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Rube Goldberg-esque pool trick shot

David Pescovitz at 1:20 pm Thu, Apr 10, 2008

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Trickshotttt If Rube Goldberg played pool, he'd set up trick shots like the gent in this video.
Link (Thanks, Gabe "TuneUp" Adiv!)

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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  • Stuart Ellis

    My mother e-mailed this on to me ages ago.

  • FrankenPengie

    domino topple ≠ Rube Goldberg device

  • Takuan

    you must be very proud of her

  • mmbb

    trick setup, not trick shot. where are the masse shots, the rail bounces, any english on the cue ball?

  • Stuart Ellis

    My point was that it’s kinda old news…

    But she is pretty hip for someone in her 60′s…

  • Antinous

    Did you think that this was CNN?

  • Belac

    MMBB,
    Good point. Better if he sank all the balls without knocking over any of the dominos.

  • pumilio

    I can only imagine how long that took to set up, time well wasted.

  • montauk

    I’m inclined to agree with MMBB and some of the youtubers (!) – this isn’t really a trick shot. Even as a “Mousetrap” stunt, the ball rolling down the cue is impressive, but everything else is just different configurations of the same technique. I’d like to see the balls enter the pockets of their own volition.

  • doubleagame

    wyld.

  • twopeak

    The funnyest part is the french: 2 men are discussing how great it is. Towards the end a woman says “all this serves nothing, it’s useless” on what the men answer “c’est con une fille“: “woman are dumb/stupid”.