It took me 3 days and a lot of careful listening but I have learned a new word. ""Unobtanium""-------- and I'm sure I won't be using it much !! >>>>.
That's not a new word, has been around for ages.. a lot of the parts we need are made out of it. Right now I am looking for a rocker arm stand for a straight 8 buick 248/263 the material is aluminum, but it seems to be made of Unobtainium.
Hey, Yeah, I boleave it started over on the "restoration" side of the aisle, where I would hear "well they built six of these, and three are accounted for, and you just dropped the only known n.o.s. one of those"! A bad day indeed! Swankey Devils C.C. "Meanwhile, back aboard The Tainted Pork"
So what part made out of unobtanium are you looking for? There are plenty of things I'd like to find made of it.
I will make a effort to use that word all week . I need to take a Unobtainium . I lost my Unobtainium . Can you pass the wrench its by the Unobtainium . By the way what does it mean ?
It depends if you are in the H.A.M.B. World or the collector car world. In the H.A.M.B. World it would mean a part that you can't find so you have to build 1 yourself. But in the collector car world it means a part that if you are lucky enough to own you can sell it to a car collector and you can charge an ass-load of dough for it >>>>.
I'm not sure, but it might be a Baskerville word. If not, it should be. OK, maybe not. (From reference.com) Engineers have long (since at least the 1950s) used the term unobtainium when referring to unusual or costly materials, or when theoretically considering a material perfect for their needs in all respects save that it doesn't exist. By the 1990s, the term was widely used, including formal engineering papers such as Towards unobtainium [new composite materials for space applications.
There's a lot of variations on the word also. One for machineist's is Unmachineium. Meaning it's too hard, it can't be turned or it's just that bad of a shape. Let's hear the rest, Zilla!
There is a forum that I am a member of that has its own sub forum for "Unobtanium" We would get kickass planes...fly the shit out of them..and want another..cannot get em http://theprofilebrotherhood.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=85
This is gonna be war! I stayed home from Starbird and depended on my good pal Engine Pro 5X to get some for me. Now he says, "unobtanium." I'm calling bullshit. He was probably snapping photos like an Obama paparazzi Camelot starry eyed maniac......And for those of you who don't know he also sells Shelby Cobra Jet stuff. Has alot of unobtanium.
Although mentioned in Scientific papers as early as 1957, it is generally credited to Bobby Unser as being the first to use it in motorsports. At Indy when some cars had parts that were a little too trick and expensive for the average yahoo Booby said they were made of unobtanium. Now Oakley has actually patented it for a plastic /rubber in sunglasses!
They used the word in the 50's movie version of Jules Vernes "From the Earth to the Moon", it was just on TCM a week or so ago.
A secondary problem to parts made of chrome plated unobtainium is that they are all on intergalactic backorder as well....
How about "handsome". My wife said her mouth was getting soar, I replied "then use your handsome". HA! Thats funny right there.
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