Squirt

Squirt or squirting can refer to the following:

Animals

Arts and entertainment

Health and medicine

Products

Sports and games

See also

Squirt (Fluke song)

"Squirt" is a single by the English electronic music band Fluke.

Amongst the Squirt versions there are two known releases which have mislabeled tracks. The version YRCDX127 has a mislabeled track where Squirt (Pdfmone) is actually Slid (Pdfmone) and YRT127 is labeled by some discographies as a mis-press: "On the cover (picture sleeve) the tracks are written as above, but on the innerlabel it's written: A SIDE: A01 Squirt (full vox) A02 Squirt (the europicolamix) B SIDE: B01 Slid (modwheel mix) B02 Squirt (remixed by dub)"

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Squirt (soft drink)

Squirt is a caffeine-free, citrus-flavored, carbonated soft drink, created in 1938 in Phoenix, Arizona.

History

Squirt was created by Herb Bishop in 1938, after experimenting in college, Citrus Club. The result required less fruit juice and less sugar, which Bishop declared had the "freshest, most exciting taste in the marketplace".

In 1941, a mascot named "Lil' Squirt" was created in an effort to broaden public awareness. Squirt became a popular soft drink in many parts of the country, especially the West and Southwest. In the 1950s, it became accepted as a mixer used in cocktails.

The Squirt brand has changed ownership several times and is currently the property of Dr Pepper Snapple Group.

Product line

Squirt is naturally flavored but contains less than 1% grapefruit juice. Like many other soft drinks, the packaging of Squirt has varied over the years.

In 1983, Diet Squirt, the first soft drink in the United States to be sweetened with aspartame, was introduced.

In the mid 1980s, a vitamin-C-enriched Diet Squirt Plus was briefly marketed.

Fluke

A fluke is a lucky or improbable occurrence, with the implication that the occurrence could not be repeated.

Fluke may also refer to:

Biology

People

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Other uses

Summer flounder

The summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) is a marine flatfish that is found in the Atlantic Ocean off the East coast of the United States and Canada. It is especially abundant in waters from North Carolina to Massachusetts.

Description

Paralichthys dentatus (Linnaeus, 1766), also called a fluke, is a member of the large-tooth flounder family Paralichthyidae. There are typically 5 to 14 ocellated (eye-like) spots on the body. Like most members of the left-eye flounders, they can change the color and pattern of their dark side to match the surrounding bottom, and are also capable of rapidly burrowing into muddy or sandy bottoms. The teeth are quite sharp and well developed on both upper and lower jaws. The average summer flounder reaches sexual maturity at 2 years and weighs 1 to 3 pounds, typically 15 to 20 inches in length, though they may grow as large as 26 pounds and live up to 20 years with females making up the largest and oldest specimens. Adults are highly predatory and considered mostly piscivorous, often lying buried with only their head exposed to ambush prey which includes sand lance, menhaden, atlantic silverside, mummichog killifish, small bluefish, porgies, squid, shrimp, and crabs. While primarily considered a bottom fish, they are rapid swimmers over short distances and can become very aggressive, feeding actively at middepths, even chasing prey to the surface.

Fluke Corporation

Fluke Corporation, a subsidiary of the Danaher Corporation, is a manufacturer of industrial testing equipment including electronic test equipment. It was started in 1948 by John Fluke, a friend and roommate of David Packard, future co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, when both were employed at General Electric.

Today, Fluke Corporation is a global corporation with operations worldwide. It designs, develops, manufactures, and sells commercial electronic test and measurement instruments for scientific, service, educational, industrial, and government applications. Fluke Biomedical and Fluke Networks are sister organizations.

History

Fluke Corporation was founded in Washington state by John Fluke on October 7, 1953 as the John Fluke Manufacturing Company, Inc., producing electrical metering equipment.

In certain instrumentation categories, Fluke was a strong competitor to U.S instrumentation leader Hewlett-Packard, and in the category of calibration equipment, Fluke was the industry leader. By the end of the decade, the total market for test and measurement equipment had grown to $6 billion. Fluke's share of that figure was a healthy $150 million annually by the end of the 1970s. Industry sales continued to increase in the 1980s. Between 1975 and 1985, Fluke's sales rose at an annual average of nearly 20 percent, but with the late 1980s contraction in U.S. defense spending due to a reduction in United States-Russia tension, Fluke's sales to the government and to aerospace companies declined. The sale of Fluke's line of large bench and rack mounted equipment such as digital voltmeters and signal scanners weakened due to the increased use of PC controlled measurement and sensing modules embedded with the computer. However, in the arena of very portable hand held instruments for signal analysis and voltage measurement, Fluke was a leader. Sales in this category remained strong.