Ooh a chance to tell my favorite internet story ever. It started with an episode of The Simpsons. There is an episode of the show where Otto shows up with a swim mobile, hilarity ensues, the end. My wife mentioned how it would be cool if there really were such things. I tell her as a kid in Detroit I had been in one many times to charges of “bullshit” which prompts a search for a picture of a real swim mobile. I’m not sure if I started a thread or posted to a different thread here, but Dopers being dopers someone linked to picture of one in about 12 seconds. Here’s the kicker, said picture is a picture of one of my younger brothers my stepfather and I.
I was looking through some old threads of 1999 to find my first post and I saw someone posting what “14 k of g in a f p d” means and how it would make a neat riddle for bar trivia. I lost the link though.
“f p d” is “flat panel display”. The O.P. in question was confused about another guy’s inept abbreviations. The original was asking about using gold instead of copper in high end electronics. As audiophiles know, high end cables are sometimes coated with gold. So the phrase is a reference to the cables in an HD TV. “14 karats of gold in a flat panel display”
How’s that for a miracle? I solved the damn thing.
I appreciate your honesty, but I feel I must say that your answer seemed contrived and not very believable.
I’m sorry that I forgot to say what it means in my previous post. I was so busy trying to find the thread it was in that I completely forgot to post the answer! Once you know what it is, it’s so obvious that I’m amazed no one figure it out.
14 k of g in a f p d = 14 k…
Hold on a second, there are two men in black suits at my front door, I’d better go see what they want. I’ll be right back.