A quote..

[sinjun]

From "Engines of Democracy" by Charles Fishman, from Fast Company, issue 28, page 174, Copyright October 1999.

"Unlike the computer chip or the MRI scanner, whose underlying technology is impenetrable to the ordinary person, jet engines work so simply, so elegantly, that they can be understood by a precocious fifth-grader. The principles of jet-engine design and operation are these: Suck. Squeeze. Bang. And blow."

Comments

[njjevans.livejournal.com]

I'm a precocious fifth-grader! I should go work at Boeing!

No wonder they lay people off so much. There's a lot of cut-throat, broke fifth-graders out there!

[njjevans.livejournal.com]

.....If I'm gonna fark up my grammar, I might as well say "Thar be", and at least sound cool doing it.....

[damara.livejournal.com]

*grins*

You could always try. Though judging by the rest of the article, I think they discriminate against the precocious fifth-graders.