Turbo Encabulator

Lygris (old account) · 2.4M views · 2007-08-24 · 1:50

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Overview

A short comedy video of the Turbo Encabulator, a piece of technobabble nonsense describing an imaginary machine in deadpan engineering language.

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HN uses it as a joke reply to threads full of dense or impenetrable technical jargon.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2017–2018

Topics

Satire & parody Mechanical & precision engineering

What people said

sheltron · 2018-04 · Joke / meme
Wow these are really great thanks for sharing. Heres a couple of others that I like. Differential Steering: [LINK] Turbo Encabulator: [VIDEO]
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vinchuco · 2018-01 · Joke / meme
This is not a case of the turbo encabulator [1] which you may seemingly enjoy. What he likely meant is that it is well known from the literature. Or there's an easy explanation that supersedes the verbose notation. [1] [VIDEO]
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nn3 · 2017-10 · Joke / meme
The beginning narration sounds very similar (down to choice of words and sentences) to the famous Turbo Encabulator text [VIDEO]
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Video by Lygris (old account), played through YouTube.

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