[geeks] Turbo-Encabulator

[Phil Stracchino]

Rick Hamell wrote:
> Sandwich Maker wrote:
>> " From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
>> " 
>> " On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:32:03AM -0500, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>> " > In an article in Time magazine, April 15, 1946.
>> " > http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,886972,00.html
>>
>> there was a stage act with a chimpanzee named cholmondeley -
>> pronounced 'chumley' afaik.
>>
>> " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro-Encabulator
>>
>> just proves the staying power of good tech!
> 
> There's a good sci-fi story seed in there. Some one builds one as a 
> joke... but it actually works.

Of course, you'd have to figure out first what it actually DOES.


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