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{{a|metaphor|[[File:Eight jet engines.png|center|450px|thumb|The magnificent B-52 Superfortress with its, in this day and age, unfeasibly high engine count.]]}}
{{a|metaphor|[[File:Eight jet engines.png|center|450px|thumb|The magnificent B-52 Superfortress with its, in this day and age, unfeasibly high engine count.]]}}“The nuts”, when engaged in a game of [[Top Trumps]] military planes edition.  
The unbeatable card<ref>Known in poker as “the nuts”, when you know based on the cards on the table that your hand can’t be beaten, or like crying "who’s queen?" during a game of Frisbee (when you happen to be [[R|Queen]]).</ref> in [[Top Trumps]]. There's no way anyone can beat the Boeing [[B-52]] Stratocruiser, because there is not an aircraft designer in history who would be foolish enough to try to fit ''nine'' engines on a plane - these days, four is considered profligate - and unlike with the [[Top Trumps]] [[supercars]] edition there is no magnificent flying machine equipped with [[two Wankel engines]] to “queer the pitch”.


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There's no way anyone can beat the engine count on a Boeing [[B-52]] Stratocruiser, as there is not an aircraft designer in history foolish enough to try to fit ''nine'' engines on the same plane — these days, four is considered profligate — and even in the giddy heights of the Cold War, Boeing only tried it once. Thus the B-52 stands alone, quite impeachable.
 
“Eight jet engines” is its own kind of [[knee-slide]], and a legal eagles of a certain vintage (mine) may happily squawk it, as she dispatches that devastating rejoinder, [[incluso]], [[rider]], or snippy blog post.
 
But careful: it is easy to confuse a real [[eight jet engines]] situation with a much less edifying [[two Wankel engines]] moment — so named for the Mazda RX-3’s curious double rotary configuration, as featured in [[Top Trumps]] [[supercars]] edition. The Mazda is basically ''sui generis'', and in the context of the game, just confusing, and you wonder what the manufacturers had in mind by including it.
 
The player opting for the “[[Wankel gambit]]” quickly discovers what he thought would be a triumphal master stroke was nothing of the kind: his fellow players are momentarily baffled, then irritated, and quickly form a consensus that the 370 bhp V12 Lamborghini wins, and move on. The sensible “Wankeler” accepts his peers’ judgment surrenders his card and carries on; the foolhardy one stamps his feet, insists hotly he has been mistreated, and storms off to stew in righteous dudgeon about the cruelty of the world. 
 
But enough about me.
 
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*[[Top Trumps]]
*[[Top Trumps]]
*[[Two Wankel engines]]
*[[Two Wankel engines]]
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