---- David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
>
> I contain multitudes and often believe six impossible things before
> breakfast.  Sometimes I have breakfast at ten at night, which
> helps.  The Galton whistle is real and the turbo-encabulator is the
> brainchild of a highly-regarded professional training-film actor who
> decided to write his own script, just once.  You can find him on
> YouTube, along with several imitators.

Actually, it looks like the "turboecabulator" long predates the training film itself, having been aound engineering circles for decades:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator

still funny.

I have a Galton Whistle, mine used not for calling dogs.  It is an item I purchased from a university cleaning out drawers in science labs.  It is actually a precision instrument once used in tests to assess hearing acuity.  I think I paid a couple of dollars for it, and it probably once cost hundreds.

technobabble can use real or unreal references and still be funny.

mcneely