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Saraya - Timeless Love MadVeeblefetzer 4,290 views Though we'll never live this Moment again The clock is tickin' away in vain Time itself has chased us down But we've tricked it at it's own Game Nothing to keep me from...
Paradise Lost - How Soon Is Now (Charmed) (The Smiths cover) MadVeeblefetzer 43,123 views Charmed is an American television series that originally ran for eight seasons (October 1998May 21st, 2006) on the now defunct Warner Brothers Television Network and is cur...
Cathedral - Equilibrium (Stereo) (Christian Bale & Emily Watson) MadVeeblefetzer 9,249 views Lost in the battlefield of opposite extremes I ponder the embankment that stands in between The monochrome and color entirety I see the beauty and chaos of fate and dest...
Dokken - One (Stereo) (Wedding Crashers) MadVeeblefetzer 39,311 views One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do Two can be as bad as one It's the loneliest number since the number one-uh No is the saddest experience that you'll ever ...
Babylon A.D. - Caught Up in the Crossfire (Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century) MadVeeblefetzer 28,519 views Hearts beat heavy Love is in motion (ah) Hot, sweet and ready I dive in your ocean (ah, oh) Feels like I'm falling Deeper in the shadows of your Passionate screams,...
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Two Towers Music Video MadVeeblefetzer 1,955 views The Two Towers is the second volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. It is preceded by The Fellowship of the Ring and followed by The Return ...
Pat Benatar - Fire and Ice (Stereo) MadVeeblefetzer 3,936 views Ooo, you're givin' me the fever tonight I don't wanna give in I'd be playin' with fire You forget, I've seen you work before Take `em straight to the top Leave `em cry...
Triumph - Somebody's Out There MadVeeblefetzer 10,416 views Is it fate or random chance How can I decide Are we victims of circumstance When destinies collide All the odds are against you But somehow you make it through You ca...
Stupid Criminal in Stereo! MadVeeblefetzer 37,538 views
The Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut (Russian: Су-47 Беркут - Golden Eagle) MadVeeblefetzer 25,294 views The Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut (Russian: Су-47 Беркут - Golden Eagle), also designated S-32 and S-37 during initial development, is an experimental supersonic jet fighter develope...

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Veeblefetzer is a word usually used facetiously as a label for any obscure or complicated objects, such as automobile parts, computer code and model railroad equipment.

A 19th-century Yiddish language slang word, possibly with limited usage, is generally accepted as the origin. In German, "fetzer" is any contraption, while "veeble" is a likely corruption of "webel," a term for weaving. Textile mills of that period were crammed with loud, complicated and wildly active machinery.

During the 1940s, the inventor Alfred J. Gross, a pioneer of mobile communications, made an association of the word with modern technology. Gross invented the walkie-talkie and developed cordless remote telephone signaling (the precursor to the pager). He was the father of the CB radio, and for his CB handle he used the pseudonym Phineas Thadeus Veeblefetzer.

A few years later, Harvey Kurtzman brought the word into popular usage in his comic book Mad. In the Kurtzman and Will Elder satire of the comic strip Gasoline Alley, titled "Gasoline Valley!", in Mad 15 (September 1954), the character Skizziks opens a shop to repair cracked veeblefetzers. In subsequent issues, Kurtzman used the word for spoofs of big business with North American Veeblefetzer featured in satires of in-house company newsletters, corporate annual reports and more.

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