sorry pryia humor isn't my stong point sometimes... is there humor in engineering?

Answer 1

Look at some of the Rube Goldberg cartoons or the Rube Goldberg contest held at Purdue University. Very funny stuff.

Answer 2

Amended
Funny thing happened to me on the way to the galaxy. I met one of those carbon - based engineers from the third orbit around the #2 level heliofurnace, and he said, "Take me to your Flabnack." Flabnack, get it ? Har Har, that's a killer. Yes we engineers have a universal sense of humor.

Baldor, Chief Science Officer
The Planet Gaaak

Response to GBH
Your ( But I don’t get it. What’s a flabnack? ) inquiry has been forwarded to my attention by Chief Science Officer, Baldor

"Flabnack" - it isn't anything.
That is the point of "engineer humor" - there isn't much of it and what little of it there is- is seen as contrived, corny, "inside" geek humor and superficial. I suppose you have to be an engineer, a sibling or be married to one to get it. But it isn't always true. It is only supposedly true just like the supposition that " all good looking blonds are dummm". (That is of course in reference to the carbon-base units occupying the third orbit from the #2 magnitude heliofurnace) . The ones here really are.
He was poking fun at that concept of engineer humor and also that supposedly even engineers from distant galaxies are likewise corny because they are, after all, still just - - engineers, which I do find to be a bit judgmental.
He did not know what the questioner's "pryia" reference meant and neither did the other "engineer-type" responders. Perhaps he meant "apriori" which is true of most humor anyway in that there must be some presumpton for most jokes to work. For instance, the Chief Science Officer has presumed that those seeing the "Flabnack" reference, already knew what it meant. That is inside (apriori) humor. Perhaps if he had said, "Babfakkle" it would have been more universally reognized. Babfakkle; I like that one, Yuk Yuk.

Gardor, Chief Engineering Philosophy Officer
The Planet Gaaak

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Answer 3

Yes, there is a lot of humor in engineering but alas only another engineer can understand most of it.

Answer 4

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Sorry pryia humor isn't my stong point sometimes.


Neither is your spelling.

Answer 5

yes, I am an electrical engineer and I am very funny.

You know what they say about electrical engineers,
1. We can remove your shorts.
2. You cant spell gEEk with out a double EE.

Is that enought.