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Real Engineers consider
themselves well dressed if their socks match. |
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Real Engineers
buy their spouses a set of matched screwdrivers for their
birthday. |
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Real
Engineers wear moustaches or beards for "efficiency",
not because they're lazy. |
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Real Engineers have a non-technical
vocabulary of 800 words. |
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Real Engineers know the
second law of thermodynamics - but not their own shirt
size. |
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Real Engineers say "It's
70 degrees Fahrenheit, 25 degrees Celsius and 298 degrees
Kelvin" and all you say is "Isn't it a nice
day" . |
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Real Engineers' politics
run towards acquiring a parking space with their name
on it and an office with a window. |
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Real Engineers will make
four sets of drawings (with seven revisions) before making
a bird bath. |
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Real Engineers know that
Halloween is really the same as Christmas, because OCT
31 = DEC 25. (If you don't get it, then you're not a Real
Engineer.) |
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Real Engineers don't find
the above at all funny. |

Top 12 Engineers' Terminologies
1.A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES
ARE BEING TRIED
We still don't have a clue.
2.CLOSE PROJECT COORDINATION
We know who to blame.
3.MAJOR TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGH
It works OK, but looks very hi-tech.
4.CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IS DELIVERED
ASSURED
We are so far behind schedule the customer is happy to get
it delivered.
5.PRELIMINARY OPERATIONAL TESTS
WERE INCONCLUSIVE
It blew up when we threw the switch.
6.TEST RESULTS WERE EXTREMELY GRATIFYING
We are so surprised that it works.
7.THE ENTIRE CONCEPT WILL HAVE TO
BE ABANDONED
The only person who understood the thing quit.
8.GIVE US THE BENEFIT OF YOUR THINKING
We'll listen to what you have to say as long as it doesn't
interfere with what we've already done.
9.ALL NEW
Parts not interchangeable with the previous design.
10.YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT
One finally worked.
11.ENERGY SAVING
Achieved when the power switch is off.
12.LOW MAINTENANCE
Impossible to fix if broken.
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