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Understanding Engineers

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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 here'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:

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.
 
Where I used to work (railroad) we had a leaky tap in the locker room, running onto the tile floor. A pipe-fitter said that the packing needed replacing on the tap. An engineer said the floor needed more drains.
 
I use to work for the P.O. where they fix equipment, if it ain't broke fix it till it is.
 
We always say that a design engineers worst nightmare is working on something he designed. As a maritime opperations engineer I often want to choke the design engineers.
 
Three engineers are having lunch and discussing what kind of engineer God is. The mechanical engineer says, "God must be a mechanical engineer, look at the complex structures of the body!" The electrical engineer says, "No, look at the electrical processes of the body, which the brain could not operate without, he must be an electrical engineer." The civil engineer says, "You're both wrong, he had to be a civil engineer. Who else would run a TOXIC waste line through a recreational area?
 
As both a career fire sprinkler guy and a shadetree mechanic, my question is always the same
when faced with something mechanical and inanimate, yet displaying a distinctly human stubbornness:
"Who the hell came up with THIS? What the hell was he THINKING??" :lol:
 
I'm a Drafter, I work with engineers daily... there is no understanding them :rofl:
 
I worked very closely with engineers when I worked in the firearms industry. We essentially had 3 types; R&D, Development and production. Each would blame the other for something not working and then set to redesigning it themselves; this was a circular effort which only ended when sales and management would step in. I used to call it the "self licking ice cream cone"..
 
Most engineers are as described here, but every now and then, on a rare occasion, you run into an incredibly intelligent, very attractive and mostly humble engineer that you can truly appreciate.
 
I've worked closely with engineers for many years... Most I've had little use for, but I was lucky enough to work with one brilliant man, Rich Schaupp, I wish he was still with us cause his designs simply worked & he always considered serviceability & reliability as part of the initial design... Every project we worked on ran faster & more accurately then anything else available in our industry....

Unfortunately he passed away in Oct 2012...

Equipment he designed is still the absolute fastest in the industry... Other companies have gotten close but they've had seven years now to catch up...

Oh, and they have teams of engineers to hold conferences about designs so no single person was responsible...

Rich designed every aspect of the machines from concept through CE & UL certification
 
And never question their stupidity. After all they are engineers so they think.
The best part is when you come up with an idea for a part they are making, only to be told it’d look too rednecked, only for them to jack around for 7 months with 20 different designs, all of which failed, for them to come back to your original idea and working design, but then act like they thought of it. That one always makes me laugh
 
The new engineer at the office was escorted to his new cubicle by the engineering manager. He was given an assignment to work on, admonished to be as efficient as possible and left to get to it. After a few minutes of quiet work someone in one of the other cubicles hollered a number: "Two-seventy-three." Everyone in the office full of cubicles started laughing for a few moments and then all was quiet again, except for the sound of computer keyboards clicking away. A few minutes later someone else hollered another number and the office responded in the same way. The "new guy" stepped over to the next cubicle and asked what all of this was about. "Well," said the veteran engineer, "in order to be more efficient we have numbered all of the good jokes we know and whenever we want to tell one, we just call out the number. Since your new, you'll want to download the list from the server and get acquainted with our humor data base."

A couple of days later, the new engineer decided it was time to try his hand at this form of humor. He checked the database, assured himself that joke number 39 was very funny and then called out "thirty nine."

The office was silent. This didn't seem to work at all, so he asked the veteran engineer, "Why didn't the office respond with laughter at joke 39, isn't it very funny?" "Oh yes," said the veteran, "joke 39 is hilarious. But you know how it is: Some engineers just cant tell a joke.
:rolleyes:
 
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