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Engineer's Jokes |
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Here are a few Engineers related jokes for your amusement
In the dark A pastor, a doctor and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed, "What's with these guys? We must have been waiting for 15 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." [dramatic pause] "Hi George. Say, what's with that group ahead of us?! They're rather slow, aren't they?" he 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 was 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. And 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?" |
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Over Capicity 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. |
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The Right Place There was an engineer who had an exceptional gift for fixing all things mechanical. After serving his company loyally for over 30 years, he happily retired. Several years later the company contacted him regarding a seemingly impossible problem they were having with one of their multimillion-dollar machines. They had tried everything and everyone else to get the machine to work, but to no avail. In desperation, they called on the retired engineer who had solved so many of their problems in the past. The engineer reluctantly took the challenge. He spent a day studying the huge machine. At the end of the day, he marked a small "x" in chalk on a particular component of the machine and stated, "This is where your problem is". The part was replaced and the machine worked perfectly again. The company received a bill for $50,000 from the engineer for his service. They demanded an itemized accounting of his charges. The engineer responded briefly: One chalk mark $1 knowing where to put it $49,999 It was paid in full and the engineer retired again in peace. |
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In The Dark A pastor, a doctor and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed, "What's with these guys? We must have been waiting for 15 minutes!" The doctor chimed in, "I don't know, but I've never seen such ineptitude! "The pastor said, "Hey, here comes the greenskeeper. Let's have a word with him." [Dramatic pause] "Hi George. Say, what's with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?" The greenskeeper replied, "Oh, yes, that's a group of blind firefighters. They ost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we always let them play for free anytime." The group was 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. And 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?" |
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What is the difference between Mechanical Engineers and Civil Engineers? Mechanical Engineers build weapons, Civil Engineers build targets. |
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Fix It "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." |
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Cool 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 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 that I'll stay with you for a 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." Such a waste hree 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 said, "Actually it was a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area?"
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An engineer died and reported to the pearly gates. An intern angel, filling in for St. Peter, checked his dossier and grimly said, "Ah, you're an engineer; you're in the wrong place." So the engineer was cast down to the gates of hell and was let in. Pretty soon, the engineer became gravely dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and began designing and building improvements. After a while, the underworld had air conditioning, flush toilets, and escalators, and the engineer was becoming a pretty popular guy among the demons. One day, God called Satan up on the telephone and asked with a sneer, "So, how's it going down there in hell?" Satan laughed and replied, "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's face clouded over and he exploded, "What? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake; he should never have gotten down there; send him up here." Satan shook his head, "No way. I like having an engineer on the staff, and I'm keeping him." God was as mad as he had ever been, "This is not the way things are supposed to work and you know it. Send him back up here or I'll sue." Satan laughed uproariously, "Yeah, right. And just where are YOU going to get a lawyer?" |
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Aircraft Maintenance Problems and Solutions:
Never let it be said that ground crews and engineers lack a sense of humour. Here are some actual logged maintenance complaints and problems, known as squawks," submitted by pilots and the solution recorded by maintenance engineers. P = The problem logged by the pilot. S = The solution and action taken by the engineers. P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement. S: Almost replaced left inside main tire. P: Test flight OK, except autoland very rough. S: Autoland not installed on this aircraft. P: No. 2 propeller seeping prop fluid. S: No. 2 propeller seepage normal. Nos. 1, 3 and 4 propellers lack normal seepage. P: Something loose in cockpit. S: Something tightened in cockpit. P: Dead bugs on windshield. S: Live bugs on backorder. P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200-fpm descent. S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground. P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear. S: Evidence removed. P: DME volume unbelievably loud. S: DME volume set to more believable level. P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick. S: That's what they're there for! P: IFF inoperative. S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode. P: Suspected crack in windscreen. S: Suspect you're right. P: Number 3 engine missing. S: Engine found on right wing after brief search. P: Aircraft handles funny. S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right, and be serious. P: Target radar hums. S: Reprogrammed target radar with words. P: Mouse in cockpit. S: Cat installed. |
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You Might Be an Engineer if. your favorite James Bond character is "Q". you see a good design and still have to change it. you still own a slide rule and you know how to use it. your family haven't the foggiest idea what you do at work. in college you thought Spring Break was metal fatigue failure. you have modified your can-opener to be microprocessor driven. you are better with a Karnaugh map than you are with a street map. you think the real heroes of "Apollo 13" were the mission controllers. you take a cruise so you can go on a personal tour of the engine room. you think "cuddling" is simply an unproductive application of heat exchange you have owned a calculator with no equal key and know what RPN stands for. you make four sets of drawings (with seven revisions) before making a bird bath. you have trouble writing anything unless the paper has horizontal and vertical lines. your ideal evening consists of fast-forwarding through the latest sci-fi movie looking for technical inaccuracies. you think the value of a book is directly proportionate to the amount of tables, charts and graphs it contains |
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YOU MIGHT BE AN ENGINEERING MAJOR..
if you have no life - and you can PROVE it mathematically. if you know vector calculus but you can't remember how to do long division. if you've actually used every single function on your graphing calculator. if it is sunny and 70 degrees outside, and you are working on a computer. if you know how to integrate a chicken and can take the derivative of water. if you think in "math." if you have a pet named after a scientist. if you laugh at jokes about mathematicians. if the Humane society has you arrested because you actually performed the Schrodinger's Cat experiment. if you can translate English into Binary. if you can't remember what's behind the door in the science building which says "Exit." If you are completely addicted to caffeine. if you consider ANY non-science course "easy." if when your professor asks you where your homework is, you claim to have accidentally determined its momentum so precisely, that according to Heisenberg it could be anywhere in the universe. if the "fun" center of your brain has deteriorated from lack of use. if you'll assume that a "horse" is a "sphere" in order to make the math easier. if you understood more than five of these indicators. if you make a hard copy of this list, and post it on your door |
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Engineers' Terminologies
1. A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES ARE BEING TRIED We are stil pissing in the wind. 2. EXTENSIVE REPORT IS BEING PREPARED ON A FRESH APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM We just hired three kids fresh out of college. 3. CLOSE PROJECT COORDINATION We know who to blame. 4. MAJOR TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGH It works OK, but looks very hitech. 5. TEST RESULTS WERE EXTREMELY GRATIFYING We are so surprised that the stupid thing works. 6. THE ENTIRE CONCEPT WILL HAVE TO BE ABANDONED The only person who understood the thing quit. 7. IT IS IN THE PROCESS It is so wrapped up in red tape that the situation is about hopeless. 8. WE WILL LOOK INTO IT Forget it! We have enough problems for now. 9. PLEASE NOTE AND INITIAL Let's spread the responsibility for the screw up. 10. GIVE US YOUR INTERPRETATION I can't wait to hear this bull! 11. SEE ME or LET'S DISCUSS Come into my office, I'm lonely. 12. ALL NEW Parts not interchangeable with the previous design. 13. RUGGED Too damn heavy to lift! 14. LIGHTWEIGHT Lighter than RUGGED. 15. YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT One finally worked.
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