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{{a|metaphor|[[File:Eight jet engines.jpeg|center|450px|thumb|The magnificent B-52 Superfortress. So many engines, they had level the playing field for sensitive [[snowflake]] modern types by removing the “number of engines” category altogether.]]}}“The nuts”, when engaged in a game of [[Top Trumps]] | {{a|metaphor|[[File:Eight jet engines.jpeg|center|450px|thumb|The magnificent B-52 Superfortress. So many engines, they had level the playing field for sensitive [[snowflake]] modern types by removing the “number of engines” category altogether.]]}}“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: 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 | 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 unimpeachable. | ||
[[File:Eight jet engines.png|200px|thumb|left|With engine count, in original 1970s edition.]] | [[File:Eight jet engines.png|200px|thumb|left|With engine count, in original 1970s edition.]] | ||
So | So peachable, in fact, that in the modern edition they ''removed'' the “engine count” criteria altogether. Some people just don’t like to be beat, I guess. | ||
“[[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]]. | “[[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]]. | ||
But careful: it is easy to confuse a real [[eight jet engines]] situation with the much less edifying “[[two Wankel engines]]” scenario — so named for the Mazda RX-3’s curious double rotary configuration, as featured in [[Top Trumps]] Supercars edition. | But careful: it is easy to confuse a real [[eight jet engines]] situation with the much less edifying “[[two Wankel engines]]” scenario — so named for the Mazda RX-3’s curious double rotary configuration, as featured in [[Top Trumps]] ''Supercars'' edition. | ||
In a game designed to rank items by reference to their common attributes, The rotary Mazda is oddly ''sui generis'', and when it crops up in a hand, just confusing, and you wonder what the manufacturers had in mind by including it. | In a game designed to rank items by reference to their common attributes, The rotary Mazda is oddly ''sui generis'', and when it crops up in a hand, just confusing, and you wonder what the manufacturers had in mind by including it. | ||