Actual Conversation

R_: Today I learned that you can only make two cups of tea with one teabag.

Me: Yeah, the second cup is never as good as the first and the third is undrinkable, but you can make an entire pot of tea with one teabag.

Randolfo: It has to do with the order that stuff comes off of the tea.

R_: I bet if you mixed all three cups together you would have something that was drinkable.

Randolfo: Or continuously moved the teabag from one cup to another.

R_: That's what I need... A teabagging robot!

Randolfo: OOooh!

At which point they both burst into hearty laughter. I still can't decide if he was leading up to a teabagging joke or if it just happened. In either case I won the point since making a pot of tea is infinitely more practical than building a single-use robot, no matter how funny its name is.

Bet you can't figure out what they're talking about

Wilhelm: My position is that originally it tapered away for a long time but now it kind of just stops dead.  It's like one over X.

Randolfo: Eh, it's more like sine over X, cuz it falls away and then another peak hits you.

W: Sine of X plus a constant cuz it never falls to zero.

R: Eh, I still think it's more like sine of X.  Maybe with some kind of adjustment factor...

What are they talking about?  Bet you can't guess.  They're discussing the wine.  The wine we had with dinner.  Normal people use vague terms like "hint of freshly cut grass with peach overtones" but my engineers use functions of X.  What would I do without them?  By the way, the names I'm using for them were chosen by the engineers themselves.  Nerds...