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Re: Engineers (off topic, don't click if you don't wanna see this)
By:Mark Kanzler
Date: 8/18/1998, 5:01 pm
In Response To: Re: Engineers (Timothy - Toronto, Ontario)

YOU MIGHT BE AN ENGINEER IF ...

1. You stare at an orange juice container because it says CONCENTRATE.

2. Your wrist watch has more computing power than a 486DX-50.

3. You can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie.

4. You can name 6 Star Trek episodes.

5. Your spouse sends you an e-mail instead of calling you to dinner.

6. Your idea of good interpersonal communication means getting the decimal point in the right place.

7. You look forward to Christmas only to put together the kids'toys.

8. You use a CAD package to design your son's Pine Wood Derby car.

9. You have used coat hangers and duct tape for something other than hanging coats and taping ducts.

10. You window shop at Radio Shack.

11. Your ideal evening consists of fast-forwarding through the latest sci-fi movie looking for technical inaccuracies.

12. You are convinced you can build a phaser out of your garage door opener and your camera's flash attachment.

13. You don't even know where the cover to your personal computer is.

14. You have modified your can-opener to be microprocessor driven.

15. You know the direction the water swirls when you flush.

16. You own "Official Star Trek" anything.

17. You ever burned down the gymnasium with your Science Fair project.

18. You are currently gathering the components to build your own nuclear reactor.

19. You own one or more white short-sleeve dress shirts.

20. You truly believe aliens are living among us.

21. You have ever saved the power cord from a broken appliance.

22. You still own a slide rule and you know how to work it.

23. You rotate your screen savers more frequently than your automobile tires.

24. You have a functioning home copier machine, but every toaster you own turns bread into charcoal.

25. You have more toys than your kids.

26. You have introduced your kids by the wrong name.

27. You have a habit of destroying things in order to see how they work.

28. Your I.Q. number is bigger than your weight.

29. The microphone or visual aids at a meeting don't work and you rush up to the front to fix it.

30. You can remember 7 computer passwords but not your anniversary.

31. You have memorized the program schedule for the Discovery channel and have seen most of the shows already.

32. You can type 70 words a minute but can't read your own handwriting.

33. People groan at the party when you pick out the music.

34. You can't remember where you parked your car for the 3rd time this week.

35. You did the sound system for your senior prom.

36. Your checkbook always balances.

37. Your wristwatch has more buttons than a telephone.

38. You have more friends on the Internet than in real life.

39. You thought the real heroes of "Apollo 13" were the mission controllers.

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

41. You spend more on your home computer than your car.

42. You know what http:// stands for.

43. You've ever tried to repair a $5.00 radio.

44. You have a neatly sorted collection of old bolts and nuts in your garage.

45. Your three year old son asks why the sky is blue and you try to explain atmospheric absorption theory.

46. Your 4 basic food groups are: 1. Caffeine 2. Fat 3. Sugar 4. Chocolate.

47. The only jokes you receive are through e-mail.

> We are! We are! We are the engineers! We can! We can! We can
> drink forty beers!

Messages In This Thread

Concrete canoes / kayaks
Allen Williamson -- 8/15/1998, 10:01 am
Re: Concrete canoes / kayaks
NPenney -- 8/18/1998, 6:17 am
Re: Concrete canoes / kayaks
Mark Kanzler -- 8/18/1998, 11:46 am
Re: Engineers
Timothy - Toronto, Ontario -- 8/18/1998, 9:24 am
Re: Engineers (off topic, don't click if you don't wanna see this)
Mark Kanzler -- 8/18/1998, 5:01 pm
The bad part is I answered YES to 75%
Brian C. -- 8/18/1998, 5:42 pm
Re: Concrete canoes / kayaks
Nick Schade -- 8/15/1998, 5:36 pm
Re: Concrete canoes / kayaks
PJacobson -- 8/15/1998, 11:58 pm