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[OakLeaf]

A wise(a$$?) engineer who sits near me at work and comes out with sage sayings is fond of saying "An engineer is somebody who is trained to do with $2 what anybody could do with $100."

As a college math major and daughter of a high school math teacher, that reminds me of the old joke about the engineer, the physicist and the mathematician.

They're all staying in a hotel for a convention. In the middle of the night, the engineer wakes up to find that her trash can is on fire. She grabs the ice bucket off the dresser, runs to the bathroom, fills it with water, dumps it on the fire, and goes back to sleep.

Later the same night, the physicist wakes to find that her trash can is on fire. She glances at the amount of waste paper in the can, estimates the distance between her bed and the bathroom sink, hurriedly boots up her computer, furiously works calculus equations. Then she gets up, grabs the ice bucket off the dresser, runs to the bathroom, draws the exact amount of water necessary to put out the fire, dumps it on the trash can, and goes back to sleep.

Last, the mathematician wakes to find her trash can on fire. Without delay she boots up her computer and furiously works equations. After long minutes pass, she exclaims: "The problem has a solution!" And goes back to sleep.


/hijack

[pinkbikes]

Rotfl!

WAY to many good engineer jokes... and unfortunately far too many grains of truth in all of them!!