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Jokes (just for Engineers?)

msrobotsmsrobots Posts: 3,709
edited 2014-09-29 12:00 in General Discussion
Finally Noah's Arch hits land.

He opens the gate and let all animals get out. He says 'Go ahead and multiply' and off they go.
Since he is a prudent man he goes around the ship and checks if everything is OK.
Finishing this last task he walks back to the gate to close it. He has done all he could and everything was fine.
Now he can rest for a while after this hard work and the long journey.

Except - them two snakes. Sill sitting there. So he said again 'Go ahead and multiply'. And them snakes don't move.
"We are adders." they say. "We can't multiply".

So Noah takes a deep breath, grabs his toolbox and fells a tree. After cutting a nice log out of the tree, he builds a small but sturdy table out of the log.
He grabs the snakes and puts them on the table. And again he said 'Now go ahead and multiply'.
The snakes are looking at Noah, and Noah is looking at the snakes. "But we are adders" the snakes finally say. 'We can't multiply'

And Noah, with the feeling of a men having his job done properly and finished says:

No problem. Even adders can multiply on a Log Table.

Enjoy!

Mike

Comments

  • msrobotsmsrobots Posts: 3,709
    edited 2014-09-21 00:15
    another short one

    'I had a root beer, poured it into a square cup, now it's beer!'

    Enjoy!

    Mike
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2014-09-21 10:14
    I've always heard that an order of magnitude is just 10 times among friends ....

    Googling "order of magnitude joke" I found these selected nerd jokes gems ....
    A mathematician walks into a bar and asks for ten times the normal number of drinks anyone else has. “Wow,” says the barkeep, “That’s an order of magnitude.”

    An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third, a quarter of a beer. The bartender says “You’re all idiots”, and pours two beers.

    A mathematician and an engineer agreed to take part in a psychological test. They sat on one side of a room and waited not knowing what to expect. A door opened on the other side and a naked woman came in the room and stood on the far side. They were then instructed that every time they heard a beep they could move half the remaining distance to the woman. They heard a beep and the engineer jumped up and moved halfway across the room while the mathematician continued to sit, looking disgusted and bored. When the mathematician didn’t move after the second beep he was asked why. “Because I know I will never reach the woman.” The engineer was asked why he chose to move and replied, “Because I know that very soon I will be close enough for all practical purposes!”

    Einstein, Pascal, and Newton are playing hide and go seek. Einstein is counting while Newton and Pascal hide. Pascal runs off and hides while Newton doesn’t move an inch. Instead, he draws a square around himself in the dirt. After Einstein finishes counting, he opens his eyes and says, “Found you Newton! That was easy.”
    Newton says, “No you didn’t. You found Pascal.” He points down to the square in the dirt. “One Newton per meter squared.”
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-09-21 12:43
    A true story...

    As a young student of physics I bought myself a beer in the student union bar.
    Then a friend arrived and bought a round.
    Then another guy arrived and bought a round.
    And then another... and another.
    At the end of the evening there were nine guys around the table all looking at me. It was my round.

    That was an order of magnitude!



    How did the mathematician deal with his constipation? He worked it out with a pencil on paper.
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2014-09-21 13:53
    Rene Descartes was in a cafe eating pie. Each time he finished, "Waiter! More pie!" he shouted.

    After he had eaten three pies, he bagan to slow down. The waiter asked, said "Rene, would you like more pie?"

    Descartes replied, "I think not". And he disappeared.
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2014-09-21 15:18
    ... Descartes replied, "I think not". And he disappeared.


    LOL
  • bomberbomber Posts: 297
    edited 2014-09-21 21:11
    This is more along the lines of programming than engineering, but it still fits the bill nicely:
    programmingComparison.jpg


    (source: http://i.imgur.com/CfSwf.jpg)

    Oh, and my sig might cause some merriment.
    960 x 615 - 112K
  • varnonvarnon Posts: 184
    edited 2014-09-22 07:37
    Rene Descartes was in a cafe eating pie. Each time he finished, "Waiter! More pie!" he shouted.

    After he had eaten three pies, he bagan to slow down. The waiter asked, said "Rene, would you like more pie?"

    Descartes replied, "I think not". And he disappeared.

    This is the only one I don't get. I'm more familiar with Descartes's influence on philosophy than mathematics.


    My favorite so far is "The bartender says “You’re all idiots”, and pours two beers."
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-09-22 07:39
    "I think therefore I am" - Descartes.

    The pie thing is a distraction.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2014-09-22 07:53
  • Mark_TMark_T Posts: 1,981
    edited 2014-09-23 09:50
    The electron was late getting to the train station, the train had started to move,
    but all was well, it lepton!

    We all now feel like msrobot's icon!
  • ctwardellctwardell Posts: 1,716
    edited 2014-09-23 14:19
    An engineer walked into a bar...the second one ducked.

    C.W.
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2014-09-23 18:15
    ctwardell wrote: »
    An engineer walked into a bar...the second one ducked.

    C.W.

    LOL
  • bomberbomber Posts: 297
    edited 2014-09-23 20:36
    Two chemists walked into a bar. Chemist #1 told the bartender, "I'll have some H2O". The second chemist said "I'll have some H2O too". Later that night the second chemist fell off his chair and died. The end.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-09-23 20:40
    Poor old John is dead and gone,
    he is with us no more,
    what he thought was H2O,
    was H2SO4.
  • NWCCTVNWCCTV Posts: 3,629
    edited 2014-09-23 23:04
    Two chemists walked into a bar. Chemist #1 told the bartender, "I'll have some H2O". The second chemist said "I'll have some H2O too". Later that night the second chemist fell off his chair and died. The end.
    How did the Bartender know he ordered Hydrogen Peroxide? Also, I do not think that amount would have killed him!!!!
  • W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
    edited 2014-09-24 01:23
    NWCCTV wrote: »
    How did the Bartender know he ordered Hydrogen Peroxide? Also, I do not think that amount would have killed him!!!!

    Pure H2O2 would have killed him quite quickly, and quite impressively.

    edit: so I was searching YouTube, just knowing that there would be a video of someone using highly concentrated H2O2 to start fires and what do I find? Matt, a fellow Propeller user and forum lurker playing with concentrated hydrogen Peroxide.
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2014-09-25 06:53
    Maybe a stretch, please accept "engineer of war" as qualifier:

    How many retired Gurkha solders does it take to subdue 30 taliban bandits on a train?

    Apparently just one.

    Caution: link may contain language suitable for describing one Gurkha subduing 30 taliban bandits on a train.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2014-09-25 07:15
    prof,

    That post was way below the standards of this forum.
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2014-09-26 06:42
    My joke wasn't funny enough? In thread about jokes for engineers? OUCH! You guys are a tough crowd, alright.

    My thinking was that it followed the proper format, is extremely interesting, and contained sufficient warning for anyone that might be offended by things not completely sanitized of emotional content. Of course, I am quite frequently wrong, particularly concerning humor.

    As moderator, please delete these and any of my posts that are not appropriate. Although as a person I think this "politically correctness" censorship is out of hand and dehumanizing.
  • msrobotsmsrobots Posts: 3,709
    edited 2014-09-26 19:53
    Some short one - about cooperative behavior

    A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day. A rabbit asked him, "Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?"
    The crow answered, "Sure, why not?"
    So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. A fox jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

    Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very high up.

    Mike
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2014-09-26 20:30
    varnon wrote: »
    I'm more familiar with Descartes's influence on philosophy than mathematics.

    Just for future reference ...

    Cartesian Coordinates


  • W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
    edited 2014-09-26 20:44
    Maybe a stretch, please accept "engineer of war" as qualifier:

    How many retired Gurkha solders does it take to subdue 30 taliban bandits on a train?

    Apparently just one.

    Caution: link may contain language suitable for describing one Gurkha subduing 30 taliban bandits on a train.

    I was in Ghorka about 20 years ago. It was the first place where I saw the Himalyas. It was on the hike down from the palace that one of locals, an old man, stopped us to point at the clouds. It had been cloudy for days. I looked where he was pointing and saw nothing. He insisted that something was there so I looked again, and saw a break in the clouds - above the clouds - through which you could see a jagged, partially snow covered peak. Damn that was an impressive sight, and those were just the foothills.

    A couple hours later I ran into a group a kids who were fascinated with my video camera. Then an older woman wanted to see too. I let her look through the viewfinder. She looked for a moment then jerked away howling and waving her arms. She gathered some kids and hastily retreated.
  • msrobotsmsrobots Posts: 3,709
    edited 2014-09-26 23:12
    and a longer one - unrelated.

    An old German Shepherd starts chasing rabbits and before long, discovers that he's lost. Wandering about, he notices a panther heading rapidly in his direction with the intention of having lunch..

    The old German Shepherd thinks, "Oh, oh! I'm in deep **** now!"


    Noticing some bones on the ground close by, he immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat. Just as the panther is about to leap, the old German Shepherd exclaims loudly,

    "Boy, that was one delicious panther! I wonder, if there are any more around here?"

    Hearing this, the young panther halts his attack in mid-strike, a look of terror comes over him and he slinks away into the trees.

    "Whew!," says the panther, "That was close! That old German Shepherd nearly had me!"

    Meanwhile, a squirrel who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree, figures he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the panther. So, off he goes.

    The squirrel soon catches up with the panther, spills the beans and strikes a deal for himself with the panther.

    The young panther is furious at being made a fool of and says, "Here, squirrel, hop on my back and see what's going to happen to that conniving canine!"

    Now, the old German Shepherd sees the panther coming with the squirrel on his back and thinks, "What am I going to do now?," but instead of running, the dog sits down with his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn't seen them yet, and just when they get close enough to hear, the old German Shepherd says...

    "Where's that squirrel? I sent him off an hour ago to bring me another panther!"

    Moral of this story...

    Don't mess with the old dogs.... Age and skill will always overcome youth and treachery!

    Smile and brilliance only come with age and experience.


    Enjoy!

    Mike
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2014-09-27 21:06
    Sorry guys, but I'm locking this thread. It has devolved into jokes that touch on race and religion, and there's also some profanity in the posts -- none of which fit the forum guidelines.

    -Phil
  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2014-09-29 12:00
    Agreed, you beat me to it. I just removed another I found while following another reported post.
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