Do Engineers have a (Weird) Sense of Humor 15

[MiketheEngineer]

Along the lines of a previous post - Do engineers have a sense a humor (I know some do) or if so - is it quite different than the average Joe??

 

[KENAT]

Nah, 22/7, 21/7...

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[Boothby171]

Oh, goodness....you're one of those.

--Boothby

"The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell

 

[boottmills]

Did somebody say "Pie"?

Boottmills

 

[JohnRBaker]

Who said "ΠR[sup]2[/sup]? Pie are Round, Cake are Square."

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
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To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[EngineerErrant]

I just use the infinite product of nested radicals. Piece of cake.

According to Jörg Arndt and Christoph Haenel, thirty-nine digits are sufficient to perform most cosmological calculations, because that is the accuracy necessary to calculate the volume of the universe with a precision of one atom.

If you know as many digits as boothby's daughter, you can calculate the average circumference of the moon to within a meter, or a circular football stadium accurate within a thousandth of an inch.

"Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems." -Scott Adams

 

[Boothby171]

"Four, minus 4 over three, plus 4 over 5, minus 4 over seven. Dad!?! How many frikkin' terms do I have to bring this out to?"

"With a mouth like that...20."

"Aw! Jesus frikkin' Christ!"

"Thirty, then!"


Ah...memories. I shall enjoy them!

--Boothby

"The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell

 

[magoo2]

When I first started working, I remember asking another engineer, "How's your wife?"

"Compared to what?" was his reply.

Spoken like a true engineer!

 

[little25]

It's probably more dorky...

Ioana

 

[racookpe1978]

You do realize that the pyramids were supposed to be rectangular blocks of stone? None of this cheap, easy-to-build-at-the-top pointed stuff we are stuck with today.

Pharaoh forgot he was talking to an engineer when he said "And I want them built of solid rock. Make them this wide, and this long, and this high."