Subject: Re: TAN: Christianity (was :Witty Retorts?)
From: jsn@concentric.net (John S. Novak, III)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan
Organization: Cynics Central

On Sun, 23 May 1999 15:48:49 GMT, Kate Nepveu <knepveu@lynx.neu.edu> wrote:

>> Never let it be said that engineers are the only people who don't get
>> jokes about their own profession.  (Actually, we do.  Really, we do.
>> We're laughing hysterically on the inside, while on the outside, we're
>> following up on the pathological need to correct whatever it was you
>> said.)

>I don't think I have any engineer jokes, but should I ever come across
>one, I'll keep that in mind.

Three corporate lawyers and three company engineers are making a
long train trip together.  On their departing trip, the engineers
dutifully buy one ticket each.  The lawyers, they notice, only buy
one.  The engineers point out the obvious flaw in this plan, but the
lawyers only sneer, and say "Watch and learn, boys!"

So the engineers watch.  When the tickets are being collected, the
lawyers get up and go into the restroom car.  An engineer follows
them, and sees them all climb into one toilet stall, contorting
themselves so that only one pair of feet is visible from below.  When
the ticket collector gets that far, he knocks on the stall door and
says, "Ticket please!"  The lawyers hand one ticket under the door,
and all is well.  They return to their seats separately.

The engineer rolls his eyes.

On their return trip, the engineers and lawyers meet again.  The
lawyers, as before, buy one ticket.  The engineers buy no ticket at
all.  The lawyers again sneer and disparage the engineers.  The
engineers say nothing, but look confident.  This time, when the ticket
collectors begins, all six of them head for the restroom car.  The
lawyers pile into one stall, and the engineers pile into the other.

Then, very quietly, one of the engineers creeps out, bangs on the
lawyers' stall and says, "Ticket please!" takes the ticket and creeps
back into the engineering stall.


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John S. Novak, III		jsn@concentric.net
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