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Funny Engineering Questions

06/25/2009 11:12 PM

I remember some silly questions that's been circulated in my email few years back. questions like " when worms die, will their body be eaten up by worms too?" and "if the poison expires, will it still be poisonous?"

So these triggers few funny engineering questions in our workplace.

"If there is a FIRE EXIT, should it also have a FIRE ENTRANCE on ther other side?"

"If you put gender for a MANHOLE, should it be female for it is a HOLE for MEN?"

"If duty pump fails and the standby pump runs, should the term standby still applies?"

I can't remember the rest but hope some of you can add on this...

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06/26/2009 5:29 AM

<...If duty pump fails and the standby pump runs, should the term standby still applies?...>

That's an interesting one. Most systems will rotate the duty/standby pump when the duty pump fails, so that when the failure is removed, the previously-failed pump becomes the standby one. So does standby really exist?

It causes lots of discussion on drafts of Functional Design Specifications!

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06/26/2009 6:25 AM

"If you put gender for a MANHOLE, should it be female for it is a HOLE for MEN?"

Probably not, since it would then be the only female hole that most men would dislike penetrating , particularly if it leads to a sewer system . So I guess that would make a sewer manhole male then, since most men hate entering it because it's full of shit . (Oh boy, I'm in an even more vulgar mood than usual today ... .)

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06/28/2009 3:50 PM

CAVEAT LECTOR swallow your coffee before reading.

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Depends on how the cover fits. If the cover sits in a shallow depression, the cover is male and the hole female. If the cover sits flush, then the hole is male, with the cover functioning as a condom.

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But males still get in those "sewers" with every chance they get

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Can an ordinary screw driver be described as a "cordless" screw driver, or a hammer be described as a "cordless" hammer, "cordless" hacksaw, pliers, flashlight etc...

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06/27/2009 3:39 AM

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06/27/2009 8:35 AM

wow! you really collected them?

so many questions, so little time. <LOL>

Q: "At a movie theater, which arm rest is yours?"

A: From the leftmost seat towards the center seat of a row, its the left arm rest. After that, it's the right arm rest. Otherwise, the guys at the ends of the row would have 2 arm rests to use. <LOL>

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Why do they call steam rollers, steam rollers? They don't produce, get rid of, or have anything to do with steam

Actually, they used to be steam operated rollers.

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In the song Yankee Doodle, is he calling the horse or the feather "macaroni"? At the time the song was written, dried pasta had just become popular. You used to have to go to a special restaurant or a bakery or make pasta fresh yourself. When someone invented and marketed dried pasta, you could suddenly buy it in dried goods stores and ship it around the world, and just plain old have macaroni whenever you wanted. Imagine how cool that must have been. Yankee Doodle puts the feather in his hat and calls it macaroni: he thinks wearing a feather in his hat is cool. Have you ever seen anyone (apart from Robin Hood) wearing a feather in his hit, and it has actually been cool or new or exciting? Thought not

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06/27/2009 10:44 AM

Where can I find a doctor that's done practicing medicine?

A doctor that knows what he's doing & is done practicing?

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06/27/2009 11:32 AM

Why are people in a doctor's waiting room called patients?

Because they have to be patient while waiting.

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In bio-remediation, wherein hydrocarbon contamination in soil and/or groundwater is consumed by bacteria that is grown for that purpose, the theory is that, as the hydrocarbons are consumed to a level of zero, the bacteria then begin to feed on one another until they are gone as well. However, the question that one should then pose is, what happens to the last remaining bacterium after it has consumed its next-to-last cohort? Is it one mean SOB that goes off in search of another source of hydrocarbons, say at the nearest fueling station? Does it just die of natural causes or from starvation?

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Actually, that is one that has bothered me a bit ever since I first heard of a company "breeding" and releasing a mass volume of those hydrocarbon-eating bacteria for an oil spill...what's to keep some from eating their way through the sand on the beach to the oil seeping up naturally from below, and destroying a large natural deposit of hydrocarbons?

And what's to keep some idiot "bio-terrorists" from dumping a gallon of said bacteria into any reserviors of oil or gas?

And if their food is oil, what do they poop? liquid CO2?

And if placed into a natural gas tank, do hydrocarbon-eating bacteria breath food?

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Cloning Questions

Are the pope and his clone both infallible? What if they disagree about something?

Can you clone Alan Greenspan, or does it have to be LIVING tissue?

If Larry King clones himself and interviews himself on his show, wouldn't that pretty much make nuclear war something we could all look forward to?

If I have sex with my clone, will I go blind?

If the DNA from the bloody glove were cloned and produced a baby O.J. Simpson, then could we maybe get an actual guilty verdict?

If Hare Krishnas start cloning themselves, how will the rest of us find out?

If you cloned Henry IV, would he be Henry V or Henry IV Jr. or wait, Henry IV part II?

If Michael Jackson is cloned, is it against the law for him to play with himself as a child?

Would there be a market for genetic "factory seconds" and "irregulars"?

Could they clone Al Gore, or would he have to be grafted?

Is it possible to make a clone of Kate Moss and then attach the two together to make a regular-sized person? Sure, she'd have two heads, but that would still be way more normal.

Would it work if I binged and my clone purged?

Would it be ethical to dig up the remains of our founding fathers, create clones from the bone cells, and place them in a theme park called Clonial Williamsburg?

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If you introduce your wife as "mylady@home.wife"

If your spouse sends you an e-mail instead of calling you to dinner

If you can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie

If you want an 8X CDROM for Christmas

If Dilbert is your hero *** <----- ***

If you stare at an orange juice container because it says CONCENTRATE

If you can name 6 Star Trek episodes

If the only jokes you receive are through e-mail

If your wrist watch has more computing power than a 486DX-50

If your idea of good interpersonal communication means getting the decimal point in the right place

If you look forward to Christmas only to put together the kids' toys

If you use a CAD package to design your son's Pine Wood Derby car

If you have used coat hangers and duct tape for something other than hanging coats and taping ducts

If, at Christmas, it goes without saying that you will be the one to find the burnt-out bulb in the string

If you window shop at Radio Shack

If your ideal evening consists of fast-forwarding through the latest sci-fi movie looking for technical inaccuracies

If you have "Dilbert" comics displayed anywhere in your work area

If you carry on a one-hour debate over the expected results of a test that actually takes five minutes to run

If you are convinced you can build a phazer out of your garage door opener and your camera's flash attachment

If you don't even know where the cover to your personal computer is

If you have modified your can-opener to be microprocessor driven

If you know the direction the water swirls when you flush

If you own "Official Star Trek" anything

If you have ever taken the back off your TV just to see what's inside

If a team of you and your co-workers have set out to modify the antenna on the radio in your work area for better reception

If you ever burned down the gymnasium with your Science Fair project

If you are currently gathering the components to build your own nuclear reactor

If you own one or more white short-sleeve dress shirts

If you have never backed-up your hard drive

If you are aware that computers are actually only good for playing games, but are afraid to say it out loud

If you truly believe aliens are living among us

If you have ever saved the power cord from a broken appliance

If you have ever purchased an electronic appliance "as-is"

If you see a good design and still have to change it

If the salespeople at Circuit City can't answer any of your questions

If you still own a slide rule and you know how to work it

If the thought that a CD could refer to finance or music never enters your mind

If you own a set of itty-bitty screw drivers, but you don't remember where they are

If you rotate your screen savers more frequently than your automobile tires

If you have a functioning home copier machine, but every toaster you own turns bread into charcoal

If you have more toys than your kids

If you need a checklist to turn on the TV

If you have introduced your kids by the wrong name

If you have a habit of destroying things in order to see how they work

If your I.Q. number is bigger than your weight

If the microphone or visual aids at a meeting don't work and you rush up to the front to fix it

If you can remember 7 computer passwords but not your anniversary

If you have memorized the program schedule for the Discovery channel and have seen most of the shows already

If you have ever owned a calculator with no equal key and know what RPN stands for

If your father sat 2 inches in front of your family's first color TV with a magnifying lens to see how they made the colors, and you grew up thinking that was normal

If you know how to take the cover off of your computer, and what size screw driver to use

If you can type 70 words a minute but can't read your own handwriting

If people groan at the party when you pick out the music

If you can't remember where you parked your car for the 3rd time this week

If you did the sound system for your senior prom

If your checkbook always balances

If your wristwatch has more buttons than a telephone

If you have more friends on the Internet than in real life

If you thought the real heroes of "Apollo 13" were the mission controllers

If you think that when people around you yawn, it's because they didn't get enough sleep

If you spend more on your home computer than your car

If you know what http:/ stands for

If you've ever tried to repair a $5.00 radio

If you have a neatly sorted collection of old bolts and nuts in your garage

If your three year old son asks why the sky is blue and you try to explain atmospheric absorption theory

If your 4 basic food groups are: 1. Caffeine 2. Fat 3. Sugar 4. Chocolate

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Re: Funny Engineering Questions

07/01/2009 1:09 AM

Does a bar at a nudist resort have a cover charge?
Do catfish have kittens?
Can you tell a dogwood tree by its bark?
If a gray cat crosses your path, will you have so-so luck?

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