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That's a real Woolagong

posted by Zed on April 14 2006 07:51

Everyone else has linked to it, so why not me? These short Rube Goldberg machines from a Japanese TV show are like baby versions of the Honda Cog Commercial.

I learned from A Word a Day that a Brit might say Heath Robinson where Americans would say “Rube Goldberg.” According to an A Word a Day letter writer, in Denmark, it’s a “Storm P,” and according to the Wikipedia, in Japan, it’s a Pythagorean machine.

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