You know what's even scarier? Tom's an engineer, and he was baffled!

OK, here's the quiz:

A service is:
a) something somebody does for you.
b) a branch of the US military
c) a gathering to commemorate someone's passing
d) work performed on your car

In the new design, requests for services will be routed through:
a) Macaroni Message Cuneiforms
b) Mackerel Messy Curtains
c) Macrocephalic Messianic Cuties
d) MacDonald's Messy Kitchen

Passing requests through the above does what to them?
a) bashes them up
b) bitches about them
c) patches them up
d) disciplines them, thoroughly and enthusiastically

Serialization is the process of
a) turning plants into breakfast food
b) breaking a story into many episodes
c) stamping an identifying number on your forehead, usually a barcode

In the present design, how long does it take to create a queue?
a) too long
b) an eternity
c) until the heat death of the universe
d) roughly one million microseconds

What the heck's a queue?
a) A recurring character in Star Trek
b) The continuum in which answer "a" lives
c) The end of the thing you stick in your ear to clean it.
d) Your signal to go on.

What is a benefit of caching?
a) You get the spend the money represented by the check.
b) You turn your chips into real money.
c) If you're dyslexic, you get to sleep after you cache and bun.

What's a TOC?
a) the sound that follows "TIC".
b) an insect that infests dyslexics
c) an acronym standing for "Totally Obscure Conversation"
d) an acronym for "Totally Obdurate Conversationalist" (i.e., a Zone poster)

Which is the front of the TOC?
a) zero
b) infinity
c) the side with the headlights
d) TOCs don't have fronts, they're round

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