You might be an engineer if ...

[HawkerHurricane]

You might be an engineer if ...

... choosing to buy flowers for your girlfriend or upgrading your RAM is a moral dilemma.

... you take a cruise so you can go on a personal tour of the engine room.

... in college you thought Spring Break was metal fatigue failure.

... the sales people at the local computer store can't answer any of your questions

... at an air show you know how fast the skydivers are falling.

... you bought your wife/girlfriend (husband/boyfriend)a new CD-ROM drive (or a Palm Pilot) for her birthday.

... you can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie.

... you can type 70 words per minute but can't read your own handwriting.

... you comment to your wife that her straight hair is nice and parallel.

... you sit backwards on the Disneyland rides to see how they do the special effects.

... you have saved every power cord from all your broken appliances.

... you have more friends on the Internet than in real life.

... you know what <http:// stands for.

... you look forward to Christmas so you can put the kids' toys together.

... you see a good design and still have to change it.

... you spent more on your calculator than you did on your wedding ring.

... you still own a slide rule and know how to use it.

... you think that people yawning around you are sleep deprived.

... you window shop at Radio Shack

....your laptop computer costs more than your car.

... your wife hasn't the foggiest idea of what you do at work.

... You've already calculated how much you make per second.

... you've tried to repair a $5 radio.

[BlueJazz]

1. Oh..Man..Except for a few of those.... That's Me.

..sigh..

[lapfog_1]

2. I'm guilty on so many levels!

But then... "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

[Salviati]

3. You think that sqrt(-1) == j

Though that's just a bit of intra-geekdom jousting...

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

12. It's both i and j.... n/t

[Salviati]

15. Infidel!

j is the angular momentum quantum number!

[Mike Niendorff]

16. lmao :)

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. did you know ...

that if you take the letter count in the words "You might be an engineer if" you get 3-5-2-2-8-2, a sequence that appears in pi?

[KT2000]

5. LOL - saving your post

my Dad was an engineer. One thing I remember was whenever we went to a wedding or funeral in a church - my Dad would spend the whole time with his head up studying the ceiling and its supports. People probably thought he was a very devout man, but in truth he did not hear a word that was said.

[LynzM]

6. LMAO

Too funny... seen most of those before, guilty of some, though my husband is guilty of more :)

"What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?"

[Sgent]

8. African or European swallow?

[HawkerHurricane]

10. I don't know!

Bwaaaaaaa! (Thrown off bridge, falls to death)

[BiggJawn]

7. Oh, shit...I got 14 of them!

Do they give tours of the engine room on Carnaval Cruises?

BTW, I own 10 slide rules...

[fortyfeetunder]

9. At the risk of getting a hand slap from the mods

you might be an engineer when you can describe your night of romance in scientific terms...

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

11. Notice how some of these are worded with the assumption

that you must be a man if you are an engineer.

I find that annoying being a woman with an engineering degree.

you can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie
-- but I don't because it's super nerdy.

you have saved every power cord from all your broken appliances.
--- used to save broken appliance for parts, but now we are trying to get rid of stuff because we're going to be moving.

you have more friends on the Internet than in real life.
---quasi internet friends anyhow.

you spent more on your calculator than you did on your wedding ring.
---this true for my husband and I.

you think that people yawning around you are sleep deprived.
---sure, I'm not that boring.

You've already calculated how much you make per second.
---that's easy $0 per second, since I'm unemployed.

[fnottr]

14. Rock on, we need more of you

2-3 women in some of my classes of 30 or so people.....and this is 2005.....

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

13. ... you've tried to repair a $5 radio.

Probably would if we owned a $5 radio. I did repair my son's $20 leapfrog toy a couple days ago.

[IronLionZion]

17. Welcome to Castle Anthrax

yes, I'm guilty :P