DUring tutorial for History of military thoughts today, my lecturer from Australia told a very funny joke to demonstrate the point on how engineers are not the smartest people around. Well at least I thought it were hilarious. My kind of joke, and sorry to those engineers out there reading this...I'm not apologetic. Heeh
When a lecturer says "Good Morning" to a class from Arts, the students will reply by nodding their head.
When a lecturer says "Good Morning" to a class from Science, the students will echo back the same words.
When a lecturer says "Good Morning" to a class from Engineering....they'll write it down.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
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damn the aussie hehe
In the working world,
When someone says good morning to an engineer, the engineer nods his head in reply.
When someone says good morning to a business grad, the business grad nods his head in reply.
When someone says good morning to an arts grad, the arts grad replies to the engineern, "Good morning boss, coffee with milk?"
That is only if the engineer thinks small...(which further demonstrates my initial point that they are)
When a history graduate walks into a class his/her students will say "Good morning teacher!"
hurhurhur... ;p
I'm sorry 'anonymous', but you just don't make sense. If you're trying to say that engineers are 'higher up' than arts grads, your joke just isn't phrased correctly. (which illustrates the point that engineers just don't know how to work with language. they copy but they dunno how to apply. hurhurhur) I'm not against a good joke. but a bad joke. no no no no.
what your joke says is that is someone says good morning to an engineer or a businessman, they will only nod their heads in reply. but if someone says good morning to an arts grad, he will reply TO THE ENGINEER with 'good morning boss, coffee with milk?'
that's wrong in so many ways.
when you say the engineer and businessman nod their heads in reply, it is implied that they're busy. or they just couldn't care less. that's fine.
but whenever someone says good morning to an arts grad, there are 4 implications. (i) the arts grad doesn't reply to the someone and instead finds an engineer to reply to (ii) only engineers are polite enough to greet people good morning --> this also implies they're too free to go around greeting people, and there is also the conflicting view that if engineers are nice enough to greet people, why are they so mean to each other and only nod their heads in reply? (iii) that arts grads are the only nice people that reply to greetings or (iv) that the arts grad is the employee of the engineer (I guess this is what you are trying to mean). WTF is an 'engineern' anyway?
As you can see, due to the various obvious differences in implications from the statement, your punchline is fundamentally flawed. Incoherent and shows just how much of an 'engineern' you are. Wahoo! (Now that's a joke!)
If you're looking at stereotyping the jobs of an arts graduate, you might want to understand the situation first. Usually arts graduates aren't associated with working under engineers per se. So your observation is unfortunately wrong. Perhaps you might want to try illustrating the arts grad as working in the teaching line after graduation. Afterall that's where many of them go to.
No arts grad will actually work under an engineer in a plant or construction industries. It's not within their scope. Perhaps you might want to come up with a joke involving an arts grad studying all the way to get his/her degree only to be assigned to primary school and having to clean her student's backside coz he/she just shat in class. That'll be an implication of doing all the studying just to land in a position of doing what he/she didn't need all that education for. To clean up children's shit.
If you do wanna change 'someone' to 'engineer' in the joke, it'll come off like this:
When an engineer says good morning to another engineer, the other engineer nods his head in reply
--> implication, either busy or rude. that's fine.
When an engineer says good morning to a businessman, the businessman nods his head in reply
--> implication, either busy, or the engineer very irritating he don't want to talk to him.
Then you can say:
When an engineer says good morning to an arts grad, the arts grad replies: Good morning boss, coffee with milk?
--> only then can you draw the inference that he's an employee.
Might I add a line to the joke in an attempt to make it funny. Instead of 'someone' I'll be 'specific' here.
When an engineer says good morning to a lawyer, the lawyer (probably from WongP) replies to the engineer, "How? Got new case for me ah?"
(PS: You might want to know that many of the IMF delegates are arts grads. Whilst... sad to say the engineers were lacking at the meetings. I wonder why. Busy dreaming about ordering arts grads around I suppose)
For your information, WongP is where all the engineers go when they get sued. Gday~
whao haha hello i am anonymous no.1 damn the aussie hehe... hello anonymous no.2, cloud and 우찌유....by the way...i agree engineer thinks diffently...aiyah just a joke le why seems like ppl here are having an argument... cloud u are getting more pretty =)
should be getting prettier heehe
Dear 우찌유,
Facts and figures are what we ( people from engineering, science, business, law) deal with. Not bullshit. So do pardon me not having read through your lengthy rant.
On a side note, you'll be well placed to address me as BOSS in future conversations. That is, if you want to keep your job as my secretary.
As such, I will have to ignore messages from you that are not preceded with a "good morning boss".
Now be on your way to fetch that coffee I want.
Lol...tsk tsk tsk...it's suppose to be a friendly banter. Please don't quarrel on my blog...it's unbecoming. haha. And thanks for anonymous' one's compliments, though I can't thank you in person. Geez I don't even know who's reading my blog!!! *Faints*
ANyway correcting the preceding comment, 우찌유 is from law so he won't be anyone's secretary or fetch ppl's coffee.
Dear anon,
You just proved me right.
Ha. Ha. Ha.
Facts and figures indeed.
I would feel insulted if not for you being an engineer.
Take care now! :)
Hello im annoymous no.1 here...there is a lawyer...there is an engineer... whatever and whoever he or she is... each has very promising future. Its always interesting to hear jokes...i have jokes on lawyers too... haa anyway don't quarrel on this pretty cloud's blog... =)
Aiyah... All of you. Grow up. *rolls eyes*
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