One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for January 31, 2021

I’d notice the carpet and the furniture too.

For those who may not know who Rube Goldberg was…https://www.rubegoldberg.com/

I took my mother to the Smithsonian Air and Space museum once. After several hours of touring she said “why do they have so many different types of airplanes? Wouldn’t one do?”

Reminds me of the Mousetrap game.

Kudos to Rick to attempt to illustrate a Rube Goldberg device in a comic strip. Some undertaking.

Yeah, you’d think with CGI they would have nice carpets. But it’s entertaining. Like this is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9VkOepxw9U

I guess she was never at my parents’ house (multiple hues of both blue & green, in a sculpted shag; installed in ’76 and still there).

I used to really enjoy those “catch a mouse” machines on the cartoons. My introduction to physics.

I saw one set up in a back yard that must have been several acres with a couple of sheds. The device was so elaborate, crossing a creek, in and out of the sheds, all over everywhere in that “yard”. It was great!

“Pitagora Suichi!”

That is a lot of work.

I noticed the carpet too, but I notice a lot of things that I don’t comment on. Women, like my wife, and his mother, do comment.

One of the intros on Turner Classic Movies is a Rube Goldberg machine.