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Re: how to share a Coke
by Guest Fri 22 Mar 2013, 3:20 pm
Thanks for the morning smile Don, that's a good one.
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Re: how to share a Coke
by Skid Fri 22 Mar 2013, 5:03 pm
Clever. That's the old toppling dominoes thing.
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Re: how to share a Coke
by wisdonm Fri 22 Mar 2013, 5:32 pm
It's actually an example of a Rube Goldberg machine.
A Rube Goldberg machine, contraption, invention, device, or apparatus is a deliberately over-engineered or overdone machine that performs a very simple task in a very complex fashion, usually including a chain reaction. The expression is named after American cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg (1883–1970).
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Re: how to share a Coke
by webby Sat 23 Mar 2013, 7:01 am
wisdonm wrote:It's actually an example of a Rube Goldberg machine.A Rube Goldberg machine, contraption, invention, device, or apparatus is a deliberately over-engineered or overdone machine that performs a very simple task in a very complex fashion, usually including a chain reaction. The expression is named after American cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg (1883–1970).
Or Heath Robinson to the Commonwealth countries. Either way we've all encounted it in real life!
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