heath robinson machine from the new youtube

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heath robinson machine from the new youtube

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bit of an anti-climax, but it does have stuff on fire:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b1f_1178748987
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It's not a proper Heath Robinson contraption cause it uses candles which are already lit.
Those bits could be skipped, though, so the rest holds up to scrutiny.

Also, it's not really a Heath Robinson contraption cause it doesn't do anything at the end.

Also, how can that be the new YouTube when it doesn't do fullscreen properly? (It squashes the picture).
Also, that site has a crap name, unlike YouTube.
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Post by phantasmagoria »

it's not called a heath robinson machine. heath robinson machines are different. They usually have a perpose, like perpetually feeding someone. heath robinson was an illustrator.

What you mean is a Rube Goldberg machine :)
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Post by DTS »

phantasmagoria wrote:it's not called a heath robinson machine. heath robinson machines are different. They usually have a perpose, like perpetually feeding someone. heath robinson was an illustrator.

What you mean is a Rube Goldberg machine :)
Wikipedia says that they mean the same thing, or "simmilar", as they put it. It says that Rube Goldberg was an illustrator aswell. The only difference apparently is a Rube Goldberg machine can mean an overly complicated system of any kind. That and Heat Robinson did his illustrations decades earlier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_Robinson
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phantasmagoria wrote:What you mean is a Rube Goldberg machine :)
aye, my bad - but i hope you both die of complications from treating a yeast infection for providing such utterly fucking dull replies.
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DTS wrote:It's not a proper Heath Robinson contraption cause it uses candles which are already lit.
Those bits could be skipped, though, so the rest holds up to scrutiny.

Also, it's not really a Heath Robinson contraption cause it doesn't do anything at the end.

Also, how can that be the new YouTube when it doesn't do fullscreen properly? (It squashes the picture).
Also, that site has a crap name, unlike YouTube.
my god, the rumours are true: you really are fucking boring
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Post by MKJ »

DTS wrote:
phantasmagoria wrote:it's not called a heath robinson machine. heath robinson machines are different. They usually have a perpose, like perpetually feeding someone. heath robinson was an illustrator.

What you mean is a Rube Goldberg machine :)
Wikipedia says that they mean the same thing, or "simmilar", as they put it. It says that Rube Goldberg was an illustrator aswell. The only difference apparently is a Rube Goldberg machine can mean an overly complicated system of any kind. That and Heat Robinson did his illustrations decades earlier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_Robinson
please read the articles more closely and find out the difference between the two.

this is a rube goldberg machine
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today is 05/06/07
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I like how this thingamajig uses a lot of flaming objects & fireworks. :icon14:
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It is now 16:17 local time.
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