{"id":267,"date":"2003-06-16T19:04:57","date_gmt":"2003-06-17T02:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/16\/rube-goldberg-honda-edition\/"},"modified":"2008-01-20T19:07:31","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T02:07:31","slug":"rube-goldberg-honda-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/16\/rube-goldberg-honda-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Rube Goldberg Honda edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I took a quiet night in and watched                 the C-SPAN book TV special featuring Molly Ivins, Bill O&#8217;Reilly                 and Al Franken. Al has an extensive interview in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story.html?StoryID=16157\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet                 article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wow. I&#8217;m fascinated that this <a href=\"http:\/\/home.attbi.com\/%7Ebernhard36\/honda-ad.html\" target=\"_blank\">UK                   Honda commerical<\/a> utilizing a Rube Goldberg device structure                   took 606 takes to get done correctly, six million dollars to                   create, and used NO computer graphics or digital effects.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;I                         gave Speaker of the House Tip O&#8217;Neill the gavel medallion,                         and Ralph Nader the one with the Corvair on it. It looked                         great with his Nehru jacket.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Bud E. Luv, on jewelry, from his book &#8220;You Oughta Be Me&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Woody Allen an intermediary for US-Franco relations? <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/in_depth\/uk\/2000\/newsmakers\/2987484.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Yes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Someone defaced the Labour Party website.<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/2993550.stm\" target=\"_blank\"> Is                   Tony Blair man&#8217;s best friend? Maybe just Dubya&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">The CD minimum advertised price settlement has                 been settled. If you signed up for it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musiccdsettlement.com\/english\/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\">you&#8217;ll                 receive a check for $13<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/16\/rube-goldberg-honda-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I took a quiet night in and watched the C-SPAN book TV special featuring Molly Ivins, Bill O&#8217;Reilly and Al Franken. Al has an extensive interview in this Alternet article. Wow. I&#8217;m fascinated that this UK Honda commerical utilizing a Rube Goldberg device structure took 606 takes to get done correctly, six million &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/16\/rube-goldberg-honda-edition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rube Goldberg Honda edition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/06\/16\/rube-goldberg-honda-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}