Goldberg Effect

When a company intentionally invents new "schools of thought" with profit as the major incentive.

"Oh damn, those narcotics companies totally invented grammar to force more people into abuse! That's a classic Goldberg Effect!"

by Lil Giffel January 10, 2022

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Rube Goldberg

An unlikely and absurdly designed machine intended to perform a simple function in the most complicated and indirect way. Named in honor of Reuben Lucius Goldberg (1883-1970), an engineer with the City of San Francisco Water and Sewers Department who became a Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist, sculptor and author. His long-running comic strip, "Inventions", displayed many such devices of his own design.

My Grandfather built his own fuel injector with a Rube Goldberg set-up made of old plumbing parts.

by Unidyne December 29, 2003

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Goldberg Website

n. A website that is deliberately designed to use too many computer resources to do a simple task, usually causing browser crashes and freezes.

Named after Rube Goldberg's "Goldberg Machines."

Man, my browser has spent most of its time locked up ever since YouTube became a Goldberg Website.

by The Ceej February 16, 2013

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Goofberry

Goofberry is a name used to call someone silly but in a friendly and effectionate way. A girlfriend or boyfriend may say it to their partner.

A guy tells his girlfriend a bad joke and she may smile, throw her eyes up and call him a goofberry for being silly.

by Manix September 2, 2007

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Goldbergmanstein

A fictional derrogatory name that is used to address people of European Jewish extract, esp. when they are behaving in a stereotypical manner.

Rabbi Goldbergmanstein on the phone here wants to know if he can get a second discount considering the fact that he has another copy of the same coupon...

by psychosufi October 6, 2011

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