{"id":418,"date":"2007-01-21T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/?p=418"},"modified":"2025-09-20T16:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:12:49","slug":"entry-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Technobabble Stream of Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thanks to <del>Thomas<\/del> (<em>link defunct<\/em>) for the cool link that got me started on this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jamie\u2019s technobabble over the big diagram (in the defunct video) reminded me of an old electrical engineering in-joke: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turboencabulator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the turbo encabulator<\/a>. I have known for a long time about a video incarnation of this joke apparently made by some folks at Rockwell: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Rockwell Automation Retro Encabulator<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, what I didn\u2019t realize is that Chrysler took a shot at this old joke even earlier: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Chrysler Turbo Encabulator<\/a>. Keep listening. There are some screw-the-customer jokes at the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love how this old joke just keeps coming back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bonus for the Mythbusters fans<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RHcDP_Yew-g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Do pretty girls fart?<\/a><br>I hope they pay the poor girl well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Thomas (link defunct) for the cool link that got me started on this one. Jamie\u2019s technobabble over the big diagram (in the defunct video) reminded me of an old electrical engineering in-joke: the turbo encabulator. I have known for a long time about a video incarnation of this joke apparently made by some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,6,4],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-funny","tag-linkfood","tag-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}