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Rube Goldberg

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The Resume

    (July 4, 1883-December 7, 1970)
    Birth name is Ruben Lucius Goldberg
    Created cartoon devices in which they involve many steps in order to perform a simple task
    Co-founder and first president of the National Cartoonists Society (1946)
    Drew cartoons for several newspapers and trade journals, including 'The New York Evening Mail’ and the ‘New York Evening Journal’ (1915-64)

Why he might be annoying:

    He worked as an engineer for the San Francisco Water and Sewer Department, immediately after graduating college, but left after a few months.
    He creates ludicrous inventions that involves several steps just to perform one simple task.
    He created cartoons with such titles as ‘Boob McNutt,’ ‘Boobs Abroad,‘ and ‘Lala Palooza.’
    He also created a character named Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts.
    He smoked cigars.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He earned an engineering degree at University of California, Berkeley (1904).
    His work was often imitated and very popular in movies and TV (A couple of examples are exhibited from ‘Back to the Future III’ and ‘Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure.’
    The game 'Mouse Trap' was based on his idea.
    He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning (1948).
    During his retirement, he created bronze sculptures.
    ‘Rube Goldberg Inventions' was one of 20 strips included in the ‘Comic Strip Classics’ series of commemorative US postage stamps (1995).

Credit: 12 String


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 36.36% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 6 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 18 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 25 Votes: 44.00% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 13 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 75 Votes: 49.33% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 66 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 76 Votes: 57.89% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 47 Votes: 36.17% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 32 Votes: 31.25% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 102 Votes: 46.08% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 106 Votes: 43.40% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 109 Votes: 25.69% Annoying