Do Engineers have a (Weird) Sense of Humor 15

[MiketheEngineer]

Along the lines of a previous post - Do engineers have a sense a humor (I know some do) or if so - is it quite different than the average Joe??

 

[DRWeig]

From my circle of engineer friends (me included), we seem to appreciate irony more than most other groups...



Good on ya,

Goober Dave

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[DRWeig]

And puns.

Good on ya,

Goober Dave

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[Latexman]

We are all drawn to Dibert like its a black hole!

Good luck,
Latexman

 

[berkshire]

Latexman (Chemical)
You find Dilbert funny ?
I thought he was real life
B.E.

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[SnTMan]

I think it should be obvious from reading the various threads that engineers definitely have a sense of humor. Weird? Well that depends...

Agree about irony, puns and Dilbert. On the other hand I don't find, for example, movies based mostly around f@rt jokes especially funny, as many of my non-engineer friends seem to.

Weird? Says who?

Regards,

Mike

 

[SNORGY]

Engineers have an esoteric sense of humour.

Esoteric in that nobody else understands it.

Sort of like...sitting in a project scoping meeting in a conference room a few weeks ago.

Manager (MBA): "I don't know if we should take on this work. We have never designed a railroad loading terminal.".
Engineer (P.Eng.): "Don't worry, it can be trained.".

No response.

 

[ctopher]

We are human too. Some have a sense of humor, some don't.
But, a lot of us are weird.

Chris
SolidWorks 11
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[JohnRBaker]

But 'Dilbert' IS real...

Check out Scott Adams' life story if you don't believe that 'Dilbert' isn't real. Scott Adams was the keynote speaker at a conference I attended a few years ago and his life story is very interesting, particularly when it comes to how close he came to NOT being a cartoonist.

Being in software development, this is my all time favorite (and I've sat across the table from people who have made virtually this exact request):

This one comes in a close second:

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

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[monkeydog]

In the aerospace world, many projects/programs seem to have significant milestones that seem to fall on holidays such as Christmas break, Thanksgiving, Labor & Memorial Day.

This results in those projects/programs being called "Holiday seeking missile"

 

[Ron]

No. The rest of the world just needs to understand that without us, they could not function, so our sense of humor prevails....that would make their sense of humor "weird"

Our sense of humor might be categorized as sardonic, sarcastic, ironic and even pun oriented, but we are not sophomoric.....well, most of the time.

 

[Comcokid]

I've found a number of engineers who also get into the humor of Wierd Al Yankovic. Maybe that's because many engineers are viewed as nerds. We can't keep up with the latest pop-culture rap song unless we hear it sung as a polka. Well - at least I don't own a Sedgway, so maybe I'm not quite 'White and Nerdy'.

 

[lacajun]

Racing Segways through a bike shop is great fun!

I find the humor of engineers to be more clever and intellectual than most others. That's nice!

Pamela K. Quillin, P.E.
Quillin Engineering, LLC

 

[patprimmer]

I'm with Ron. It's them that's strange, not us, no matter how many of them or how few of us.

Regards
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[rmw]

I thought Dilbert was some guy lurking around all our cubes and meetings taking notes.

rmw

PS: all kidding aside, I have long since wondered how Scott Adams has managed to stay so fresh and current with his material in that he left Pacific Bell eons ago and to my knowledge hasn't worked in the corporate world since.

 

[lacajun]

rmw, I read his fans give him plenty of material through their complaints.

Pamela K. Quillin, P.E.
Quillin Engineering, LLC

 

[patprimmer]

But the corporate world has been pretty much the same since history was recorded. Technologies, nomenclature and cultures change, but human nature and politics is constant.

Regards
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[Maui]

Exposure to the idiocy of management is one of the most common engineering experiences, and Scott Adams will never run out of material as a result. It's also why his comic strip is so popular - we can all relate to it on some level. And in certain cases it is exactly what we have experienced ourselves, which makes it funny and disturbing all at once.

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[KENAT]

There's too much variation in humor between cultures to try and generalize too much with regard to specific professions.

In both the UK and US I've known some funny engineers and some pretty dull ones. I'm afraid I have to say on average the UK guys had (to my tastes perhaps biased being a Brit originally) a better sense of humor. Honestly, based on this site while there are folks from all kinds of backgrounds that are pretty humorous, I'd say the commonwealth folk have an edge over the US folk on average - though there are some glaring exceptions.

For what it's worth my wife and many of her friends & colleagues have a pretty low opinion of the (US) Engineers they've encountered (both on this and other traits) and my wife often gets told I'm 'not like other engineers'.

Honestly though, the fact that thread730-320845 has over 100 posts says something about our humor.

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[rterickson]

I've found a number of engineers who also get into the humor of Wierd Al Yankovic. Maybe that's because many engineers are viewed as nerds. We can't keep up with the latest pop-culture rap song unless we hear it sung as a polka. Well - at least I don't own a Sedgway, so maybe I'm not quite 'White and Nerdy'.

Didn't Weird Al attend Cal Poly SLO (engineering school) back in the 80s?