Re: NNG: Hey, Rube . . . 
| May 09, 2016 06:20PM |
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John West Wrote:
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> I stumbled across this on the McCloud
> River Railroad while on a fishing trip in
> 1958. Only years later did I learn it was
> a McGiffert, I thought it was some kind
> of local rube goldberg machine.
Hey, John -
In keeping with my sworn duty as a Curmudgeon to be thoroughly nitpicky - if not downright Cantankerous - I feel compelled
to point out that Rube Goldberg - as the proper name of a (fictitious?) inventor - should SFAIK be capitalized . . .
- Willie
p.s. If you were fishing the McCloud River in August of 1958 you might have encountered Roosso's dad. Or even Roosso himself!!
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> I stumbled across this on the McCloud
> River Railroad while on a fishing trip in
> 1958. Only years later did I learn it was
> a McGiffert, I thought it was some kind
> of local rube goldberg machine.
Hey, John -
In keeping with my sworn duty as a Curmudgeon to be thoroughly nitpicky - if not downright Cantankerous - I feel compelled
to point out that Rube Goldberg - as the proper name of a (fictitious?) inventor - should SFAIK be capitalized . . .
- Willie
p.s. If you were fishing the McCloud River in August of 1958 you might have encountered Roosso's dad. Or even Roosso himself!!
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