RUBE GOLBERG

Rube Goleberg was a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist who satirized the technology of modern times. As one of the most well know cartoonist in all of history and founder of The National Cartoonist Society, Rube was awarded a Pulitzer and the National Cartoonist Societies Key Award; posthumously.

So what is it that makes old Rube so interesting you ask? His character Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts. Proff. Butts was known for his complicated, ramshackle contraptions that performed simple task in ludicrously complex ways. Think Tom and Jerry, Wile E. Coyote, and Peter Griffin. Through his "INVENTIONS", Rube and Prof. Butts discovered difficult ways to achieve easy results. His cartoons were symbols of man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to accomplish minimal results.

Example: The automatic stamp licker. A robot dumps a can of ants onto upturned stamps, a starving anteater licks up the ants, thus moistening the stamps.

Mr. Fox, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

So where does this lead us? Hopefully not worse off then where you started.