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Pick-Up Lines to use on Engineering Chicks

I won't stop bugging you until I get the address of your home page.
You fascinate me more than the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.
Let's convert our potential energy to kinetic energy.
Wanna come back to my room and see my 166mhz Pentium?
How about you and I go back to my place and form a covalent bond?
You and I would add up better than a Riemann sum.
You're sweeter than glucose.
We're as compatible as two similar Power Macintoshes.
Wanna see the programs in my HP-48GX?
Your body has the nicest arc length I've ever seen.
You're hotter than a bunsen burner set to full power!
My love for you is like a concave up function because it is always increasing.

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Real Engineers consider themselves well dressed if their socks match.
Real Engineers buy their spouses a set of matched screwdrivers for their birthday.
Real engineers have a non-technical vocabulary of 800 words.
Real Engineers repair their own cameras, telephones, televisions, watches, and automatic transmissions.
Real Engineers say "It's 70 degrees Fahrenheit, 25 degrees Celsius, and 298 degrees Kelvin" and all you say is "Isn't it a nice day?"
Real Engineers wear badges so they don't forget who they are. Sometimes a note is attached saying "Don't offer me a ride today. I drove my own car".
Real Engineers' politics run towards acquiring a parking space with their name on it and an office with a window.
Real Engineers know the "ABC's of Infrared" from A to B.
Real Engineers know how to take the cover off of their computer, and are not afraid to do it.
Real Engineers' briefcases contain a Phillips screwdriver, a copy of "Quantum Physics", and a half of a peanut butter sandwich.
Real Engineers don't find the above at all funny.



The Dictionary: what engineers say and what they mean by it


Major Technological Breakthrough


Back to the drawing board.


Developed after years of intensive research


It was discovered by accident.


Project slightly behind original schedule due to unforeseen difficulties


We are working on something else.


The designs are well within allowable limits


We just made it, stretching a point or two.


Customer satisfaction is believed assured


We are so far behind schedule that the customer was happy to get anything at all.


Close project coordination


We should have asked someone else; or, let's spread the responsibility for this.


The design will be finalized in the next reporting period


We haven't started this job yet, but we've got to say something.


A number of different approaches are being tried


We don't know where we're going, but we're moving.


Test results were extremely gratifying


It works, and are we surprised!


Extensive effort is being applied on a fresh approach to the problem


We just hired three new guys; we'll let them kick it around for a while.


Preliminary operational tests are inconclusive


The darn thing blew up when we threw the switch.


The entire concept will have to be abandoned


The only guy who understood the thing quit.


Modifications are underway to correct certain minor difficulties


We threw the whole thing out and are starting from scratch.


Essentially complete.


Half done.


We predict...


We hope to God!


Drawing release is lagging.


Not a single drawing exists.


Risk is high, but acceptable.


100 to 1 odds, or with 10 times the budget and 10 times the manpower, we may
have a 50/50 chance.


Serious, but not insurmountables, problems.


It will take a miracle. God should be the program manager.


Not well defined.


Nobody's thought about it.


Requires further analysis and management attention.


Totally out of control.
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