Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for January 07, 2025

Contraptions are what you get when all the doodads, gizmos, gadgets and thingmajigs go together.

Is that a newfangled contraption?

The Spanish term is “comosellama”, or in certain contexts, “comosedice”.

Does this mean that he doesn’t know the difference between a gizmo and a gadget?

Don’t forget doohickey.

Don’t mislay the Floggle-Toggle!

Wheres Corky? He should definitely be in on this class.

You want thingamabobs?

I’ve got twenty.

Whatchamacallits.

Can’t wait for the April 1st class.

Jimbo gets the terminology correct. Aren’t watchamacallits edible?

There is a specific electronic device called a “Gimmick”.

Words you use when your brain doesn’t want to give you the correct word.

Jimbo’s been at the thesaurus again.

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A light bulb socket, PC microphone with loose wires, stereo audio mixer, and a subwoofer speaker. I have all of that stuff.

Howsabout whatnots and whatsits? Got any of those? One of my favorite science fiction short stories is titled “The Widget, the Wadget, and Boff.” Ah, English. . .my favorite language. . .

No whoseewhatsits?

Be grateful Jimbo those kids are still young to look up the dictionary definitions

Don’t forget your whatzit or your whachamacallit!

Red Green: “Any tool can be the right tool.”

Don’t forget “gosinto” as in this goes into something.

The Old Sarge has a big workshop. Pretty sure he has at least two of each of those.

My favorite nonsense name is the doo-thingy

Contraptions were once identified with names: Rube Goldberg in the USA and Heath Robinson in the UK.

I’ll give you a Doohickey and 2 whatchamacallit’s for that last one

Widgets.

This common form of nomenclature actually works better than any technical jargon when describing parts and their uses to non-specialists.

This is the time to tell the children to study their math and science – engineering is the big brother of mechanics.

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