Two engineering students were walking 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."
Beware of any old man in a profession where one usually dies young.
There�s a story of an engineer happening on a talking frog. The frog made lavish promises to fulfill every fantasy and heart�s desire if restored to being a princess by a simple kiss of love from the engineer. Day after day, the same promises of fulfillment, yet the frog remained as is in the guy�s pocket. The engineer�s final reply? �I just don�t have time in my schedule for a relationship. But a talking frog? That�s cool!�
1. Calculate the smallest limb diameter on a persimmon tree that will support a 10 pound possum.
2. Which of the following cars will rust out the quickest when placed on blocks in your front yard?
A) �66 Ford Fairlane B) '69 Chevrolet Chevelle C) �64 Pontiac GTO
3. If your uncle builds a still that operates at a capacity of 20 gallons of shine per hour, how many car radiators are necessary to condense the product?
4. A pulpwood cutter has a chain saw that operates at 2700 rpm. The density of the pine trees in a plot to be harvested is 470 per acre. The plot is 2.3 acres in size. The average tree diameter is 14 inches. How many Budweiser Tall-Boys will it take to cut the trees?
5. If every old refrigerator in the state vented a charge of R-12 simultaneously, what would be the decrease in the ozone layer?
6. A front porch is constructed of 2x8 pine on 24-inch centers with a field rock foundation. The span is 8 feet and the porch length is 16 feet. The porch floor is 1 inch rough sawn pine. When the porch collapses, how many hound dogs will be killed?
7. A man owns a Arkansas house and 3.7 acres of land in a hollow with an average slope of 15%. The man has 5 children. Can each of the children place a mobile home on the man�s land?
8. A 2-ton pulpwood truck is overloaded and proceeding down a steep grade on a secondary road at 45 mph. The brakes fail. Given the average traffic loading of secondary roads, how many people will swerve to avoid the truck before it crashes at the bottom of the mountain?
For extra credit, how many of the vehicles that swerved will have mufflers and un-cracked windshields?
9. A Coal Mine operates a NFPA Class 1, Division 2 Hazardous Area. The mine employs 120 miners per shift. A gas warning is issued at the beginning of 3rd shift. How many cartons of unfiltered Camels will be smoked during the shift?
10. How many generations will it take before cattle develop two legs shorter than the others because of grazing along a mountainside?
Wind in my hair, Sun on my face, I gazed at the wide open spaces, And I was at home.
“I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love, and it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.” John Steinbeck
The wife and I are engineers. Our son is an engineer married to an engineer, and they had a baby last month. The wife and I took care of the grandkid for an hour, and to make the baby stop crying we sang to the baby. The only song we knew how to sing together was the alphabet. When the baby's parents showed up I told them we had to sing the alphabet. Our son said that is the same song that they have been singing to the baby to get it to stop crying.
Great minds think alike.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
An Englishman, a Frenchman and an Engineer were due to be executed by guillotine.
The Englishman was put in and he said "God Save the Queen.". They dropped the blade but it stopped an inch above his neck. They decided it was divine intervention, so they let him go.
The Frenchman was put in and he said "Vive la France.". They dropped the blade but it stopped an inch above his neck. They decided it was divine intervention, so they let him go.
The Engineer was put in and he said "You know, if you put in some cross braces and greased the runners this thing would work a lot better.".
I worked for two engineering companies (Westinghouse and Sperry) that where highly successful until the companies were taken over by bean-counters. Then they died a quick death.
I worked for a one of the largest Rifle/Shotgun and ammo companies in the world. The engineers then, late 60's, were genuine gun nuts. Now the engineers there play golf and have little interest in shooting.I can see it in their product.
But the bottom line is that if a bean-counter takes over the company where you work make sure the head-hunters have your updated resume. Bean counters may not be stupid, they just act that way when they reach the management stage.
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I prefer classic. Semper Fi I used to run with the hare. Now I'm envious of the tortoise and I do my own stunts but rarely intentionally
I think many of the older engineers had real world experience before becoming engineers - today this is a rare event.
Well.... Older engineers were allowed to be only engineers and todays engineers have to cover every base from purchasing to marketing requirements. Its always an engineers fault, but it seems like no one will go ahead till and engineer blesses it or gives in to a VP releasing the product too soon so they hit a deadline. Then they blame engineering later if it doesn't go right....
What's worse than an engineer in your living room?
Two engineers in your living room. ---
What's worse than two engineers in your living room?
Two engineers in your workshop trying to organize it. ---
What's worse than two engineers in your workshop?
Two engineers that find your tools and try to determine exactly what they're for and how they work. ---
What's worse than two engineers with tools?
Nothing. ---
I've seen grown men chew through their own necks rather than deal with engineers. Sadly, as these men were chewing through their necks, there were couple of engineers with calculators determining the most efficient method of chewing through one's neck. ---
It's all good to make fun of engineers or any other profession. I suspect a couple of the more vitriolic among you, would probably be shoveling crap behind the elephant if not for engineers. Yea, a lot of us are a bit socially retarded, how many mountain men or woods dwellers aren't? Doesn't make them bad or stupid.
The thing I find amusing sorta, is how some shop guys love to stand around and criticize the engineers, but ask one to step up and come up with something himself and they typically stare at their shoes and mumble something about it not being their problem. So driving the train ain't something they are even willing to do.
I do agree with humdinger, it used to be that you could design stuff and help it get built in the shop. Nowadays, you find the work, bid on it, design it, draw it, bid it, do construction management, and then do training, sales and service for a couple of years after. The career has changed a bit, of course depends on what field you are in.
Sorry for the sidetrack, some good jokes on this thread.....