Fighting Words - from engineers, technologists
 

so, thus, not yer normal fightin' words

for example:

"back off buddy, or I'll float yer grounds"

I'll kick your asymptote.

We used to (o.k., maybe we still...) flash the "gang" sign - the right hand axis formed with the thumb, index, and middle fingers. I defy anyone to come up with more "geek" than that...

What about the right hand rule for moments in mechanics and induced magnetic fields in coils of wire with current running through. Thumb in direction of positive current flow, fingers show the direction of magnetic field lines.

Aren't posts 3 and 4 the same thing? Maybe they were typing at the same time...

How do you know you're talking with an extroverted scientist, engineer, technologist, etc?

They're looking at your shoes.

Or flash the X,Y and Z axis on your forehead - not just a regular looser but a 3 DIMENSIONAL LOSER!

Great Minds Think Alike

(and so do they)

"I will curl your vectors, buddy!"

Well, I was just describing the other side of the right-hand rule. My post was in response to Jeff's

Actually they are looking out the window.

Higgins you geek.

I use my left hand for the engineer gang sign

dare to be different.

"Yo Axis"


sigh, CATIA still doesn't help you see the light?

Wow.... You engineer geeks are worse than us Chem geeks.....

Did you hear the one about the pane crash? The co-pilot was from Poland...

The Electrical engineers always dissed the rest of the engineers, because they thought they were smarter.

The Mechanical Engineers always dissed the Civils, because they KNEW they were smarter. And they always hated those stupid double-E courses. But they also dated better looking women than the rest of the engineers, because they had the best cars.

Civils, well, what can you say about them? It's either concrete, asphalt or poo...

I'm an ME but became one later in life and ended up in management, so I'm different ;)

My idea of fighting words are:
"You have a funding request that is still awaiting approval, right?"

you are about to be immortalized, my friend...

actually, Civ. E. at one time was a huge growth field and drew a lot of top people - but we've pretty much built all the big dams, etc. already

now for ME... I took a heatX ME course once & was amused when the professor overheard all the EEs, EEEs and EEEEEEEEEks, complaining about "being forced to take this stoopid course", so he went thru a chimney type convection analysis and then announced people who don't understand this have destroyed many expensive computer systems for lack of cooling. It got real quiet after that.

Mech.E.' s make weapons. Civ E's make targets.

Civil engineers - rebar benders, asphalt spreaders and grout trowlers.