Russell Gold wrote:
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> At 10:25 AM +0100 7/4/01, Jari Worsley wrote:
> >Russell Gold wrote:
> > > BTW, who is "Heath Robinson"?
> >
> >A Victorian artist, known for producing cartoon sketches, and
> >particularly for absurd machines, hence the phrase in the UK of
> >describing something as "a Heath Robinson affair" - you know the sort of
> >weird and wacky machines you get in RoadRunner cartoons from ACME
> >corporation? Well he drew sketches like that at the turn of the century.
>
> Ah, possibly the UK equivalent of Rube Goldberg, who did the same.
yes , very similar. looked at a biog of Rube, they seemed to live
parallel lives -
both working in early part of 20th century,
both artists
both taking the piss out of machinery at the time.
Must have been a cultural thang for dealing with post-industrial
revolution, maybe.
i wonder who the equivalent cartoonist is today commenting on high
tech?
Scott Adams with Dilbert maybe?
who else I wonder...
Jari
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Jari Worsley
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