>"Rube's drawings depict absurdly-connected machines functioning in
>extremely complex and and roundabout ways to produce a simple end result;
>because of this RUBE GOLDBERG has become associated with any convoluted
>system of achieving a basic task."
>
>The point is that Rube did not use junk box parts to save money or to use
>what was at hand. He would often go out and buy new parts over the
>counter.
>
This conclusion is a non-sequitor.
The RG solution was to grab a common item and employ it more or less
logically to solve one step in an convoluted chain of functions that
posesses no overall coherence.
Unless <irony> was intended in your observation . . .
Bill K2AME
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