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Capp
December 16th, 2004, 11:32 AM
Signs you may be an engineer:

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*At Christmas, it goes without saying that you will be the one that find the burnt-out bulb in the string of Christmas lights

*For you, it becomes a moral dilemma to decide whether to buy flowers for your wife or spend the money to upgrade the RAM on your computer

*On the Alaskan Cruise, everyone else is on deck peering at the scenery and you are still on a personal tour of the engine room

*In college, you thought the Summer break was metal fatigue failure

*The only jokes you receive are through e-mail

*The salespeople at the local computer store can't answer any of your questions

*You are always late to meetings

*At an air show, you know how fast the skydivers are falling

*If you were on death row in a French prison and you find that the guillotine is not working properly, you would offer to fix it

*You bought your wife a new CD-ROM for her birthday

*You can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie

*You can type 70 words per minute but can't read your own handwriting

*You can't write unless the paper has both horizontal and vertical lines

*You comment to your wife that her straight hair is nice and parallel

*You never have matching socks on

*You save the power cords from a broken appliance

*You have more friends online than you do in real life

*You have never backed up your hard drive

*You have never bought any new underwear or socks for yourself since you got married

*You know what http:// stands for

*You look forward to Christmas only to put together your kids' toys

*You see a good design and still have to change it

*You still own a slide rule and you know how to use it

*You laptop costs more than your car

*You think that when people around you yawn, it's because they didn't get enough sleep

se7engreen
December 16th, 2004, 12:03 PM
Lol
It's funny how many of those actually apply. But I don't know anything about a slide rule though...

Capp
December 16th, 2004, 12:15 PM
Ya, I read those and couldn't help but laugh because of how many were true.

We are no longer "Geeks" or "Nerds"....now we are "Engineers" ;D

nadirah
December 16th, 2004, 12:31 PM
I'm a computer engineer because I wanna use my money for upgrading my computer's RAM. ;D

nod32_9
December 16th, 2004, 12:54 PM
Hmmm...4 matches out of 25.

Cochise
December 16th, 2004, 02:50 PM
Matched more than I cared to.........didn't and don't know anything about the 'Slidy Rule thingy'..... ;D......When I think about it tho' maybe the fact that I 'Served' my time as a Steam and Diesel Marine Engineer might have something to do with it....... ;D ;)


Cochise, 8)

Uguel707
December 16th, 2004, 03:25 PM
Lol Capp!
They were excellent! ;D

Rita
December 16th, 2004, 04:32 PM
Great one Capp--guess I'm an engineer ;D ;D ;D



-{ Quote: "Signs you may be an engineer:

========================================

*At an air show, you know how fast the skydivers are falling

*If you were on death row in a French prison and you find that the guillotine

is not working properly, you would offer to fix it
*You can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie

*You can't write unless the paper has both horizontal and vertical lines

*You never have matching socks on

*You save the power cords from a broken appliance

*You have never backed up your hard drive

*You know what http:// stands for

*You see a good design and still have to change it

" }-

Capp
December 17th, 2004, 10:34 AM
Here's another sign that is appropriate for the season...


*Most of the items on your Christmas list make no sense to the rest of your family

-or-

*You tell everyone what you want for Christmas and they look at you like you are speaking greek

Terryala
December 17th, 2004, 01:38 PM
Slide Rule thingie was what we "old timers used before calculators ". Now we use it to fix our Computers.TV'S etc by giving them a good whack with the slide rule to make them work.

Grand Dad

BeetleBoss
December 17th, 2004, 01:58 PM
Capp, LOLOL!!! That was so funny and so true!!!
I sent that to my dad....he's a retired engineer. ;D