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Re: [OM] Re: Who is Rube Goldberg (was mystery 38 f2.8)

Subject: Re: [OM] Re: Who is Rube Goldberg (was mystery 38 f2.8)
From: "Ian A. Nichols" <I.A.Nichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:06:31 +0000 (GMT)

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 HI100@xxxxxxx wrote:

> 
> There is actually, an equivalent Anglophile version of "Rube Goldberg" : 
> "Heath Robinson".  Similar complex contraptions for simple ideas.

At a more practical level, there was that guy who used to make the crazy
doorbells on  Vision-On (Children's TV programme from the '70s).  Sorry,
forgotten his name.

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