Monday, April 19, 2010

The floggletoggle's connected to the thingumajig . . .


This marvelous piece of engineering gobbledygook was ad-libbed by an engineer at Rockwell some years ago. It's still one of the best I've ever heard.





Magnificent obfuscation!

(For more on the 'turboencabulator', see here. It appears to have been an in-joke among engineers since the 1940's.)



Peter
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4 comments:

  1. NoonsApril 20, 2010 at 7:30 AM

    LOL! Every time I hear this, I'm reminded of the "newspeak" that passes for technical talk in modern IT...

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  2. KeadsApril 20, 2010 at 8:32 AM

    Thanks! Just what the electrical and instrumentation department needed to see this morning! There are several of those on you tube. Coffee on keyboard, but other than that no injuries!

    Please do not show to management, they would want to buy 5!

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  3. Old NFOApril 20, 2010 at 1:51 PM

    Ah... technobabble... :-) I "think" we have a project doing that...LOL

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  4. AnonymousApril 21, 2010 at 3:37 PM

    If enough of these are manufactured the negative effects it would have on global warming could save the planet! Who do I contact in Washington?

    Antibubba

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