The Decode-the-jargon Game

[Noddingdog]

Basically someone comes up with an overcomplicated sentence describing an everyday product and the next person decodes it and posts one of their own.

Here's the first one(not too complicated ):

Farming apparatus storage construction utilising several support beams with added strength

 

 

[Didymus]

pole barn ?

 

[Noddingdog]

Not pole, but it is a barn, yes!
Your turn

 

[Didymus]

i have to get supper now but i will think of one and post it later

 

[Didymus]

ok here it is it is not very good my family gussed it right away.
a metal cylender used for transporting and storing edible substances.

 

[LightHearted]

thermos

a portal from a domicile to the outside

 

[Christmasguy]

A door?

 

[Noddingdog]

Yes, a door ( I think)

An implement designed for the collection of nutritious elements designed for consumption

 

[waterwizard]

A spoon (or a fork)

A clear, aqueous substance designed for the purpose of consumption in order to sustain life.

 

[Noddingdog]

Hmmm... water?

A vast quantity of clear, aqueous substance, yet not designed for consumption

 

[Tau]

An ocean.

An instrument using a scale which is linearly dependent on the square of the average speed of the atoms in the substance on which the measurement was done.

 

[Noddingdog]

Speedo, or other speed-measuring device.

An implement utilised to obtain certain quantities of information from specific sources using, to name one technique, the flow of vast quantities of electrons.

 

[Tau]

3rd April 2003 at 08:37 AM Noddingdog said this in Post #12

Speedo, or other speed-measuring device.

I'm afraid that's wrong. Try again.

 

[Noddingdog]

Hmmm.......................

/me thinks hard
/me thinks harder
/me cannot think any harder without a hint!

If it's not a speedo, what else could it be?

 

[Tau]

4th April 2003 at 12:32 PM Noddingdog said this in Post #14

Hmmm.......................

* Noddingdog thinks hard
* Noddingdog thinks harder
* Noddingdog cannot think any harder without a hint!

If it's not a speedo, what else could it be?

Okay, here's a hint: The measurement is done on something that lies still. What counts is not the speed of the thing on the whole, but the speed of the atoms. Remember, the atoms are vibrating.

 

[Noddingdog]

Scales.

 

[Noddingdog]

Thermometer! A scientist like me should know that!

 

[Tau]

4th April 2003 at 09:13 PM Noddingdog said this in Post #17

Thermometer! A scientist like me should know that!

Yep, that's right!

The next one, from Noddingdog's post above, is:

An implement utilised to obtain certain quantities of information from specific sources using, to name one technique, the flow of vast quantities of electrons.

 

[Noddingdog]

Phew!

Anyone have any ideas?