"metric buttload"

[Tore S Bekkedal]

On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 13:30 -0500, Christopher McNabb wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:36:38 -0800 (PST), Al Kossow <aek at spies.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I think Eric Smith was using this phrase even earlier
> > http://www.google.com/groups?selm=1991Aug10.162415.19314%40wpi.WPI.EDU&output=gplain
> > 
> > Aug '91
> > 
> > I know that's where I picked it up from.
> > 
> 
> I first heard this phrase while attending the US Navy's Nuclear
> Propulsion School in the summer of '81.
> 
> I think the usage I heard was something like "The fission produces
> 2.73 neutrons on average, and a metric buttload of energy"
> 
That's impressive, I thought I just made that up in a fit of humour.

But it probably just came from somewhere deep inside my subconsiousness,
about right next to my knowledge of Visual Basic.



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Tore S Bekkedal <toresbe at ifi.uio.no>