Comments on: Buy them all and build it at home!

Buy them all and build it at home!

goodnewsfortheinsane — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:02:30 -0800

You got your Rube Goldberg machine in my department store catalogue. (Or the other way around, I'm not sure.)

By: delmoi

delmoi — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:16:04 -0800

I like that the Dutch word for boombox is "ghettoblaster"

By: piratebowling

piratebowling — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:16:49 -0800

Awesome.

By: Totally Zanzibarin' Ya

Totally Zanzibarin' Ya — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:19:38 -0800

OH SHIT! I TOTALLY FUCKED UP THIS WEBSI...oh.

By: amyms

amyms — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:19:52 -0800

Very clever.

By: Totally Zanzibarin' Ya

Totally Zanzibarin' Ya — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:21:57 -0800

I mean, OH CRAP! I TOTALLY MESSED UP THIS WEBSI...oh. /family version

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:27:39 -0800

I can only imagine what the pitch meeting was for this. "The web department has lost their fucking minds."

By: backseatpilot

backseatpilot — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:28:40 -0800

"The web department has lost their fucking minds." At least they didn't come in shooting.

By: strontiumdog

strontiumdog — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:32:13 -0800

absolutely, stupendously, outrageously awesome. no seriously, that was cool.

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:34:31 -0800

That really is amazingly cool.

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:38:02 -0800

Very neat. I liked that a lot.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:41:41 -0800

For fuck's sake. What did you people do to my Web site?

By: caddis

caddis — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:42:19 -0800

beautiful

By: kcds

kcds — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:43:06 -0800

I like that the Dutch word for boombox is "ghettoblaster" Well of course technically that would be the British English word for boom box, that the Dutch have adopted. The same device was also sometimes called a Brixton briefcase. /derail

By: Mr_Zero

Mr_Zero — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:45:29 -0800

I like the tune at the end. Well done.

By: Sam.Burdick

Sam.Burdick — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:47:36 -0800

I laughed, I cried , I blew snot out my nose which hit my cat, she leapt off the sofa and clung to the coat rack that fell over and knocked my wife unconcious.... she doesn't think it's funny. Do I live a sad-sad life of Rube Goldberg love?

By: gemmy

gemmy — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:51:16 -0800

Surprisingly awesome!

By: blacklite

blacklite — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:51:49 -0800

"Ghettoblaster": I didn't even think about it until now. It was the term that older people used, at least to me, it sounded as ridiculous to my born-in-the-80s ears as "boombox". I guess it kind of does have the word ghetto in it, doesn't it. There is, of course, a section in Wikipedia on it.

By: jefbla

jefbla — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:59:38 -0800

Ok that was fun and all, but seriously, who's gonna clean this shit up? I need to purchase some jip and janneke bekers and a couple of luierpakjes. It's for christmas gifts, HELLO! It's already November and this site is a fucking disaster! WHAT THE FUCK AM I GONNA DO NOW! CHRISTMAS IS FUCKING RUINED!

By: Item

Item — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:11:15 -0800

The same device was also sometimes called a Brixton briefcase ...and I am 100% certain that before it was called that it was known as a 'Harlem briefcase'. USA!

By: empath

empath — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:15:33 -0800

That was too clever for words. A good idea well implemented.

By: Mercaptan

Mercaptan — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:18:05 -0800

item: Unless it's a "Haarlem Briefcase", which would be the original after all.

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:18:13 -0800

And, of course, bringing it full circle, the original Haarlem is, as you well know, in Holland.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:18:51 -0800

Either we broke it or it's down now or something - what's it supposed to do?

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:19:13 -0800

Gaddamtit! What, 30 seconds earlier?

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:28:46 -0800

agoddamdorable

By: anthill

anthill — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:30:04 -0800

And, of course, bringing it full circle, the original Haarlem is, as you well know, in Holland. Even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it I can't say...

By: yhbc

yhbc — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:31:28 -0800

still not connecting for me

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:34:07 -0800

Maybe they liked it better that way?

By: rtha

rtha — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:39:03 -0800

Loved it.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:42:40 -0800

Why the fuck are my linens on fire?

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:44:01 -0800

"uw bestelling kunt u" - just caught my eye in the right-hand sidebar...

By: yhbc

yhbc — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:46:08 -0800

Am I the only person who can't connect to this website, whatever it is?

By: Mr_Zero

Mr_Zero — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:47:54 -0800

Am I the only person who can't connect to this website, whatever it is? Yes

By: yhbc

yhbc — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:50:46 -0800

Well, okay then. Carry on.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:58:20 -0800

Hated this. Not charming at all. Ban everyone in this thread. What were those prices again?

By: ashbury

ashbury — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:05:12 -0800

beyootiful! udderly fantastic! I loves me some rube, wonderful, flashy rube. In other words, thanks for the link, twas very cool. try again, commish.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:06:15 -0800

Okay, from googling the tags, I gather this is some kind of flash thingy that was twittered to death about 3-4 days ago, and involves some Dutch company. The twitter comments also frequently reference "Rube Goldberg", sometimes when it's the only english phrase in a sea of Dutch. I'm at least convinced this is real. Does anyone have any constructive ideas as to why I can't access it?

By: Jikido

Jikido — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:11:49 -0800

item: third world briefcase?

By: ashbury

ashbury — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:17:11 -0800

yhbc, do you have adblock? If so, you might have the flash overlay thing-y on, or off or something.

By: ashbury

ashbury — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:19:06 -0800

mabye try the google cache?

By: rokusan

rokusan — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:19:10 -0800

The twitter comments also frequently reference "Rube Goldberg", sometimes when it's the only english phrase in a sea of Dutch. Hmmm.... which words are English, there?

By: yhbc

yhbc — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:27:45 -0800

Hmm. All I get from the google cache page is an ominous-looking You need to upgrade your Flash Player I also notice there's a firefox extension on the google cache page. It is a combination of me using IE6 and something to do with my Flash player? I've tried it a dozen times at least, and all I get is the "this page cannot be displayed" screen. Oh well.

By: Pants!

Pants! — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:38:24 -0800

I tried to scroll down. I am a complete failure.

By: Bonzai

Bonzai — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:38:33 -0800

Too bad. It was cool.

By: ashbury

ashbury — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:41:13 -0800

yhbc, that's the problem right there: you need to switch to firefox, years ago.

By: defenestration

defenestration — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:42:36 -0800

So great. I, too, tried scrolling down at first.

By: humannaire

humannaire — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:44:16 -0800

As a matter of fact, I said the expression "ghetto blaster" in a conversation today. And it felt strange!

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:49:02 -0800

Hmmm.... which words are English, there? Why do you have to act like such a total rube?

By: Jenafeef

Jenafeef — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:00:00 -0800

I love Dutch words. Cup = beker.

By: philomathoholic

philomathoholic — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:20:50 -0800

Hmm, what kind of astroturfing (in Dutch no less!) crap is... Oh, it's doing something... Seriously though, this is cool.

By: unSane

unSane — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:24:50 -0800

Now, you see, that IS the best of the web.

By: Zinger

Zinger — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:24:51 -0800

Well that was lots of fun. Bets on when we can expect to see the "Animator vs Animated III - Hema Smackdown" mashup?

By: darth_tedious

darth_tedious — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:34:18 -0800

Well, maybe this is Rube Goldberg-inspired. Maybe, though, it's just haunted.

By: ethnomethodologist

ethnomethodologist — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:42:27 -0800

Oh jeez I had my speakers turned waaaaay up- scared the shit outta me.

By: Justinian

Justinian — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:45:03 -0800

This thing is loading slower than RealPlayer over a 300 baud modem.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:35:33 -0800

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it I can't say... Because the Grand Old Duke of York kicked their Dutch asses and took it away from them.

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:07:17 -0800

justinian: The Coral Cached version loads up very fast for me.

By: oats

oats — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:36:00 -0800

anthill: it's nobody's business but the Turks.