Annoying words and phrasesMarketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.
Thanks to simbosan for the idea
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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Turn the crank.I always used to get extremely annoyed when a professor or co-worker referred to doing a calculation of some sort as "turning the crank" to get an answer. "Cranking it out" made no real sense to me either- where the fuck is this crank that they all refer to?
I finally have the answer: www.vcalc.net/cu.htm
Somehow this makes my day.
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Wanderer, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 17:57,
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That's rather strangeI'm familiar with cranking _one_ out, but...
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Oh, Turing, yes!I hope to own one of those some day -- though if I were rich I would commision a Difference Engine.
(PS have you read "pattern recognition"?)
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