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Big thanks to Stel Simonton, great name, one of the great house stuff works.com writers.

And I am really thrilled with this one because I had always known about and heard the term

and fully understood what Ruben Goldberg meant.

A Ruben Goldberg machine is something that is really complex and kind of awesome and

it's usually some kind of crazy contraption that ends up doing something very, very simply

in a way that's far too complicated than it needs to be.

And I know that because it's a very common term, it's been around since in the dictionary

actually since 1931.

I never until like yesterday knew that Ruben Goldberg was like a dude and he was a cartoonist.

And that's where it came from.

He drew cartoons about these machines.

It was very popular for it.

Yeah, for sure.

I guess I knew that already and I'm not sure.

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