The term " Jefferies tube " was originally an inside joke among the original Star Trek production staff, a reference to Original Series art director Matt Jefferies, the man who designed the original starship Enterprise.

The argument stems from an inside joke between Foley and McDonald, who debated this issue in real life.

This movie also has an inside joke about movies: when Cohan " retires " in the 1930s and several teenagers ( who know nothing about his career ) ask him if he had ever been in the movies, he remarks that he had been an actor in the " legitimate theater.

As an inside joke, Short started greasing it straight up.

That was true during the time this story was first published but it was mainly used as an inside joke.

The dwarf rabbit reference was an inside joke among WebTV's hard-working engineers — Phil Goldman's pet house rabbit Bowser ( inspiration for the General Magic logo ) was often found roaming the WebTV building late into the night while the engineers were working — although WebTV actually received inquiries from real research groups conducting similar studies and seeking to exchange data.

This number may represent an inside joke (" Tooth Hurty ").

None of these machines played any significant role in the battle other than being seen in the background and being destroyed ( though some can be seen during the aftermath of the battle ) as they were likely included as an inside joke to long-time fans.

An in-joke, also known as an inside joke or in joke, is a joke whose humour is clear only to people who are in a particular social group, occupation, or other community of common understanding.

At the very end of the story, Kin comes to suspect that the builders of the flat world in fact constructed the universe as a whole, with the evidence of previous races being hoaxes and the flat world being an inside joke, analogous to the false strata Kin and the Company themselves manufacture, and the occasional hoaxes put in these strata by rebellious employees.

In this theory, the name Sharaku is taken from sharakusai, " nonsense ," and is an inside joke by the artists, who knew that there was no actual Sharaku.

As if an inside joke, one of the multiple endings in Star Fox Command, Fox and Falco join a G-Zero space racing team ; a reference to the F-Zero series.

In an inside joke, NCIS agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs is asked, " What did Ducky look like when he was younger?

Sosumi exists as an inside joke on Apple Inc .' s website as the name of a CSS typographical style used for legal notices such as the copyright notice:

A " Barre Sinister " is a diagonal line, running from top right to bottom left on medieval family crests, indicating the person is a bastard by birth ; this was a clever inside joke typical of animation writing at the time.

The band's name came from an inside joke about a Weather Report album called Mr. Gone where they referred to each other as " Mister This " or " Mister That ", and eventually selected " Mr. Mister.

This oddity would become an inside joke between personalities on both networks, who commonly referred to jumping between the two networks as " crossing the parking lot.

The band's name began as an inside joke, and the band was generally known for their humour, displayed throughout their albums and on stage.

* A113 ( sometimes A-113 or A1-13 ) is an inside joke present as an Easter egg in animated films created by CalArts alumni, refers to a classroom number

As an inside joke among the animators, two of the missiles are drawn to look like cans of Budweiser and Tako Hai ( a drink which literally translates as " Octopus Highball ").

*" Wild Thing " ( In one broadcast of Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me !, Barry revealed this song as a band inside joke, since Roy Blount always mistimes his single vocal line: " You move me.

The name of the doctor is an inside joke: Smith and Dale, both being Jewish, named the physician Kronkheit, which is Yiddish and German for " sickness ".

Measurements for rectangular pattern piece A are obtained by measuring inside circumference and depth of butter mold bowl.

Pattern for inner lid piece E fits inside Aj.

Place clay piece A inside ; ;

Bill James wrote that Zimmer often put a piece of beefsteak inside his baseball glove to protect his catching hand from Young's fastball.

Instead of enabling the guest operating system to dialog with hardware, virtual device drivers take the opposite role and emulate a piece of hardware, so that the guest operating system and its drivers running inside a virtual machine can have the illusion of accessing real hardware.

In FidoNet terminology, the term " kludge " refers to a piece of control data embedded inside a message.

" The meme as a unit provides a convenient means of discussing " a piece of thought copied from person to person ", regardless of whether that thought contains others inside it, or forms part of a larger meme.

The advantages to DCC are that track voltage is constant ( usually in the range of 20 volts AC ) and the command throttle sends a signal to small circuit cards, or decoders, hidden inside the piece of equipment which control several functions of an individual locomotive, including speed, direction of travel, lights, smoke and various sound effects.

The eerie musical piece during the tense scene in the film where Ben finds the rifle in the closet inside the farmhouse as the radio reports of mayhem play in the background can be heard in longer and more complete form during the opening credits and the beginning of The Devil's Messenger ( 1961 ) starring Lon Chaney Jr. Another piece, accompanying Barbra's flight from the cemetery zombie, was taken from the score for The Hideous Sun Demon ( 1959 ).

Diaphragm couplings transmit torque from the outside diameter of a flexible plate to the inside diameter, across the spool or spacer piece, and then from inside to outside diameter.

A piece of frail tenderness manages to cloak itself inside of her, even after having been demonized by Crosby, describing " a pathetic hint of frailty in a wonderful glowing man.

His fiance later found a piece of paper inside his jacket where he had written down his final moves against Turati.

The blockage may be caused by something inside the bronchus, such as a plug of mucus, a tumour, or an inhaled foreign object such as a coin, piece of food, or a toy.

Since zirconium oxide in its solid state does not conduct electricity a piece of zirconium metal is placed inside the gob of zirconium oxide.

Ring doughnuts are formed by joining the ends of a long, skinny piece of dough into a ring or by using a doughnut cutter, which simultaneously cuts the outside and inside shape, leaving a doughnut-shaped piece of dough and a doughnut hole from dough removed from the center.

This piece is then taped to the inside of the light tight box behind a hole cut through the box.

The British detective writer R. Austin Freeman's first Thorndyke novel The Red Thumb-Mark was published in 1907 and features a bloody fingerprint left on a piece of paper together with a parcel of diamonds inside a safe-box.

The note inside appeared to also be computer-generated, and was pasted on a blank piece of paper ; it read, " All three schools will be blown out on Thursday, Sept. 20th at 11: 30 a. m., with two other schools in near by towns.

Pearl farmers can culture a pearl by placing a nucleus, usually a piece of polished mussel shell, inside the oyster.

Shortly before the CIDC's plans were released, a development company, Thor Equities, purchased all of Bullard's western property, sold it to Taconic Investment Partners, and used much of the proceeds to purchase or offer to purchase every piece of property inside the traditional amusement area.

A " platen " is used inside the bag for the piece being glued to lay on.