Apparently ConservativeDialysis just discovered the Rube Goldberg contest:
I can only imagine what would have happened if they had asked the students to change a lightbulb.
In honor of this discovery, I offer the following Engineering tomfoolery:
Q: When does a person decide to become an engineer?
A: When he realizes he doesn't have the charisma to be an undertaker.
Q: What do engineers use for birth control?
A: Their personalities.
Q: How can you tell an extroverted engineer?A: When he talks to you, he looks at your shoes instead of his own.
Q: Why did the engineers cross the road?
A: Because they looked in the file, and that's what they did last year.
Q: How do you drive an engineer completely insane?
A: Tie him to a chair, stand in front of him, and fold up a road map the wrong way.
You might be an engineer if:
- Choosing between buying flowers for your wife and upgrading your RAM is a problem.
- You take a cruise so you can go on a personal tour of the engine room.
- In college, you thought Spring Break was metal fatigue failure.
- The salespeople at the local computer store can't answer any of your questions.
- At an air show, you know how fast the skydivers are falling.
- For your wife's birthday you gave her a new CD-ROM drive or a Palm Pilot.
- You can quote scenes from any Monte Python movie.
- You can type 70 words per minute but you can't read your own handwriting.
- You comment to your wife that her straight hair is nice and parallel.
- You sit backwards on Disney rides so you can see how they do the special effects.
- You have saved every power cord from all your broken appliances.
- You have more friends on the Internet than in real life.
- You know what "http://" stands for.
- You look forward to Christmas so you can put together the kids toys.
- You see a good design, and have to change it.
- You have spent more on a calculator than you did on your wedding ring.
- You still own a slide rule and know how to use it.
- You think that people yawning around you are sleep deprived.
- You window shop at Radio Shack.
- Your laptop computer cost more than your car.
- Your wife hasn't the foggiest idea of what you do at work.
- You've already calculated how much you make per second.
- You've tried to repair a $5 radio.
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