You may have guessed by now that I love engineers.  I am not one myself; my degree is in mathematics.  But tell me, what would engineering be without math?  I rest my case.

Engineering and mathematics are strong in both my heredity and my environment.  Therefore I laughed harder at this Don McMillan comedy routine than I have in quite a whle.  If you are an engineer, or know an engineer, you may, too.

If you're not an engineer and don't want to sit through 25 minutes of jokes you might not understand, but you would like to understand better the engineers in your life, here's the important graphic from the section that starts at 24:50.

My father may have been an engineer himself, but as I read through his journals I run repeatedly into comments expressing frustration about how hard it was to read my emotions.  As he said after my first experience of a fireworks show, on my 7th birthday:  "As usual, she gave little indication of how she was impressed."  Perhaps I'm more engineer than I thought.

Anyway, I hope that made some of you smile, thinking about yourself and the engineers around you.  (Thanks to ND for finding this.)

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