I wish I could show you that contraption.

Trying to complete a journey before this contraption blows up.

Why, you lowliving contraption. I ought to take a can opener to you.

I mean it this time! I'll never get this boneheaded contraption to work!

And then, let's make this really big contraption that you have to rig up to it in this daisy chain.

The Eggmobile is a very rickety contraption it looks like a prairie schooner made out of boards but it houses 350 chickens.

Now, for those of you who don't know, a Rube Goldberg machine is a complicated contraption, an incredibly over engineered piece of machinery that accomplishes a relatively simple task.

And I get on the car, and I look, and I notice this couple, college aged, student looking kids, a guy and a girl, and they're sitting next to each other, and she's got her leg draped over his knee, and they're doing they have this little contraption, and they're tying these knots, and they're doing it with one hand, they're doing it left handed and right handed very quickly, and then she'll hand the thing to him and he'll do it.