Cosmetics will replace woodshop in all the schools.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I grew up with Erector Sets and Sterno Steam-engines, and home-brewed much of the crap that used to fascinate boys. I do the same today. Kids of the 50s were compelled to innovate. Rube Goldberg was part of it.

When I worked as a civil engineer I was forever confronted with crises requiring creative solutions. Like, how do you get a heavy machine to the bottom of a deep pit without a crane?

Fill the pit with sand, move the machine atop the sand, and remove the sand.

The most challenging work I ever did was mark the location of bulkhead cuts on ships in drydock. There are no level planes to work with, ventilation pipe doesnt flex at all (its steel plate), and Coast Guard inspectors cut no slack with allowable tolerances.

Kids today play games and rarely make anythng but babies.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

My son and I are in a constant search for new Rube Goldberg ideas. Any given day I can walk into his room and trip over whatever new contraption he worked up. The clips are awesome, but I have to copy and paste to show him.

12 is a bit too young to see dad's Lit account.

 

[Liar]

Did anyone but me play this in the 90's?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLMhUVavZBk

 

[voluptuary_manque]

The chess part was pretty clever.


Here's a Rube Goldberg music video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

Oh, that was brilliant! Wouldn't it be fun to have an empty warehouse as a playroom? And lots of old junk to play with? Wow, just wow . . .

 

[Loring2]

Why James

Rube Goldberg has been replaced by female impersonators providing make-up guidance for teen guys. Its in the paper today. A local Gay guy helps boys get their Revlon right.

No doubt Cosmetics will replace woodshop in all the schools.

Smearing your lipstick is so gauche ... puhlease. So there.

 

[Loring2]

No But ...

Did anyone but me play this in the 90's?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLMhUVavZBk

It looks like a great and addkictive game. Am I right?
You're much younger than I ... sigh.

 

[Loring2]

Manque

Oh, that was brilliant! Wouldn't it be fun to have an empty warehouse as a playroom? And lots of old junk to play with? Wow, just wow . . .

Magnificent ... somebody finally figured out what to do with his spare time

 

[Liar]

It looks like a great and addkictive game. Am I right?
You're much younger than I ... sigh.

Try it out for yourself.

http://www.bestoldgames.net/eng/old-games/the-incredible-machine.php

Not exactly sure how it runs on a modern machine, but it's supposed to work.

ETA: Seems you might need an emulator though.

http://windows7themes.net/how-to-play-dos-games-on-windows-7.html

 

[SlickTony]

Shoot, I remember Rube Goldberg. If I had a dollar for every time i referred to a "Rube Goldberg contraption" I wouldn't have to worry about money.

 

[ShyChiWriter]

One of my favorite Goldberg contraptions is the way Dick Van Dyke makes breakfast in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, down to a chicken laying an egg that gets broken onto a plate - then cooked on that same plate after going down a roller-coasterish track.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Smearing your lipstick is so gauche ... puhlease. So there.

The training will come in handy when the Marines drop their DONT KISS AND TELL policy.