Bill
> Here's some humor that should offend just about everybody!!
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> The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?"
> The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?
> The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?"
> The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with
> that?"
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> Engineers think that equations approximate the real world.
> Scientists think that the real world approximates equations.
> Mathematicians are unable to make the connection.
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> Three engineering students were gathered together discussing the
> possible designers of the human body.
> One said, "It was a mechanical engineer. Just look at all the
> joints".
> Another said, "No, it was an electrical engineer. The nervous
> system has many thousands of electrical connections".
> The last said, "Actually it was a civil engineer. Who else would
> run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area"?
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> An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are shown a pasture
> with a herd of sheep, and told to put them inside the smallest
> possible amount of fence.
>
> The engineer is first. He herds the sheep into a circle and then
> puts the fence around them, declaring, "A circle will use the least
> fence for a given area, so this is the best solution."
>
> The physicist is next. She creates a circular fence of infinite radius
> around the sheep, and then draws the fence tight around the herd,
> declaring, "This will give the smallest circular fence around the herd."
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> The mathematician is last. After giving the problem a little thought,
> he puts a small fence around himself and then declares, "I define
> myself to be on the outside!"
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> In some foreign country a priest, a lawyer and an engineer are about
> to be guillotined. The priest puts his head on the block, they pull
> the rope and nothing happens -- he declares that he's been saved by
> divine intervention so he's let go.
>
> The lawyer is put on the block, and again the rope >doesn't release
> the blade, he claims he can't be executed twice for the same crime he
> is set free too.
>
> They grab the engineer and shove his head into the guillotine, he
> looks up at the release mechanism and says,
> "Wait a minute, I see your problem......"
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