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Engineering a Solution – Engineer Joke

A priest, a doctor and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers.

Engineer: What’s with these guys? We must have been waiting for 15 minutes!

Doctor: I don’t know, but I’ve never seen such ineptitude!

Priest: Hey, here comes the greens keeper. Let’s have a word with him. Hi George. Say, what’s with that group ahead of us? They’re rather slow, aren’t they?

George: Oh, yes, that’s a group of blind fire fighters. They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we always let them play for free anytime.

The group was silent for a moment.

Priest: That’s so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight.

Doctor: Good idea. And I’m going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy and see if there’s anything he can do for them.

Engineer: Why can’t these guys play at night?

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Engineer Joke – Engineering Debate

Three freshman engineering students were sitting around one day arguing about who might have designed the human body. The first one said, “It was been a mechanical engineer. The human body has all those levers and pivots and stuff – a mechanical engineer must have designed all that.”

The second one said, “No, it had to have been an electrical engineer. The complex way the nerves are wired up to the brain… must have been designed by an electrical engineer.”

Then the third one said, “No, it was a civil engineer. Who else would have run a waste water line through a recreational area?”

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Nine Questions – Engineering Joke

Two young engineers applied for a single position at a computer company. They both had the same qualifications. In order to determine which individual to hire, the applicants were asked to take a test by the head engineer.

Upon completion of the test, both men missed only one of the questions. The head engineer went to the first applicant and said, “Thank you for your interest, but we’ve decided to give the job to the other applicant.”

“And why would you be doing that? We both got 9 questions correct.”

“We have based our decision not on the correct answers, but on the question you missed.”

“And just how would one incorrect answer be better than the other?”

“Simple. Your fellow applicant put down on question #5, ‘I don’t know.’ You put down, ‘Neither do I.'”

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Security Guard Messes Up Story

Late Friday security guard Leon Wellell began to tell his co-worker Randy Stiller about his days as a retail salesperson. Only minutes later his story got lost on a critical detail- the name of some Microsoft software.

The story started well enough: “I used to sell high end audio, you know, home entertainment and all that. Then computers came in big so I switched to that,” Wellell began.

“What year was that?” asked Stiller.

At this point Wellell’s narrative started to stutter.

“Well, it was the year Microsoft came out with that one software that was so popular.”

“Windows?”

“No.”

“Excel?”

“No.”

“Word?”

“No.”

“Powerpoint?”

“No.”

“What was it?”

“I don’t know.”

The two guards looked at each other for a moment and then returned to their paperwork.

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Parking on P5

My office building has five levels of parking- P1 is the first level on down to P5. After work the other day I punched the “down” button and waited. Several people came up and each one also punched the already lighted button. I thought, “Hey, I’m glad you pushed that again. I couldn’t tell from the BRIGHTLY LIT button if it was already pressed.”

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