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If You Were a Tree...

Posted August 31, 2009 7:40 AM

Journalist Barbara Walters was lampooned for asking the question of famous folks. Yet the concept behind the query seems fair. What symbol is most apt to represent a person, or even a category of people? Is there a symbol that fits mechanical engineers? Mechanical Engineering Magazine ran a poll asking for ideas. The response ranged widely, rather than zeroing in on a consensus. Even so, popular icons for M.E.'s were emerging: a wheel, an engine, a robot, meshing gears, and hex nut and bolt. What icon fits you? Are you a hex nut, or the friendly robot?

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Kilowatt0 Guru Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Anyplace over 100 Deg F Posts: 543 Good Answers: 21	#1 Re: If You Were a Tree... 08/31/2009 11:33 AM
	I'm definitely a 'nutter! __________________ I could never join a club which would have me as a member - Groucho Marx
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sue Power-User Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Near Delaware Water Gap Posts: 367 Good Answers: 8	#2 Re: If You Were a Tree... 08/31/2009 11:59 AM
	I have a fondness for the Möbius strip.

Del the cat Guru Join Date: May 2007 Location: Harlow England Posts: 10332 Good Answers: 207	#3 In reply to #2 Re: If You Were a Tree... 08/31/2009 3:04 PM
	A mathemetician confided That a Möbius strip is one sided, And you get quite a laugh When you cut it in half, For it stays in one piece when divided! Del __________________ health warning: These posts may contain traces of nut.

sue Power-User Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Near Delaware Water Gap Posts: 367 Good Answers: 8	#4 In reply to #3 Re: If You Were a Tree... 08/31/2009 3:27 PM
	That's beautiful! And now for the musical Möbius and the literary or architectural Möbius They're everywhere.
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Transcendian Guru Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Transcendia Posts: 1746 Good Answers: 30	#5 Re: If You Were a Tree... 08/31/2009 6:22 PM
	As a robot I flirt with a desirable turtle. And feed flowers to the reptile I envy and love. Armored and slow, sometimes swimming they go. I'd watch them all day, and have nothing to say. __________________ You don't get wise because you got old, you get old because you were wise.

tcmtech Guru Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: South of Minot North Dakota Posts: 524 Good Answers: 47	#6 Re: If You Were a Tree... 08/31/2009 8:47 PM
	I consider myself to be turning into that single lone tree that stands in the middle of a pasture all busted up and gnarled from fighting with the world I exist in. I may not look majestic or grand but I have already sunk my roots in far deeper than most others ever can or will! Rip and tare at me all you want and I will just grow back out of spite, because I can! __________________ The best hire the best. The second best hire the third best. -- tcmtech

Del the cat Guru Join Date: May 2007 Location: Harlow England Posts: 10332 Good Answers: 207	#7 Re: If You Were a Tree... 09/01/2009 2:43 AM
	If I was a great big tree, Nothin' much would bother me, Except perhaps that flapping Crow... Or Del might turn me to a Bow. Del __________________ health warning: These posts may contain traces of nut.

Hooker Power-User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Bridgewater, Va. Posts: 381 Good Answers: 12	#8 Re: If You Were a Tree... 09/01/2009 9:53 AM
	A loose screw... Hooker

silvCrow Power-User Join Date: May 2007 Location: Aloha or Posts: 257 Good Answers: 5	#9 Re: If You Were a Tree... 09/01/2009 1:13 PM
	A lever. To move the difficult. __________________ Closed biased minds are utterly impervious to any factual evidence which contradicts their beliefs

MOBI Guru Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Australia Posts: 1134 Good Answers: 11	#10 Re: If You Were a Tree... 09/21/2009 10:39 PM
	If I were a tree.... I would need arms and legs To shoo those rotten pets away The dogs from peeing on my trunk and feet And the cats from sticking their nasty claws into my delicate bark and branches. __________________ TO BE. or NOT TO BE. That is the question!! The Bard

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