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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.]]}}“The nuts”, when engaged in a game of [[Top Trumps]] military planes edition.
-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.
+There’s no way anyone can beat the engine count on a Boeing [[B-52]] Stratocruiser: 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 [[legal eagle]]s of a certain vintage (mine) may happily squawk it, as they dispatch that exquisitely-timed [[mark-up]], wry rejoinder, devastating [[provuso]], or [[oneNDA|potentially game-changing industry initiative]].