[Cz-engineering] Trying to get some use of this forum started

[Sunburned Surveyor]

Milton,

That was pretty funny. I shared the one with the girl and the bike
with some civil engineers I work with.

Landon

2009/4/16 mbeychok <mbeychok at cox.net>:
> Hello, all:
>
> This forum is very unused. I thought that I might try to rouse some interest
> with a little humor:
>
> (1) Understanding Engineers:
>
> Two engineering students, one pushing a bike, were walking across
> a university  campus when the other 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; her
> clothes probably wouldn't have fit you anyway."
>
> (2) Understanding Engineers:
>
> 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.
>
> (3) Understanding Engineers:
>
> 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 there's anything he can
> do for them."  The engineer said, "Why can't they play at night?"
>
> (4) Understanding Engineers:
>
> Normal people believe that if it isn't broken, don't fix it.
> Engineers believe that if it isn't broken, it doesn't have enough
> features yet.
>
>
> Regards, Milton Beychok
>
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