# Kuhneutson Valves and Flux Capacitors

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 4, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kuhneutson-valves-and-flux-capacitors/714211 "2015-03-04T17:29:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kuhneutson-valves-and-flux-capacitors/714211/61 "2020-10-05T02:09:21Z")

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When I was in Boy Scouts, it was always specifically a green left-handed smoke-shifter. See, there were multiple brands of them, and the red ones were lousy quality.

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**Author:** ![superwombat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superwombat/32/16616_2.png) [@superwombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superwombat)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kuhneutson-valves-and-flux-capacitors/714211/62 "2020-10-05T02:33:17Z")

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Latex paint thinner

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**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kuhneutson-valves-and-flux-capacitors/714211/63 "2020-10-05T04:45:21Z")

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My mother taught me, practically from the cradle, when ANYTHING goes wrong on a car, it’s always the Canuten Valve. (Spelling determined by which brand you use)

She’d mix up a serious talk with her favorite “double talk” words: retifortis and ranaframs.

You always have to be careful with those, they break so easily!

~VOW

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kuhneutson-valves-and-flux-capacitors/714211/64 "2020-10-06T03:32:08Z")

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Quite a few years back, doper Triskadekimus regaled folks at a get-together about pranking a newly-minted lieutenant by insisting they couldn’t do something with a part because they were out of azimuth. I cannot possibly do the tale justice.

A friend of ours, who is really into cars, suggests that if you think you’re being bullshitted by a car salesman (I know, that’s a duplicative term), you start talking about muffler bearings and see if he jumps in to sound knowledgeable about. Platinum-plated muffler bearings are supposed to be the absolute best 😃.

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**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kuhneutson-valves-and-flux-capacitors/714211/65 "2020-10-06T12:13:50Z")

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[![](https://i.redd.it/40yjgyiu6u011.jpg) ](https://i.redd.it/40yjgyiu6u011.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kuhneutson-valves-and-flux-capacitors/714211/66 "2020-10-06T18:54:46Z")

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> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#):
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> I’ve heard the IT guys tell people they have a PEBCAK problem with their computer…

Or PICNIC. I’ve actually entered that in call logs more than once.

Problem in chair, not in computer.

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