IBM Jingle

1. I.B.M., Happy men, smiling all the way.

oh what fun it is to sell our products night and day.

I.B.M., Watson men, partners of T. J.

In his service to mankind-that's why we are so gay.

- Triumph of the Nerds

* Thanks Snipes.

Community Medicine

I was just reading a "Textbook of Medicine" and I stumbled upon something interesting.  Goiter is a disease caused by a lack of ingested iodine used in the thyroid gland.  It causes thyroid hypertrophy (enlargement).  To publicly reduce this disease, table salt now contains small amount of iodine.  We are being treated for a disease without even knowing it.  

Death of an Engineer

A doctor, a lawyer, and an engineer are all scheduled for execution on a guillotine. As they step up to the scaffold, each is given a choice of lying face up or face down. The doctor goes first, and believing that one should confront one's fate directly, he opts to lie face up. The blade drops but then screeches to a stop just a foot above the doctor's throat. Amid the gasps of the crowd, the doctor is released.
The lawyer goes next. She is sure that legal precedent would lead to her own release were the blade to stop for her just as it had for the doctor, so she also lies face up. Again the blade stops short, and the lawyer is released.
Now its the engineer's turn. He figures that his best bet is to go with whatever worked before. So he lies face up and sees the blade overhead. But then, just before the blade is drops, he turns to the executioner and says, "Wait! I think I see what your problem is up there."

Engineering Code

We are the willing
led by the unknowing
doing the impossible for the ungrateful
and we have been doing
so much,
with so little,
for so long,
that we are now qualified,
to do anything with nothing

Godiva

Godiva was a lady who through Coventry did ride,
To show to all the villagesrs her lovely lily-white hide;
The most observant man of all, an Engineer of course, Was the only on who noticed that Godiva rode a horse.

Chorus:
we are, we are, we are, we are, we are the Engineers
We can, we can, we can, we can, demolish forty beers.
So come, so come, so come so come, so come along with us
For we don't give a damn for any old man who don't give a damn for us.

"I've come a long, long way" she said "and i would go as far,
with the man who takes me from this horse and leads me to a bar."
The men who took her from her stteed and stood her to a beer,
Were a blurry-eyed surveyor and a drunken Engineer.
Chorus

The army and the navy boys set out to have some fun,
Down at the tavern where the fiery liquids run,
But all they found were empties for the Engineers had come,
And traded all their instruments for gallon jugs of rum.
Chorus

*more to come*