Near Matches
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Real Engineers
(
person
)
by
Archetype
Wed May 03 2000 at 6:56:30
Real Engineers consider themselves well dressed if their
socks match
.
Real Engineers buy their spouses a set of
matching screwdrivers
for their birthday.
Real Engineers wear moustaches or beards for "efficiency". Not because they're lazy.
Real engineers have a non-technical vocabulary of 800 words.
Real Engineers think a "biting wit" is their fox terrier.
Real Engineers know the
second law of thermodynamics
- but not their own shirt size.
Real Engineers repair their own
camera
s,
telephone
s,
television
s,
watch
es, and
automatic transmission
s.
Real Engineers say "It's 77 degrees
Fahrenheit
, 25 degrees
Celsius
, and 298
Kelvin
," and all you say is "Isn't it a nice day."
Real Engineers give you the feeling you're having a conversation with a dial tone or busy signal.
Real Engineers wear badges so they don't forget who they are. Sometimes a note is attached saying "Don't offer me a ride today. I drove my own car."
Real Engineers' politics run towards acquiring a parking space with their name on it and an office with a window.
Real Engineers know the "ABC's of Infrared" from A to B.
Real Engineers rotate their tyres for laughs.
Real Engineers will make four sets of drawings (with seven revisions) before making a bird bath.
Real Engineers' briefcases contain a Phillips screwdriver, a copy of "Quantum Physics", and a half of a peanut butter sandwich.
Real Engineers don't find the above at all funny.
Second law of thermodynamics
engineer
How lightning causes RFI
eit
Matching Tie & Handkerchief
Harvey Mudd
arch
Fleetwood Mac
Real men
Cryptography
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