[geeks] Turbo-Encabulator

Rick Hamell hamellr at gmail.com
Mon Jan 12 11:12:18 CST 2009


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.

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