engineering jokes

[MrMobodies]

The flush handle and taps.

Not many people bother to touch those when I see them do their business in there.

[Ed.Kloonk]

Linux engineers..

[MrMobodies]

The graphics in that reminds me a little of the bathrooms in an old game called Deus Ex.

[Ed.Kloonk]

The graphics in that reminds me a little of the bathrooms in an old game called Deus Ex.

Seem to recall it was SimCity

[BU508A]

[Ed.Kloonk]

[tautech]

Looks more like screwed drywall. 

[Nominal Animal]

You're gonna need a lot of spackle there, Ed.

[Ed.Kloonk]

You're gonna need a lot of spackle there, Ed.

Plumbers and electricians in my country employ a special trick when they accidentally make a hole in the wall for whatever reason. What they do is draw a circle around the hole with a pencil and then write the word 'patch' next to it. They come back a week later the hole has miraculously fixed itself.

[vk6zgo]

In the early nineties, the "sausages" sold from small carts at night in Helsinki were an engineering marvel: drunk people were attracted by their smell, even though it was decidedly horrible to sober people.  The after-taste the next morning was bad enough to get one to hurl.

In a footnote to Soul Music in 1994, Terry Pratchett wrote:

It wasn’t the taste. Plenty of hot dogs taste bad. But Dibbler had now actually managed to produce sausages that didn’t taste of anything. It was weird. No matter how much mustard, ketchup and pickle people put on them, they still didn’t taste of anything. Not even the midnight dogs they sell to drunks in Helsinki can quite manage that.

The burgers they sold from a van in Southampton, UK back in 1971, were right up there with both of those. Instead of using actual mince, they were cut off a sort of "sausage" of indeterminate material, chucked on the hotplate, & served with half cooked onions. They were just edible, if you had spent an enjoyable night at the "Red Lion", & were well lubricated!

[vk6zgo]

I might as well add to the Finn bashing festival:

It was back in the mid 1950s, when a young Finnish man decided to migrate to Western Australia, promising his Mum faithfully that he would write to her regularly.
Off he went, & settled in to a small town in the Hills outside Perth, renting a small house.

The life agreed with him, & he enthusiatically told his Mum when he next wrote, that he was doing well & living in "the little house" in Mt Helena.
As sons do, he forgot to write regularly, & after a long time without hearing from him, she became anxious, & prevailed on another young man, who was also going to WA, to look up her son & remind him to write.

This lad promised to do so, & being a nice guy, immediately upon arriving in Fremantle, set out to perform his task.
After travelling in two chuffing steam trains, he finally alighted at the tiny Mt Helena Railway Station.

He asked one of the Railway blokes "Where is the little house?" & that worthy pointed at the "Dunny" perched at the far end of the platform.
"Weird", thought our hero, but after all, it was a foreign country.

Approaching the structure, he spied a bloke emerging from the door, & asked, "Are you Finnish?"

"Yes,mate"

"Then why don't you write your Mother?"

(I was a kid in Mt Helena in the 1950s, so when I first heard this joke,  the image came to mind of the now defunct Railway Station)

[Ed.Kloonk]

"Are you Finnish?"

When Moses told me that joke, the guy was Irish and the chap's name was Nealy Dunn.

[basinstreetdesign]

I think I got this plumbing thing finally figured out.

[luudee]

Just saw this:


https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded-revolution/article/21158437/electronic-design-m2-nvme-writeonly-memory-ssd-arrives-on-april-1st

[MrMobodies]

I saw it for what it I thought it looked like.

Some noname module or stock photo:



https://www.google.com/search?hl=en-GB&tbs=sbi:AMhZZiu-WrFyzEV9NcT22uv2OMw6IwsqdqsJDnXMwJjTumumPz25zh8odlo8zZM03j5ET3gpwUv5guSgdjkOdDADwcMEm4IdJkXT2vdsKCykvklXF7k19jQUJg6qvZTeEoaeUCtdvAyd8vCybiYCZgXu_1ENgBEllO0vT3853bzo0yrt6abUTbkM6V0VvruWm4gvrwsiRZHDCA57xQd5OmggLW9HY7ChGK4JAHe-LPTNtXJu_1K0Mo2GC6gXDD0OQfQUQncHQR0LO3cJbZY9c2x9w_1rbSNIiuJQMv9nQBN5BOhouHAl2KrjSBzovqkgGawdoz2-FzOmA0_1KGmYsZ2ncdYh8O_1JLn5OOA&ei=mk41YqSyBuWy8gLAyK_4DQ&start=90&sa=N&ved=2ahUKEwik5_u0ntH2AhVlmVwKHUDkC98Q8tMDegQIARBK&biw=1920&bih=1101

https://shop8.helloyou.ru/category?name=m%202%20ssd%20%E7%AB%AF%E5%AD%90

[CatalinaWOW]

I've liked this joke since I first saw it in the 1970's.  I think it was Signetics started it all.

[coppice]

I've liked this joke since I first saw it in the 1970's.  I think it was Signetics started it all.

The famous 3 pin 4k WOM data sheet?

[NiHaoMike]

The famous 3 pin 4k WOM data sheet?

Even better, 2 pin infinite capacity WOMs are readily available. They're really useful to stop data bouncing off the ends of wires and colliding with new data that's being transmitted.

[dbctronic]

WOM technology is based on monodes, which are chained together to form a collander brigade. I wrote about them in 73 magazine long ago, but it appears only the first page of the article survives today.

[Nominal Animal]

WOM technology is based on monodes, which are chained together to form a collander brigade. I wrote about them in 73 magazine long ago, but it appears only the first page of the article survives today.

archive.org does have a copy (PDF with scanned pages; this is on pages 130, 132, 134, and 135).

[dbctronic]

Thank you!!! Didn't remember it being that long...

[TimFox]

My entry to the original Signetics contest featured "surreptitious entry of data", which was timely at the time.

[coppice]

My entry to the original Signetics contest featured "surreptitious entry of data", which was timely at the time.

Interesting. So you got surreptitious into a data sheet before there was any silicon designed for cryptography, and now there is lots of cryptographic silicon you never see that word in a modern data sheet.

[TimFox]

At the time, in the US, the scandal du jour was surreptitious entry by burglars employed by the US President into facilities of those on his "enemies list".

[rfclown]

The Signetics WOM was actually in one of their databooks. A teacher at college showed it to us.