It just keeps getting better

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Rich Grise

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OK, so it's Friday night, I'm sitting here reading jokes; I've already
posted the base URL of this "Infrequently Asked Questions," But this one
is just too good to wait until somebody stumbles on it:
http://ifaq.wap.org/science/engineersexplained.html

Are _you_ an Engineer?

Cheers!
Rich
 
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 05:00:38 GMT, in sci.electronics.design Rich Grise
<rich@example.net> wrote:

OK, so it's Friday night, I'm sitting here reading jokes; I've already
posted the base URL of this "Infrequently Asked Questions," But this one
is just too good to wait until somebody stumbles on it:
http://ifaq.wap.org/science/engineersexplained.html

Are _you_ an Engineer?

Cheers!
Rich
i prefer
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http://ifaq.wap.org/science/startrekneverhappen.html


martin

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
 
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:15:26 +0100, martin griffith
<martingriffith@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

But this one
is just too good to wait until somebody stumbles on it:
http://ifaq.wap.org/science/engineersexplained.html
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That's total BS.

The Corvair was a decent car. It's why I'll never vote for Nader.
 
I read in sci.electronics.design that martin griffith
<martingriffith@yahoo.co.uk> wrote (in <3a48s0lil22idgn6nsfv6ud23aq9jel2
4b@4ax.com>) about 'It just keeps getting better', on Sat, 18 Dec 2004:
i prefer
http://ifaq.wap.org/science/startrekneverhappen.html
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I like no. 5. Senna pods, anyone? (;-)
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk
 
http://ifaq.wap.org/science/engineersexplained.html
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I've read this before and I'm pretty sure it was in one of Scott Adams'
books.
 
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 05:00:38 GMT, Rich Grise <rich@example.net> wrote:

OK, so it's Friday night, I'm sitting here reading jokes; I've already
posted the base URL of this "Infrequently Asked Questions," But this one
is just too good to wait until somebody stumbles on it:
http://ifaq.wap.org/science/engineersexplained.html
Click to expand...
Sounds like a perfect description of Kevin. ;->
--

"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.
 
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 05:00:38 GMT, Rich Grise <rich@example.net> wrote:

OK, so it's Friday night, I'm sitting here reading jokes; I've already
posted the base URL of this "Infrequently Asked Questions," But this one
is just too good to wait until somebody stumbles on it:
http://ifaq.wap.org/science/engineersexplained.html

Are _you_ an Engineer?

Cheers!
Rich
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As someone said, women have absolutely no use for engineeers except to
marry them.

John
 
martin griffith wrote:
Rich Grise wrote:

http://ifaq.wap.org/science/engineersexplained.html

http://ifaq.wap.org/science/startrekneverhappen.html
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scijokes/2.html
 
"Guy Macon" <_see.web.page_@_www.guymacon.com_> wrote

http://ifaq.wap.org/science/engineersexplained.html
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So where is: http://ifaq.wap.org/engineering/scientistsexplained.html ?

Though the adage does go: 'Engineers do. Scientists talk.'

--
Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio
Consulting Engineer: Electronics; Informatics; Photonics.
Remove spaces etc. to reply: n o lindan at net com dot com
psst.. want to buy an f-stop timer? nolindan.com/da/fstop/
 
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:09:27 +0000, Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote:

http://ifaq.wap.org/science/engineersexplained.html

I've read this before and I'm pretty sure it was in one of Scott Adams'
books.
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If you're in a room with two terminals, and Scott Adams is at the other
end of one and Dave Barry is at the other end of the other one, would you
be able to tell the difference? ;-)

Cheers!
Rich
 
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:20:16 +0000, Guy Macon wrote:

martin griffith wrote:

Rich Grise wrote:

http://ifaq.wap.org/science/engineersexplained.html

http://ifaq.wap.org/science/startrekneverhappen.html

http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scijokes/2.html
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Thanks! This one gets bookmarked too. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich
 
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:53:36 +0000, John Woodgate wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that martin griffith
martingriffith@yahoo.co.uk> wrote (in <3a48s0lil22idgn6nsfv6ud23aq9jel2
4b@4ax.com>) about 'It just keeps getting better', on Sat, 18 Dec 2004:
i prefer
http://ifaq.wap.org/science/startrekneverhappen.html

I like no. 5. Senna pods, anyone? (;-)
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I don't know. What's a "Senna pod"?

Thanks,
Rich
 
Rich Grise wrote:

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:53:31 +0000, xray wrote:


On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:15:26 +0100, martin griffith
martingriffith@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:


But this one

is just too good to wait until somebody stumbles on it:
http://ifaq.wap.org/science/engineersexplained.html


That's total BS.

The Corvair was a decent car. It's why I'll never vote for Nader.


I've never driven a Corvair, but from what I've heard, the only real
problem with them was when they crash. I've never ever based a car
purchase on what happens when I crash it. :)

http://richgrise.tripod.com/images/Safe-Car.gif

Thanks!
Rich


The problem with the Corvair was that when you went around a corner too
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fast it crashed.

Let's try that again: when you went around a corner _too fast_ it
crashed. The only special part is that when it let go it did so
suddenly, and it went into the tulle brush backwards, not forwards (i.e.
"oversteer"). American cars at the time started making noises and
refusing to steer at about 2/3 the speed that a Corvair would crash, and
went into the tulle brush forwards (i.e. "understeer").

But it did make Nader's career for him.

--

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com
 
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 03:19:24 +0000, Dbowey wrote:

In 1973 my older son bought a like-new Corvair; a great looking car. He and
some friends were returning home on a road alongside a river, when one of the
tires fell into a pothole, which pitched the car into the river. Everyone was
ok with only minor bumps. The driver of the car following them said the car
bounced up and the rear wheel both tucked under - there was no axle restraint
to prevent this. I don't recall the year of the car, but later I heard the
Corvairs were fitted with straps around the axles to prevent the problem.
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What kind of idiot drives so fast that a pothole makes the car leave the
ground, and bounce high enough for the axles to fold up?

You can't blame the car for the driver's negligence.

Thanks,
Rich
 
Guy Macon wrote:


http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scijokes/2.html
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I rather liked:

"Truth decays into beauty, while beauty soon becomes merely
charm. Charm ends up as strangeness, and even that doesn't
last, but up and down are forever."

Sounds like my marriage. ;>)

Mark L. Fergerson
 
In article <1e68s09ahsaqb2nfitoh8pitvcl5dmbfua@4ax.com>,
xray <notreally@hotmail.invalid> wrote:
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:15:26 +0100, martin griffith
martingriffith@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

But this one
is just too good to wait until somebody stumbles on it:
http://ifaq.wap.org/science/engineersexplained.html


That's total BS.

The Corvair was a decent car. It's why I'll never vote for Nader.
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Having owned one -- I can assure you that it was badly designed.
However it did fulfull part of the engineer's need: having something
that always needed fixing.

-frank
--
 
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