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Understanding Engineers #1
Two engineering students were biking across a university campus when one said, "Where did you get such a great bike?"
The second engineer replied, "Well, I was walking along yesterday, minding my own business, when a beautiful woman rode up on this
bike, threw it to the ground, took off all her clothes and said, "Take what you want."
The first engineer nodded approvingly and said, "Good choice: The clothes probably wouldn't have fit you anyway."
Understanding Engineers #2
To the optimist, the glass is half-full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as
it needs to be.
Understanding Engineers #3
A priest, a doctor, and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed, "What's
with those guys? We must have been waiting for fifteen minutes!"
The doctor chimed in, "I don't know, but I've never seen such inept golf!"
The priest said, "Here comes the greens-keeper. Let's have a word with him." He said, "Hello George, What's wrong with that group
ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?"
The greens-keeper replied, "Oh, yes. That's a group of blind firemen. They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last
year, so we always let them play for free anytime!"
The group fell silent for a moment. The priest said, "That's so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight."
The doctor said, "Good idea. I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist colleague and see if there's anything she can do for them."
The engineer said, "Why can't they play at night?"
Understanding Engineers #4
What is the difference between mechanical engineers and civil engineers?
Mechanical engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets.
Understanding Engineers #5
The graduate with a science degree asks, "Why does it work?"
The graduate with an engineering degree asks, "How does it work?"
The graduate with an accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?"
The graduate with an arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?"
Understanding Engineers #6
Three engineering students were gathered together discussing who must have designed the human body. One said, "It was a mechanical
engineer. Just look at all the joints."
Another said, "No, it was an electrical engineer. The nervous system has many thousands of electrical connections."
The last one said, "No, actually it had to have been a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a
recreational area?"
Understanding Engineers #7
Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough
features yet.
MIT Engineers believe that If it isn't broken, take it apart and fix it!
Understanding Engineers #8
An engineer was crossing a road one day, when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful
princess." He bent over, picked up the frog, and put it in his pocket. The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me, I'll
turn back into a beautiful princess and stay with you for one week."
The engineer took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it and returned it to the pocket.
The frog then cried out, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I'll stay with you for one week and do anything you
want."
Again, the engineer took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket.
Finally, the frog asked, "What is the matter? I've told you I'm a beautiful princess and that I'll stay with you for one week and
do anything you want. Why won't you kiss me?"
The engineer said, "Look, I'm an engineer. I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog - now that's cool."
Understanding Engineers #9
An Engineer dies and goes to Hell. Dissatisfied with the level of comfort, he starts designing and building improvements.
After a while, Hell has air conditioning, flush toilets and escalators. The engineer is a pretty popular guy.
One day God calls and asks Satan, "So, how's it going down there?" Satan says, "Hey things are going great. We've got air
conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and there's no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next."
God is horrified. "What? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake - he should never have gone down there! You know all
engineers go to Heaven. Send him up here!"
Satan says, "No way. I like having an engineer on the staff. I'm keeping him."
God says, "Send him back up here or I'll sue."
"Yeah, right," Satan laughs, "and where are you going to get a lawyer?"
Dilbert
Searchable Dilbert.
- Become a gold member at www.dilbert.com and you'll be allowed to search Dilbert
cartoons by "character dialog" or keyword or both)
- Access this free third-party tool to search for words like "COBOL" or "Java"
:-)
"Look: Actual Code"

"Spaghetti Logic"

"When I Started Programming..."

Dilbert's "Salary Theorem"
"
Engineers and scientists can never earn as much as business executives and sales people."
This theorem can now be supported by mathematics as follows:
steps |
datum |
notes |
Postulate 1: |
Knowledge is Power |
|
Postulate 2: |
Time is Money |
|
As every engineer knows: |
Power = Work / Time |
|
Since: |
Knowledge = Power |
from postulate 1 |
And: |
Time = Money |
from postulate 2 |
Then: |
Knowledge = Work / Money |
|
After multipling both sides by money |
Money x Knowledge = Work |
Money cancelled on the right-hand side |
After dividing both sides by knowledge |
Money = Work / Knowledge |
Knowledge cancelled on the left-hand side |
Analysis: As knowledge approaches zero, Money approaches infinity, regardless of the amount of work
done.
Conclusion: The less you know, the more money you make. (ask any CEO or MBA)
Women (As Explained by Engineers)
Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

The IT Crowd
- Not sure why the funniest stuff originates in Britain but this program about computer nerds working for a large company is
reputed to be the inspiration for The Big Bang Theory
- links:
Art imitates life
Sonny: I just might get to like this place. Let's see if the Braves are on. How do you turn on this here teevee?
Riker: Teevee?
Sonny: Yeah, boob-tube... you know. I'd like to find out how the Braves are doin' after all this time. Probably still
finding ways to lose.
Data to Riker: Oh -- I think he means television, sir.
Sonny: Or maybe catch up on the soaps.
Data to Sonny: That particular form of entertainment did not last much beyond the year Two Thousand Forty.
Reference: STAR TREK: THE
NEXT GENERATION - Episode 126 - Titled: "The Neutral Zone"
Reality: Television died in 2004; not 2040
Reason: in order to maximize their profits, the networks decided to replace programs based upon
"professional writing and acting" with "so-called Reality TV"
Sherlock Holmes
Many people are not aware of the best reincarnation
of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous character. Starting in 1984, Granada Television in the UK spent
an enormous amount of money to recreate a section of London England (circa 1895-1905) right down to the carriages, gas lanterns,
and costumes. They only used stories by Doyle so you won't find Holmes fighting the Nazi's as we have seen in other incarnations
from Hollywood. Jeremy Brett plays Holmes and is the most believable of all to date. Granada even goes so far as to end certain
scenes with the actors standing in the same positions as the illustrations as originally published in The
Strand Magazine. The series is always running on PBS in North America and you can now
purchase all 41-episodes as part of a DVD collection.
Music
Spirits In The
Material World - The Police (Ghosts in the Machine)
There is no political solution
To our troubled evolution
Have no faith in constitution
There is no bloody revolution
We are spirits in the material world
Our so-called leaders speak
With words they try to jail you
They subjugate the meek
But it's the rhetoric of failure
We are spirits in the material world
Where does the answer lie?
Living from day to day
If it's something we can't buy
There must be another way
We are spirits in the material world

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Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.