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Post by TKennedy on Apr 12, 2010 19:04:43 GMT -5
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Post by dradtke on Apr 12, 2010 19:23:46 GMT -5
The scary thing is, I think I understood it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2010 19:24:16 GMT -5
You don't say! Seems that this is only feasible when interfaced with a molecular mortifier.  |
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Post by Doug on Apr 12, 2010 20:33:05 GMT -5
Wow
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Post by theevan on Apr 12, 2010 21:18:26 GMT -5
HAHAHAHA! I like it. Sounds like Letson.
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Post by omaha on Apr 12, 2010 22:18:17 GMT -5
That's pretty much what my first year in engineering school was like.
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Post by Jawbone on Apr 12, 2010 22:35:38 GMT -5
Looked like Katie Couric interviewing Sahara Palin.
Without Katie.
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Post by Don Clark on Apr 12, 2010 22:45:17 GMT -5
HAHAHAHA! I like it. Sounds like Letson. Is this guy related to our Miss Prude? |
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Post by Supertramp78 on Apr 12, 2010 23:40:14 GMT -5
"This was the idea: 41 monestically spaced grouting brushes were arranged to fade into the rotor slipstream, a mixture of high s-value phoenal hydro benzamine and 5% remonative tetra iota hexamine. Now, as you may remember from your high school days, both of these liquids have specific peristocities given by the formula p=2.5c*6.7/n, where n, of course, is the diethical evolute of retrograde temperature phase disposition, and c in that formula being chalmondalayse anula grid coefficient."
Well, duh.
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Post by Supertramp78 on Apr 12, 2010 23:45:40 GMT -5
By the way, the turbo encabulator is a great gag that has been passed down for decades.
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Post by patrick on Apr 13, 2010 7:38:44 GMT -5
Don't believe a word of it.
I have one of these transmissions in my car.
Damn thing failed at 72K miles!
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 13, 2010 8:52:13 GMT -5
By the way, the turbo encabulator is a great gag that has been passed down for decades. I figured it had been around for a while. Somehow it escaped my radar. Who did it originally? It's right up there with the Komodo Dragon. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2010 8:59:28 GMT -5
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Post by Supertramp78 on Apr 13, 2010 9:44:31 GMT -5
This from wiki...
An early reference to the turbo-encabulator appeared in an article by New York lawyer Bernard Salwen in Time on April 15, 1946. Part of Salwen's job was to review technical manuscripts. He was amused by the jargon and wrote the classic description of a non-existent turboencabulator.
In 1955 the turboencabulator was supposedly described by a "J.H. Quick" in "The Institution of Electrical Engineers, Students Quarterly Journal" 25 (London), p184 in 1955.
In 1962 a turboencabulator data sheet was created by engineers at General Electric's Instrument Department, in West Lynn, Massachusetts. It quoted from the previous sources and was inserted into the General Electric Handbook. The turboencabulator data sheet had the same format as the other pages in the G.E. Handbook. The engineers added "Shure Stat" in "Technical Features", which was peculiar only to the Instrument Department, and included the first known graphic representation of a "manufactured" turboencabulator using parts made at the Instrument Department.
Circa 1988 the former Chrysler Corporation "manufactured" the Turboencabulator in a video spoof.
Circa 1997 Rockwell Automation "manufactured" the renamed Retro-Encabulator in another video spoof.
The technical descriptions of all these turboencabulators remain remarkably similar over the years.
This is the Original TIME story....
"Work has been proceeding in order to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of a machine that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. Such a machine is the 'Turbo-Encabulator'.
"The original machine had a base-plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan. ... The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible trem'e pipe to the differential girdlespring on the 'up' end of the grammeters.
"Forty-one manestically spaced grouting brushes were arranged to feed into the rotor slipstream a mixture of high S-value phenylhydrobenzamine and 5% reminative tetryliodohexamine. Both of these liquids have specific pericosities given by P = 2.5C.n^6-7 where n is the diathetical evolute of retrograde temperature phase disposition and C is Cholmondeley's annular grillage coefficient. Initially, n was measured with the aid of a metapolar refractive pilfrometer ... but up to the present date nothing has been found to equal the transcendental hopper dadoscope. ... Undoubtedly, the turbo-encabulator has now reached a very high level of technical development. It has been successfully used for operating nofer trunnions. In addition, whenever a barescent skor motion is required, it may be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocating dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal depleneration."
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Post by dradtke on Apr 13, 2010 11:10:24 GMT -5
You can't fool me. Ain't no such thing as a dingle arm.
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 13, 2010 11:25:52 GMT -5
You can't fool me. Ain't no such thing as a dingle arm. Sure is. It's what you use to pick dingleberrys. |
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Post by TDR on Apr 13, 2010 14:34:15 GMT -5
Dint they mean turbo incubator?  |
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Post by knobtwister on Apr 13, 2010 20:49:14 GMT -5
Looks like a Bose marketing video. BTW I think there are several spoof Rockwell videos. I seem to remember one on motor drivers. Don |
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