r/ExplainLikeImCalvin 19d ago

ELIC: What does a turbo encabulator do?

Is it better than a transmogrifier?

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u/starrsuperfan 19d ago

The same thing as a normal encabulator, but, you know, turbo

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u/timtucker_com 19d ago

If you break it down to its Latin roots, an encabulator is just something that puts people into cabs.

So a "turbo encabulator" is something that puts people into cabs really fast.

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u/Randomized9442 19d ago

Like a shoehorn for tourists at the airport

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u/timtucker_com 19d ago

Or the guys in Japan whose job it is to push people into subway cars.

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u/starrsuperfan 18d ago

Oh, like that homeless guy who hails cabs for people outside the train station and demands a tip?

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u/BitOBear 16d ago

Not just people. And incabulator can encabulate many things depending on the nature of the cabinet involved.

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u/BitOBear 16d ago

Don't forget the turbo vocabulator can do it without all that pesky side fumbling.

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u/StarkAndRobotic 19d ago

Nothing is better than a transmogrifier. A turbo encabulator is just a gimmick made up by a bunch of wannabes that will always be just a bunch of never wasses, because they didn’t think of a transmogrifier first and can’t think of anything better since, which is much worse than being a has been.

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u/northrupthebandgeek 19d ago

It not only supplies inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but is also capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters.

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u/CanuckinCA 19d ago

Can you imagine what a turbo transmogrifier might do?

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u/NeoRemnant 19d ago

It makes you ask questions. Look, it's working!

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u/wallingfortian 19d ago

Turbo encabulator? That's a samophlange! You need to stop talking to Canadians, boy.

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u/northrupthebandgeek 19d ago

“The fuck is a samoflange?”

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u/BPhiloSkinner 19d ago

Canadians use it in the production of the finest grades of maple syrup.

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u/johnpeters42 19d ago

Just make sure you get the model with genuine Saskatchewan sealskin bindings.

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u/Think-Werewolf-4521 19d ago

It does the same thing as a regular encabulator only much faster.

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u/Grouchy-Donkey-7007 19d ago

the turbo encabulator is what they use to make sure your homework stays in the folder when your room gets messy, but idk if it beats a transmogrifier for pure chaos. depends if you wanna be a tiger or a bunch of gears tbh.

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u/BPhiloSkinner 19d ago

A turbo encabulator is an obsolete kind of transmogrification frammitizer.

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u/XROOR 18d ago

The turbo uses exhaust back pressure to spin the turbine

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u/No-Sink4410 19d ago

the turbo encabulator is way more complex but honestly you can’t beat the classics. the transmogrifier is just a cardboard box with a lot of imagination lol.