Engineering proverbs
Engineering proverbs
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Let us learn english through english proverbs....
The human population is divided into two groups:
those who move parts of the earth's surface
from one place on the earth's surface to another;
and those who tell them how to do it.
“Bertrand Russel”
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old field guy
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If it looks right it'll fly right.
Can't fall, nothing to stop it.
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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One that bugs that heck out of my wife when she frets how close my car gets to other objects, "An inch is as good as a mile."
Matt
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
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Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
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"Electricity flowing through a wire is just like water flowing through a hose, except that when you put your lips up to the end of the hose, you are unlikely to receive the same refreshing experience."
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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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"It may be s#!t to you, but it's bread and butter to me."
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One has to watch out for engineers - they begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.
- Marcel Pagnol
Critiques des Critiques
Tell me, Mr Hoover, what are your interests?
Madam, I am an Engineer
Really? I took you for a gentleman.
- Herbert Hoover
Conversation on making the acquaintance of a lady on a steamship - apparently comment meant as a compliment
An engineer is someone who is good with figures, but doesn't have the personality of an accountant.
- An Arts graduate's view of engineers
An engineer is someone who washes his hands before going to the toilet.
- Anon
Boring - see Civil Engineers.
- UK Yellow Pages
For 'tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petar; and't shall go hard
But I will delve one yard below their mines
And blow them at the moon.
- William Shakespeare
Hamlet Act 3, Scene 4
Phases of a Project:
1 -- Exultation
2 -- Disenchantment
3 -- Search for the Guilty
4 -- Punishment of the Innocent
5 -- Praise for the Uninvolved
- Anon
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The angle of the dangle is directly proportional to the thrust of the bust.
If it's too good to be true, it's what sales just sold the customer and said they could have in two weeks.
Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
CAD Administrator
SW '07 SP2.0, Dell M90, Intel 2 Duo Core, 2GB RAM, nVidia 2500M
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"Measure twice. Cut Once."
M
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Dr Michael F Platten
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Psalm to an Engineer's Sweetheart
Verily, I say unto ye,
marry not an engineer.
For an engineer is a strange being
and possessed of many evils.
Yea, he speaketh always in parables
which he calleth formulae.
He wieldeth a big stick
which he calleth a slide rule.
And he hath only one bible,
a handbook.
He thinketh only of strains and stresses,
and without end of thermodynamics.
He showeth always a serious aspect
and seemeth not to know how to smile.
He picketh his seat in a car by the springs thereof
and not by the damsels.
Neither does he know a waterfall
except by its horsepower,
Nor a sunset
except that he must turn on the light,
Nor a damsel
except by her weight.
Always he carrieth his books with him,
and he entertaineth his sweetheart with steam tables.
Verily, though his damsel expecteth chocolates when he calleth,
She openeth the package to discover samples of iron ore.
Yea, he holdeth her hand
but to measure the friction thereof,
and kisseth her
only to test the viscosity of her lips,
for in his eyes shineth a far away look
that is neither love nor longing,
but a vain attempt to recall formulae.
Even as a boy, he pulleth a girl's hair
but to test its elasticity.
But as a man,
he deviseth different devices.
For he counteth the vibrations of her heartstrings
And seeketh ever to pursue his scientific investigations.
Even his own heart flutterings
he counteth as a measure of fluctuation.
And his marriage is but a
simultaneous equation involving two unknowns.
And yielding diverse results.
Verily, I say unto ye,
do not marry an engineer.
If you "heard" it on the internet, it's guilty until proven innocent. - DCS
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Swearingen, is there an adaptation of this poem to women-engineers ?
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"Don't waste your time making plans idiotproof. They'll always make a better idiot."
The binary one is great OFG.
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'Design is the art of showing people your ideas. Marketing is art of selling people your ideas. Accountancy is the art of getting what you are owed. HR is the obstacle to all three.' (My Dad)
'Remember, when you are up to your ears in s**t, don't shout.' (A poster I saw years ago)
Kevin
“It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class." ~Author Unknown
"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three." ~Author Unknown
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One lady showed me once a poem-letter in The Independent, June 1990:
"Heaven is where / the police are British / the cooks are French / the engineers are German / the administrators are Swiss / and the lovers are Italian.
Hell is where / the police are German / the cooks are British / the engineers are Italian / the administrators are French / and the lovers are Swiss."
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f-d
A coupla months in the laboratory can save a coupla hours in the library - Westheimer's Discovery
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure – Segal's Law
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. - John Tudor
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand - Bertrand Russell
After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted - De la Lastra's Corollary
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment – Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever - Chinese Proverb
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work - Thomas Edison
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will. - Paul Harvey
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. - Laurence J. Peter
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. - William Safire
Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you - Kin Hubbard
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. - Bill Vaughan
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. - Vince Lombardi
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth - Niels Bohr
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both. - Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
¡papá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!
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by Dr. James D. Livingston
Free electrons of course have ability
To move to and fro with agility
But despite being swift
If there's no net drift
It's a clear exercise in futility
Yet all of this random activity
Gives a metal a special proclivity
To amperes provide
When volts are applied
With a property called conductivity
So a fellow named Ohm with felicity
Dreamed up a law of great simplicity
V equals I R
Is what made Ohm a star
It's the basic law of electricity
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After the 16 screws have been unscrewed, the access cover removed, the gasket replaced and the access cover re-secured, it will be found that one of the screws is missing.
There are 3 dilemmas in a crisis,
4 crises in a disaster,
and 3 disasters in a fiasco.
The five easiest things in the world:
5th to deny one's fears
4th to mistake one's ignorance for wisdom
3rd to fly away on one's wings
2nd to run when lost and frightened
1st
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... until you trouble yourself to remove the dirt from them."
The Army Philosophy,
according to my friend PDZ.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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"Don't force it, use a bigger hammer."
JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
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old field guy
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Mark Hutton
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Dr Michael F Platten
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The King and the Toaster
~or~
Hardware Versus Software
Once upon a time, in an absolute monarchy not far from here, a king summoned two of his advisors for a test. He showed them both a shiny metal box with two slots in the top, a control knob, and a lever. "What do you think this is?"
One advisor, an electrical engineer, answered first. "It is a toaster."
The king asked, "How would you design an embedded computer for it?"
The engineer replied, "Using a four-bit microcontroller, I would write a simple program that reads the darkness knob and quantizes its position to one of 16 shades of darkness, from snow white to coal black. The program would use that darkness level as the index to a 16-element table of initial timer values. Then it would turn on the heating elements and start the timer with the initial value selected from the table. At the end of the time delay, it would turn off the heat and pop up the toast. Wait 'til next week, and I'll show you a working prototype."
The second advisor, a computer scientist, immediately recognized the danger of such short-sighted thinking. He said, "Toasters don't just turn bread into toast, they are also used to warm frozen waffles. What you see before you is really a breakfast food cooker. As the subjects of your kingdom become more sophisticated, they will demand more capabilities. They will need a breakfast food cooker that can also cook sausage, fry bacon, and make scrambled eggs. A toaster that only makes toast will soon be obsolete. If we don't look to the future, we will have to completely redesign the toaster in just a few years.
"With this in mind, we can formulate a more intelligent solution to the problem. First, create a class of breakfast foods. Specialize this class into subclasses: grains, pork, and poultry. The specialization process should be repeated with grains divided into toast, muffins, pancakes, and waffles; pork divided into sausage, links, and bacon; and poultry divided into scrambled eggs, hard-boiled eggs, poached eggs, fried eggs, and various omelet classes.
"The ham-and-cheese omelet class is worth special attention because it must inherit characteristics from the pork, dairy, and poultry classes. Thus, we see that the problem cannot be properly solved without multiple inheritance. At run time, the program must create the proper object and send a message to the object that says, 'Cook yourself.' The semantics of this message depend, of course, on the kind of object, so they have a different meaning to a piece of toast than to scrambled eggs.
"Reviewing the process so far, we see that the analysis phase has revealed that the primary requirement is to cook any kind of breakfast food. In the design phase, we have discovered some derived requirements. Specifically, we need an object-oriented language with multiple inheritance. Of course, users don't want the eggs to get cold while the bacon is frying, so concurrent processing is required, too.
"We must not forget the user interface. The lever that lowers the food lacks versatility, and the darkness knob is confusing. Would-be diners won't buy the product unless it has a user-friendly, graphical interface. When the breakfast cooker is plugged in, users should see a cowboy boot on the screen. Users click on it, and the message 'Booting UNIX v.8.3' appears on the screen. (UNIX 8.3 should be out by the time the product gets to the market.) Users can pull down a menu and click on the foods they want to cook.
"Having made the wise decision of specifying the software first in the design phase, all that remains is to pick an adequate hardware platform for the implementation phase. An Intel 80586 with 16MB of memory, a 1.2GB hard disk, and a SuperVGA monitor should be sufficient. If you select a multitasking, object oriented language that supports multiple inheritance and has a built-in GUI, writing the program will be a snap. (Imagine the difficulty we would have had if we had foolishly allowed a hardware-first design strategy to lock us into a four-bit microcontroller)."
The king wisely had the computer scientist beheaded, and the kingdom lived happily ever after.
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"After the 16 screws have been unscrewed, the access cover removed, the gasket replaced and the access cover re-secured, it will be found that one of the screws is missing."
...the missing screw will later show up lodged in the pump impeller downstream from the access cover. Not in the lower-cost charge pump impeller, but, having passed through that one, it will be found in the more expensive high-pressure pump beyond.
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Note seen on drawing - HTFFSPTM.
Hammer to fit, file smooth, paint to match.
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I like this oldfieldguy!
A star for you
"There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't"
But I would say that "there are 100 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, those who don’t want to understand, those who have other primary priorities and those who don’t have teachers to teach them"
luismarques
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1. There comes a time in every project where someone should shoot the engineer and build it.
2. The engineer's thinking: If a product is working perfectly, that doesn't mean it is perfect, it means it doesn't have enough features.
3. An electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, structural engineer and a computer scientist were riding in a car when it breaks down. The electrical engineer mentions that a fuse must have blown and starts looking for the problem. The mechanical says it's combustion or fuel related and starts checking under the hood while the structural thinks it's a motor mount that broke. The computer scientist suggests that they all get out, shut the doors and hood, wait a sec, then get back in and try and restart it...
If you "heard" it on the internet, it's guilty until proven innocent. - DCS
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An expensive power transistor, protected by a fast acting fuse, will sacrifice itself to prolong the life of the fuse.
Every picofarad has a nanohenry all its own.
78% of all statistics are made up.
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Five cannibals get appointed as engineers in a defense company. During the welcoming ceremony the boss says, "You're all part of our team now. You can earn good money here, and you can go to the cafeteria for something to eat. So please don't trouble any of the other employees." The cannibals promised.
Four weeks later the boss returns and says, "You're all working very hard, and I'm very satisfied with all of you. However, one of our janitors has disappeared. Do any of you know what happened to him?"
The cannibals all shake their heads no.
After the boss has left, the leader of the cannibals says to the others, "Which of you idiots ate the janitor?"
A hand raises hesitantly, to which the leader of the cannibals replies, "You fool! For four weeks we've been eating Team Leaders, Supervisors and Project Managers and no one noticed anything, and you have to go and eat the janitor!"
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jimkirk, once upon a time I had a toaster that somehow (optical sensor?) was supposed to give the desired toasting level w/o burning. Some trouble getting it to heat dark rye or pumpernickel breads. Had to manually adust it to darkest and remember to change before toasting lighter bread. Easier to use the cheapo kind.
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http://store.theonion.com/morestuff-c-19.html
(don't red flag me if you buy one!)
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Meanwhile the highschool dropout they picked up hitching rides is already halfway back with the full petrol can.
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two Cats on a roof which one falls off first?
The one with the smallest Mu!
You can probably find a better version of this online, but you'll get the jist.
A man is walking near a lake when he come open a frog who calls out to him "Stop Sir please" The man stops and picks up the frog. the frog continues
"Sir I am really a beautiful princess, and evil witch put a curse on me and turned me into this frog, one kiss will transform me back into the beauty I am. Please kiss me and I will be eternally greatful"
The man looks at the frog, smiles, puts it in his pocket and carries on.
A few days later the frog say, "Look please, I really am a beautiful princes, if you kiss me I will be yours for a week, I will pleasure you, cook for you, clean for you, anything you desire, please kiss me"
The man looks at the frog and puts it back in its pocket.
A week later he takes the frog out again.
"Please Sir, I will be yours for eternity, I will submit to your every sexual desire, I will look after you care for you, anything I will be forever faithful and graceous to you".
The man looks at the frog and says
"Look mate, I'm an engineer, I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog - now that's cool!
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Signed
The joke police.
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1. All pipes are to be made of a long hole, surrounded by metal or plastic centred on the hole.
2. All pipes are to be hollow throughout the entire length - do not use holes of different length than the pipe.
3. The I.D. (inside diameter) of all pipes must not exceed the O.D. (outside diameter) - otherwise the hole will be on the outside.
4. All pipes are to be supplied with nothing in the hole so that water, steam or other stuff can be put inside at a later date.
5. All pipes should be supplied without rust - this can be more readily applied at the job site. N.B. Some Vendors are now able to supply pre-rusted pipe. If available in your area, this product is recommended as it will save a lot of time on the job site.
6. All pipe over 500ft (153m) in length should have the words "long pipe" clearly painted on each end, so the Contractor will know it is a long pipe.
7. Pipe over 2 miles (3.2km) in length must have the words "long pipe" painted in the middle, so the Contractor will not have to walk the entire length of the pipe to determine whether or not it is a long pipe.
8. All pipe over 6" (152mm) in diameter must have the words "large pipe" painted on it, so the Contractor will not mistake it for small pipe.
9. Flanges must be used on all pipes. Flanges must have holes for bolts quite separate from the big hole in the middle.
10. When ordering 90 degrees, 45 degrees or 30 degrees elbow, be sure to specify right hand or left hand; otherwise you will end up going the wrong way.
11. be sure to specify to your vendor whether you want level, uphill or downhill pipe. If you use downhill pipe for going uphill, the water will flow the wrong way.
12. All couplings should have either right hand or left hand thread, but do not mix the threads - otherwise, as the coupling is being screwed on one pipe, it is unscrewed from the other.
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Rule 1: The boss is ALWAYS right
Rule 2: If the boss is wrong, see Rule 1
Kevin
“It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class." ~Author Unknown
"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three." ~Author Unknown
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KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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The Pessimist: The Glass is half empty.
The Engineer: The Glass is twice a big as it needs to be.
Rerig
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star for you apsix.
I've just been tasked with being our primary drawing checker and it's one I'm struggling with at the moment.
When talking about the delegation of undesirable work from management:
"Proverbial only flows down hill, if you try pushing it back up it will back up for a while and when it finally comes down you'll be drowning in it."
Or something like that.
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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What the average person does for $2, the engineer should be able to do for $1.
*insert appropriate currency for your world location. :)
--
Erik
MO P.E.
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Apologies to Edmund Burke (if he really said it).
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When in doubt
Make it stout
Out of things
You know about
Bill
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"Balloonist"
a man is flying in a hot air balloon and realises he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts, "Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?"
The man below says, "Yes, you're in a hot air balloon, hovering 30 metres above this field."
"You must be an engineer", says the balloonist.
"I am", replies the man. "How did you know?"
"Well", says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but it's of no use to anyone."
To which the man below says. "You must be in management."
"I am", replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?"
"Well", says the man, "you don't know where you are, or where you're going but you expect me to be able to help. You're in the same position you were before we met, but now it's my fault."
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The engineer should have observed that the manager attained his position and remains there by the generation of hot air.
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"What the average person does for $2, the engineer should be able to do for $1"
I've also heard that an engineer is a person who will spend 10 dollars and 5 hours to fix a 5 dollar transistor radio.
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Thanks WGJ,
I had a former boss who used to say the first two lines, but could never remember the rest. Now I know!
"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance!"
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For you....anything.
This was pasted up on the wall when I did fuel system stuff.
Since some fuel or another will eat / degrade any of the (cheap) materials the car makers like to use, it was always the way to go.
Bill
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Theodore von Kármán: Scientists study the world as it is; engineers create the world that has never been.
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One of my favorites relating usually to management is:-
"Its the same circus they just move the clowns around"
desertfox
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JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
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I agree with you desertfox, in other words:
"The excrement is the same one, what changes are the flies"
luis
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The second half uses the other 90%..."
"Timing is Everything"
Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
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it take an engineer to build a barn that will barely stand.
Hydrae
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One I heard from a German engineer:
"Cut it twice, and it's still too short"
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Mikey
Mike McCann
McCann Engineering
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People that turn over stones are likely to drop them on their own feet.
.......or something like that anyway. Mao Tse Tung.
Bill
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A problem postponed is a problem half solved.
Something will happen. It always does.
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says the chief to his new employer.
´But sir, I come from the university´.
´I’m sorry son, that is a different matter.
Give me the broom, I first show you how to do it´.
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I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat - Michael McShane
f-d
¡papá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!
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They do not know that the dream
Is a constant of life
As concrete and defined
As anything else,
As this grey rock
Where I sit and rest,
As this tame river
In a calm fear,
As these high pines
Which agitate in golden green,
As these birds that scream
In blue inebriety.
They do not know that the dream
Is wine, foam, and yeast,
Cheerful thirsty animal,
With sharp-pointed snout,
That digs through everything
In an everlasting movement.
They do not know that the dream
Is a painting, colour, and brush,
Base, shaft, steeple,
Ogive arc, vitral,
Cathedral pinnacle,
Counterpoint, symphony,
Greek mask, magic,
An alchemist retort,
A map of a distant world,
Rose of winds, Infant,
Portuguese caravel,
Good Hope Cape,
Gold, cinnamon, ivory,
Floret of a swordsman,
Embroidery frame, step of dance,
Columbine and Harlequin,
Balloon aerostat,
Lightning-rod, locomotive,
Boat of festive stem,
Melting furnace, power generator,
Atom division, radar,
Ultrasound, television,
Rocket landing
In the lunar surface.
They do not know, nor do they dream,
That the dream commands life.
That whenever a man dreams
The world jumps and advances
As a coloured ball
In the hands of a child
Free translation of “pedra filosofal”
(From Antonio Gedeão “in perpetual movement 1956”, a Portuguese poet and chemistry teacher, his real name was Rómulo de Carvalho)
luismarques
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1. Calculate the smallest limb diameter on a persimmon tree that will support a 10 pound possum.
2. Which of the following cars will rust out the quickest when placed on blocks in your front yard? a) '66 Ford Fairlane b) '69 Chevrolet Chevelle c) '64 Pontiac GTO
3. If your uncle builds a still that operates at a capacity of 20 gallons of shine per hour, how many car radiators are necessary to condense the product?
4. A pulpwood cutter has chain saw that operates at 2700 rpm. The density of the pine trees in a plot to be harvested is 470 per acre. The lot is 2.3 acres in size. The average tree diameter is 14 inches. How many Budweiser Tall-Boys will it take to cut the trees?
5. If every old refrigerator in the state vented a charge of R-12 simultaneously, what would be the decrease in the ozone layer?
6. A front porch is constructed of 2x8 pine on 24-inch centers with a field rock foundation. The span is 8 feet and the porch length is 16 feet. The porch floor is 1 inch rough sawn pine. When the porch collapses, how many hound dogs will be killed?
7. A man owns a house and 3.7 acres of land in a hollow with an average slope of 15%. The man has 5 children. Can each of the children place a mobile home on the man's land?
8. A 2-ton pulpwood truck is overloaded and proceeding down a steep grade on a secondary road at 45 mph. The brakes fail. Given the average traffic loading of secondary roads, how many people will swerve to avoid the truck before it crashes at the bottom of the mountain? For extra credit, how many of the vehicles that swerved will have mufflers and uncracked windshields?
9. A Coal Mine operates a NFPA Class 1, Division 2 Hazardous Area. The mine employs 120 miners per shift. A gas warning is issued at the beginning of 3rd shift. How many cartons of unfiltered Camels will be smoked during the shift?
10. How many generations will it take before cattle develop two legs shorter than the others because of grazing along a mountainside?
Mike McCann
McCann Engineering