It's wring, dammit, not ring!

[230RN]

History of the Supermarine Spitfire:

Clip starts at about 6:25, but
get ready to pause at 6:30


https://youtu.be/q6i5eMM11G4?t=380


"..., with engineers trying to ring every square ounce of power out of the Mark V engine..."

(An old joke, but enough years between hearings that I have to laugh like hell every time.)

Terry, 230RN

[Fly320s]

Closed Captions are done by voice to text software.  Go yell at the Google.

Then turn off CC.

[Ben]

Closed Captions are done by voice to text software.  Go yell at the Google.

Then turn off CC.

You see the same on the TV. Though my hearing isn't that bad, I've noticed that between the built-in TV speakers, their midrange for voices, and my problem hearing certain sound tones clearly, I end up defaulting CC to "on" so that when I miss a word or a sentence, I don't have to rewind back to get it. Probably every fifth sentence has either a word like the OP example, or a completely different word, e.g., "It's about time they arrived." becomes "It's about time they a ride."

[French G.]

And the engineers failed. Well they succeeded if you want to use the plane again. But for ringing out all the power you have to hand it to the air racers who don’t know quite how much boost they run because the gauge pegged long ago. Pretty funny that there is a subculture that chases remaining Merlin engines. The air racers and the boat racers both want them and are not on good terms since the hey each regard the other as ruining the dwindling supply.

[230RN]

Oh, like I didn't know the cc erred there.

The real joke was the units.

'"..., with engineers trying to ring every square ounce of power out of the Mark V engine..."



Like cubic kiloWatt-hours.  Or the next farm is ten acres down the road. Or that tornado was five square categories.

 

Well, I guess I'll work on that one on the road before I hit Vegas, and I gotta come up with a one-liner using the word "mensuration."

Terry

REF (Just to make life easier):
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/mensuration

[French G.]

Cubic dollars is a scientifically acceptable unit of measurement when discussing racing engines.

[230RN]

Actually, "cubic dollars" does make some kind of sense in respect to engines.  Calling cost in dollars per cubic inch displacement = "cubic dollars"  makes satisfying sense.

A real annoyance with me is this fad of tying all units to physical standards and then naming the new units after scientists. It seems like an exercise in anality.

"Pascal," for example, is too small a unit to be practical, so we're stuck with "kiloPascals.  I suppose I can get used to that, but wasn't a mllimeter of mercury also a pressure measurement based on natural physics, and called a Torricelli, or "Torr" for short?

And a Joule, which is a Watt-second has two (2, count 'em) scientists involved in it already. And come to think of it, a Watt itself is an Ampiere times a Volta and an Ampiere is a flow of Coulombs of electrons per second.

And who was this guy called "Second" anyway?

Or, for that matter, who was Mr. Gram or Dr. Liter, or Ms. Meter?

'Tis a puzzlement.

Terry, 230RN

[Doggy Daddy]

Oh, like I didn't know the cc erred there.

The real joke was the units.

'"..., with engineers trying to ring every square ounce of power out of the Mark V engine..."

Well, maybe possibly if you had given the thread a title referring to the units rather than the word choice, we might believe your attempt at backtracking.    [yore. you're. ]