To my Web-savvy friends, I looked like a rube who had fallen for a prank.
Rube: States the amount, in the form of a question, often sounding more like a plea.
And as he grew up, the mystique of the Rube Goldberg machine didn't leave him.
The young rube who picks her up hitchhiking early in her odyssey should count himself lucky.
If you're sitting at the poker table and you don't know who the rube is, it's you.
How in the world can anyone transmit a distinctive personal touch and feel through that Rube Goldberg apparatus?
WP8 entails a Rube Goldberg system involving several interfaces and requires the Internet.
Along with the very good, Wall Street also churns out garbage for any rube foolish enough to buy it.
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So, like any kludged system, the maintenance of the exceptions degrades the performance of the whole, crazy, Rube Goldberg machine.
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"You just saw, " Perez belted out, "a successful Rube Goldberg chain reaction!"
Russia officially joined the World Trade Organization today, completing a Rube Goldberg-like process that has gone on for almost two full decades.
The same critics who complain about the Morris technique whine that Morris tags Reagan as a middlebrow rube, an airhead and as intellectually incurious.
This is necessary to deal with the myriad insurance billing schemes that can best be described as a Gordian Knot designed by Rube Goldberg.
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The same critics who complain about this unconventional technique whine that Morris tags Reagan as a middlebrow rube, an airhead and as intellectually incurious.
Born Walter Matuchanskayasky, he had a posture designed by Rube Goldberg and a lovely snarl of a voice that cut like a foreclosure notice.
It was a three-year undertaking but the Rube Goldberg contraption soon exploded.
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Not surprisingly, this externally imposed Rube Goldberg arrangement proved utterly unworkable.
Take "Donkey Kong's Crash Course, " which has you tilting the GamePad left or right to steer a rickety roller through a zany Rube Goldberg-ish obstacle course.
Yes, some lawyers are needed if for no other reason than to figure out how new loopholes, deductions, credits, and other provisions can be integrated into Rube-Goldberg monstrosity of existing law.
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But even if President Obama were to be reelected, his Rube Goldberg health law may well implode from the nearly impossible task of re-engineering one-sixth of our economy to fit his centrally-controlled archetype.
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Toppings are traditional and locally sourced where possible such as the creamy buffalo mozzarella delivered from a farm in Somerset and are best washed down with a glass of organic Ottavio Rube Italian wine.
This may mean that Andrx and Genpharm can appeal the decision while keeping KUDco's generic off the market. (Andrx says it will likely appeal.) However, it is not clear that such a Rube Goldberg strategy will work.
Alas, all it succeeds in doing with its Rube Goldberg fix-up, however, is fouling up the foul up even more, fomenting more discontent and inflicting more hurt as its geniuses attempt to convert the sinking ship into a flying ark.
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Counterparties like Goldman Sachs, knowing it could use the bankruptcy laws to force AIG to sell high quality assets to pay off its gambling debts, played them like a Vegas card sharp never losing a minute of sleep worrying that the rube might go broke.
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Mr. Sonnenfeld emphasized the matter of choice during a lunchtime show-and-tell that included photographs of a modern 3-D camera modern in the sense of all the things it can do, but Rube Goldberg-retro in the sense of an enormous, and enormously cumbersome, rig with ancillary gizmos piled atop gizmos like some Watts Tower of digital power.
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