Understanding Engineers

My brother Rolly sent me this in an email:

Understanding Engineers - Take One
Two engineering students were walking across 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. She threw the bike to the ground, took off all her clothes and said, "Take what you want."  The second engineer nodded approvingly and said, "Good choice; the clothes probably wouldn’t have fit."

Understanding Engineers - Take Two
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 - Take Three
A pastor, 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 ineptitude!"  The pastor said, "Hey, here comes the greens keeper.  Let’s have a word with him."  He said, "Hi, George!  Say, what’s 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 firefighters.  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 pastor 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 buddy and see if there’s anything he can do for them."  The engineer said, "Why can’t these guys play at night?"

Understanding Engineers - Take Four
What is the difference between mechanical engineers and civil engineers?  Mechanical engineers build weapons and civil engineers build targets.

Understanding Engineers - Take Five
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 - Take Six
Three engineering students were gathered together discussing the possible designers of 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 - Take Seven
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.

(Actually, it’s management/marketing that believes in "feature creep," and engineers hate them for it.  Not because engineers don’t like cool features, but because they prefer to have the desired features enumerated in the initial specification, which they prefer to receive BEFORE beginning the project, and which marketing/management should not be allowed to change a month before FCS.)

Understanding Engineers - Take Eight
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 and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will 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."

...priceless : )

Posted by Anthony on 1 reply

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01. Jun 23, 2004 at 07:03pm by kaiser:

Hey us mechanical engineers wouldn’t be anywhere without the civils building our targets.  Thanks guys.

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