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The Heck Is a Splodge?

Greetings esteemed editor. The “Budget Buster” feature in the April issue is an outstanding example of intelligent analysis of the elements of a computer, and a demonstration that price is not the ultimate criterion! Such a paper offers proof of the high quality of the journal.

However, perhaps because I live in a foreign country, Québec (presently part of Canada), which uses the metric system, I am confused by the exact measurement described by the term “splodge.”

Is this a metric measurement, officially identified by a quantity of thermal paste kept in a test tube at exactly 25 C at the National Science Council, and named, perhaps, after the eminent Senator Henry Cabot Splodge? I suppose a centisplodge and a millisplodge are used for different models of PCs.

Given that the US still uses the ancient English units, such as miles, yards, and football fields, I wonder nevertheless if the splodge is one of those