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Old November 4th 04, 08:39 AM
Ian White, G3SEK
 
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Dave Piggin wrote:
What is a 'Heath Robinson' idea? Is that something desirable?
Gary
Typicaly a British bit of vocabalry, meaning "Any other answer or
thing I could do to make it work" in it's simplist term. Dave d;-)



William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) was the first to see the humour in
drawing fantastically complicated machines.

The closest translation into US English is "Rube Goldberg".


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