Re: Silly part name

["W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>]

> >> I think we should have a "Oddly Named Part of the Month" to keep the up the
> >> humor end of this list.

I kind of like trunnions, myself.  I have the very strong impression that 
the engineers got together and said, "Well look.  Here's a dozen parts on 
the car that got no name.  Oh, hell, call them all trunnions, nobody will 
know any better."

   Ray Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8910