Wednesday, October 7, 2009

You might be an ENGINEER if...

  • The only jokes you receive are through e-mail(nothing wrong with this one).
  • At Christmas, it goes without saying that you will be the one to find the burnt-out bulb in the string.
  • Buying flowers for your girlfriend or spending the money to upgrade your RAM is a moral dilemma.
  • Everyone else on the Alaskan cruise is on deck peering at the scenery, and you are still on a personal tour of the engine room.
  • In college you thought Spring Break was a metal fatigue failure.
  • The salespeople at Circuit City can't answer any of your questions.
  • You are always late to meetings.
  • You are at an air show and know how fast the skydivers are falling.
  • You are next in line on death row in a French prison and you find that the guillotine is not working properly so you offer to fix it.
  • You bought your wife a new CD ROM for her birthday.
  • You can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie.
  • You can type 70 words a minute but can't read your own handwriting.
  • You can't write unless the paper has both horizontal and vertical lines.
  • You comment to your wife that her straight hair is nice and parallel.
  • You forgot to get a haircut ... for 6 months.
  • You go on the rides at Disneyland and sit backwards in the chairs to see how they do the special effects.
  • You have "Dilbert" comics displayed anywhere in your work area.
  • You have ever saved the power cord from a broken appliance.
  • You have more friends on the Internet than in real life.
  • You have never backed up your hard drive.
  • You have never bought any new underwear or socks for yourself since you got married.
  • You have used coat hangers and duct tape for something other than hanging coats and taping ducts.
  • You know what http:// stands for.
  • You look forward to Christmas only to put together the kids' toys.
  • You own one or more white short-sleeve dress shirts.
  • You see a good design and still have to change it.
  • You spent more on your calculator than on your wedding ring.
  • You still own a slide rule and you know how to work it.
  • You think a pocket protector is a fashion accessory.
  • You think that when people around you yawn, it's because they didn't get enough sleep.
  • You wear black socks with white tennis shoes (or vice versa).
  • You window shop at Radio Shack.
  • You're in the back seat of your car, she's looking wistfully at the moon, and you're trying to locate a geosynchronous satellite.
  • Your checkbook always balances.
  • Your laptop computer costs more than your car.
  • Your wife hasn't the foggiest idea what you do at work.
  • Your wrist watch has more computing power than a 300Mhz Pentium.
  • You've already calculated how much you make per second.
  • You've ever tried to repair a $5 radio.

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