My dad was a nuclear physicist, and he liked to call the stuff he put on pizza "pi-meson cheese".
He also liked to call Coca-Cola "coal-tar derivative", after the *other* meaning of "coke".
An engineer dies and goes to hell. He's hot and miserable so he fixes the broken A/C. He unjams the moving walkway motor. He fixes the grainy TV and they get HD channels.
God decides to look down on Hell and notices that everyone is happy and enjoying umbrella drinks. He asks the Devil what's up?
Devil: things are great here since you sent us an engineer.
God: An engineer? That's a mistake. Send him upstairs immediately.
Devil: We want to keep our engineer. We like him.
God: If you don't send him up immediately, I'll sue.
Devil: Lol, where are you going to get a lawyer?
“And there are still those who swear that, to this very day, when the wind is still and the night is calm, you can hear him explaining how a manual transmission works to his children who have long stopped paying attention…”
I married an engineer and it’s not that I find these things attractive per se. It’s more that I do not have the ability to be them, and it turns out it’s useful for one of us to be that way.
Like I was house hunting with my partner and they noticed so many insanely important things that I would have overlooked, and I was like "hell yeah I'm into this"
My dad was just a simple mechanic/road construction worker/equipment operator because he technically didn't even graduate high school. But I married an engineer and dad & hubs are weirdly close 😅
Mine was a factory worker. Worked all night, slept all day. He was also in the Union. But he fed his wife and seven kids (my parents didn't believe in birth control).
As the youngest kid, I spent more time with my mom and older sisters. Didn't spend a lot with Dad but he sure loved his kids.
Ha ha. Mine was too. And actually I was just helping my mom clean out the house and found a bag with record player parts from radioshack from 1997 and also our old beta max.
My father and eldest sister are both engineers. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers as they both bleep bloop "Emotions? What are those?" to me to death as they are pragmatic, blunt, but loyal robots
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He also liked to call Coca-Cola "coal-tar derivative", after the *other* meaning of "coke".
God decides to look down on Hell and notices that everyone is happy and enjoying umbrella drinks. He asks the Devil what's up?
God: An engineer? That's a mistake. Send him upstairs immediately.
Devil: We want to keep our engineer. We like him.
God: If you don't send him up immediately, I'll sue.
Devil: Lol, where are you going to get a lawyer?
My MAGAt mother who I cut ties with on the other hand...
Engineer at hardware store: do you have a 2watt 4volt bulb?
Store employee: for what?
Engineer: no, 2.
Employee: 2 what?
Engineer: yes.
Engineer: do you have a 4volt bulb?
employee: 4volt?
engineer: For a lamp, vhat else?
No, for de parlour.
( we would add this sort of kicker for my Bubby to laugh at.)
4 candles
😁
Family friend: What’s H2O?
Me: Water!
FF: Right. Now, what’s H2O2?
Me: Oh, I know this! Hydrogen peroxide!
FF: Very good! Now, what’s H2O4?
Me: Uh… I don’t know.
FF: Drinking, cooking, and washing!
Me: 🤦🏻♀️
and then the linguist version where he doesn't die because the bartender can analyze a sentence to understand adverbs vs adjectives
🎶 Ohhhh, Johnny was a chemist, but now he is no more
‘Cause what he thought was H2O was H2SO4! 🎵
I always know. The name, the use, then an example of application he can relate to.
ha ha how could you dissect meaning, it has 7 letters, what would half an n even be, like an r and an i? mear iing? ha ha ha
tell me if this is just the engineers i know
My poor kids 😆
I hate my children.
Both me and my mom are religious, but she's more zealous in her faith than I am. Still, I get along with her better than other members in my family.
"Not in a way that you would understand."
As the youngest kid, I spent more time with my mom and older sisters. Didn't spend a lot with Dad but he sure loved his kids.
I am somewhat of a stereotypical engineer, and it seems my 5yo is on track to be a theater kid