The Amazing Art of Double Talk: The Turboencabulator Joke & Beyond

[anorlunda]

The turboencabulator joke has been making engineers giggle since 1944. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator I think every year in my career, it resurfaced in one form or another. This video is a modern rendition. The tip-off was the term "crapalloy marvelvanes" which carries over from the 1944 version.

I am most impressed by the ability of the man to deliver two minutes of pure nonsense (i.e. double talk) without stumbling and without laughing.

Do you have other video or audio examples of skillful double talk to contribute? (Let's set an arbitrary limit of 10 seconds minimum to qualify.)

 

[Charles Link]

How about this one by Bob and Ray : and also
$\\$ The ability of the comedians to keep a straight face is remarkable. I would be laughing almost hysterically. :-) $\\$ And I know this really isn't "Double-Talk", but it's a similar type of comedy.

 

[Bandersnatch]

Hehe, my favourite mainstay was included - the reciprocation dingle arm. All the videos on encabulators I've seen appear to subtly or not so subtly allude to previous ones, by referring to similar 'components' and 'processes', giving an illusion of this being an actual ongoing development.

I am most impressed by the ability of the man to deliver two minutes of pure nonsense (i.e. double talk) without stumbling and without laughing.

If you look at how the video cuts every few seconds, it doesn't actually require the man to be such a great actor. It's much more likely that the audio was recorded separately, and the video is spliced from a number of short takes.

 

[fresh_42]

I have the feeling that I could post the entire Monty Python records here.

 

[anorlunda]

If you look at how the video cuts every few seconds, it doesn't actually require the man to be such a great actor. It's much more likely that the audio was recorded separately, and the video is spliced from a number of short takes.

Aw, shucks. That pops my bubble.

How about this one by Bob and Ray :

Ah yes, Bob and Ray were masters. Jackie Gleason could do it too.

 

[DrGreg]

The British exponent of double talk was Stanley Unwin who made a career of it.



Lots more examples if you search YouTube.