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RubeGoldberg
Rube Goldberg (ro͞obʹ) adj.
Of, relating to, or being a contrivance that brings about by complicated means what apparently could have been accomplished simply.
  [After Reuben Lucius (“Rube”) Goldberg (1883-1970), American cartoonist noted for his intricate diagrams of such contrivances.]

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