acmespaceship

I agree with you. Barry stacked the deck by choosing a specialized audience. The general populace would wonder "what's a specific impulse?" and miss the joke. So your variant wins among civilians. Now I'm trying to think of a variant for an airplane designer's daughter using "thrust" "drag" and "lift" but the caffeine hasn't set in yet and I'm already working on the comedy problem of whether, once you've sung "if you like Uke-C'thulu Lady, Uke-C'thulu Lady like-a you," should you continue or is it time to stop right there.