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Revolutionary Non Sequitar Turbo Encabulator Transmission
http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/transmission.html ^

Posted on 10/30/2014 4:45:34 PM PDT by navysealdad

Several years ago, Rockwell International decided to get into the heavy duty automatic transmission business. They were getting ready to tape their first introductory video. As a warm up, the professional narrator began what has become a legend within the training industry. This man should have won an academy award for his stellar performance.

(Excerpt) Read more at angelfire.com ...


TOPICS: Humor
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Kind of old but still humorous.
1 posted on 10/30/2014 4:45:34 PM PDT by navysealdad
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To: navysealdad

Yep. I saw this when the interwebs were very young. Thanks for the replay.


2 posted on 10/30/2014 4:52:41 PM PDT by Wingy
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To: navysealdad
For those not wishing to visit Angelfire, here's the YouTube link carried on that page:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDgQg6bq7o

3 posted on 10/30/2014 4:56:23 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: navysealdad

Still gets a smile from me.


4 posted on 10/30/2014 4:58:38 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: navysealdad

I hadn’t hear the word “turboencabulator” for about forty years, and only ever heard it from my Dad, but now I’ve seen it on two different websites in the past month.

I think most people of my generation have never heard of it, seeing how it was made obsolete by the flux capacitor.


5 posted on 10/30/2014 5:08:02 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: navysealdad

mark


6 posted on 10/30/2014 5:15:06 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: navysealdad

The first clue that this is pure bull excrement is the lab coat. Engineers don’t wear white lab coats - they might get caught in the machinery. Besides, white lab coats are for Doctors and Snake Oil Salesmen.


7 posted on 10/30/2014 5:17:05 PM PDT by captain_dave
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To: dayglored

Thanks for the “angelfire prophylactic!”

KYPD


8 posted on 10/30/2014 5:28:37 PM PDT by petro45acp (Repeal! Recall! Defund! Scrap regulatory agencies!...If it is not the government's job...)
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To: navysealdad

Always remember, kids—”If you can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with bullsh!t!”


9 posted on 10/30/2014 6:13:53 PM PDT by W. (Joe Biden is Tourette's Guy from Youtube? Well, that explains it!)
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To: dayglored

thnx


10 posted on 10/30/2014 6:35:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: navysealdad

Not so humorous when you see what happened to the engineers in the Soviet Union and Communist China after they got their hands on the video.


11 posted on 10/30/2014 7:13:52 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: captain_dave
Exactly. They should have used a real engineer...

12 posted on 10/30/2014 7:19:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: navysealdad

Techno Babble Compaq-style 1988
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd5k7J7bIOk&spfreload=10


13 posted on 10/30/2014 7:41:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: navysealdad

Prevents ‘side-fumbling’.


14 posted on 10/30/2014 11:36:06 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens ~ J.R.R. Tolkien)
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