Dave Rondot
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1:50 · 3.5M views · Apr 9, 2010
The earliest filmed version of the Turbo Encabulator technical-jargon parody, shot in the late 1970s with narrator Bud Haggert. It deadpans a stream of meaningless engineering language.
Used as the canonical reference for the jargon-parody trope, and as a joke whenever technobabble appears.
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"Still it's amusing how Whitney's style seems to personally offend people" So it was for the lols after all... Notably, a Lisp interpreter written in Lisp is a common assignment for second year CS students. In a production setting, there is little reason to misappropriate resources for such toys. Bud Haggert still teaches smart people something very important about communication with interdisciplinary crowds: this video Doug Zongker's presentation similarly instructs people how to make better presentations to peers by demonstrating what not to do: [LINK] Best of luck =3
There's a proud tradition of this kind of parody: the Turboencabluator is one of the most famous in engineering, a joke that goes back to 1944. [LINK] Bud Haggart's industrial training videos for the Turboencabulator from the 70s/80s are things of beauty. See this video
I think you're gonna like this one [1]. The B-25 Mitchell instructional that was linked here some few weeks ago is also amazing [2]. [1]: this video [2]: [LINK]
I don't know why people are always posting the Rockwell version when the older Turbo Emcabulator video is far superior. this video
That is the long running “Turbo Encabulator” trope, the original is here this video but there are some wonderful rerenditions and tributes if you search for those keywords on YouTube.