OT A Friday funny

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  [*]your favorite James Bond character is "Q".
  
  [*]you see a good design and still have to change it.
  
  [*]you still own a slide rule and you know how to use it.
  
  [*]your family haven't the foggiest idea what you do at work.
  
  [*]in college you thought Spring Break was metal fatigue failure.
  
  [*]you have modified your can-opener to be microprocessor driven.
  
  [*]you are better with a Karnaugh map than you are with a street map.
  
  [*]you think the real heroes of "Apollo 13" were the mission controllers.
  
  [*]you take a cruise so you can go on a personal tour of the engine room.
  
  [*]you make four sets of drawings (with seven revisions) before making a bird bath.
  
  [*]you have trouble writing anything unless the paper has horizontal and vertical lines.
  
  [*]your ideal evening consists of fast-forwarding through the latest sci-fi movie looking for technical inaccuracies.
  
  [*]you think the value of a book is directly proportionate to the amount of tables, charts and graphs it contains.

MartB said:

A mathmatician, a physicist, and an engineer were all given a red rubber ball and told to find the volume.

The mathmatician carefully measured the diameter and evaluated a triple integral.

The physicist filled a beaker with water, put the ball in the water, and measured the total displacement.

The engineer looked up the model and serial numbers in his red-rubber-ball table.

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MartB said:

You Might Be an Engineer if...you take a cruise so you can go on a personal tour of the engine room.

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MartB said:

You Might Be an Engineer if...

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• The sales people at RadioShack can't answer any of your questions
• You are aware that computers are actually only good for playing games
• You bought your wife a new CD ROM for her birthday
• You can type 70 words a minute but can't read your own handwriting
• You comment to your wife that her straight hair is nice and parallel
• You find yourself at the airport on your vacation studying the baggag handling equipment
• You go on the rides at Disneyland and sit backwards in the chairs to see how they do the special effects
• You use a CAD package to design your son's Pine Wood Derby car

BudW said:

Then a NewBe posted a new thread and asked if any one knew the volume of a red rubber ball?

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geniusintraining said:

• You find yourself at the airport on your vacation studying the baggag handling equipment

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dmroeder said:

Nice!

While we are on the subject of nerds: Click

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geniusintraining said:

• The sales people at RadioShack can't answer any of your questions
• You are aware that computers are actually only good for playing games
• You bought your wife a new CD ROM for her birthday
• You can type 70 words a minute but can't read your own handwriting
• You comment to your wife that her straight hair is nice and parallel
• You find yourself at the airport on your vacation studying the baggag handling equipment
• You go on the rides at Disneyland and sit backwards in the chairs to see how they do the special effects
• You use a CAD package to design your son's Pine Wood Derby car

and.... Your spouse sends you an email instead of calling you to dinner <---not for dinner, she says come home...

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• Your hobbies seem to cost 10 times as much as everyone else's
• Reading philosophy brings you out in a nasty rash
• Your knowledge of TLAs is 1337
• Reading tech sites is your idea of relaxing after work

• You start to wonder if there is a pattern to your girlfriend's behaviour

Binaural said:

You start to wonder if there is a pattern to your girlfriend's behaviour

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