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[[File:Eight jet engines.png|right|thumb|The magnificent B-52 Superfortress with its, in this day and age, unfeasibly high engine count.]] | {{a|metaphor|[[File:Eight jet engines.png|right|thumb|The magnificent B-52 Superfortress with its, in this day and age, unfeasibly high engine count.]]}} | ||
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”. | 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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The unbeatable card[1] 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”.