Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Them's the brakes (off-topic joke)
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neshura
Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:39 pm
#1
There was an engineer, manager and programmer driving down a steep mountain road.
The brakes failed and the car careened down the road out of control.
Half way down the driver managed to stop the car by running it against the embankment narrowing avoiding going over a cliff.
They all got out, shaken by their narrow escape from death, but otherwise unharmed.
The manager said "To fix this problem we need to organize a committee, have meetings, and through a process of continuous improvement, develop a solution."
The engineer said "No that would take too long, and besides that method never worked before. I have my trusty pen knife here and will take apart the brake system, isolate the problem and correct it."
The programmer said "I think you're both wrong! I think we should all push the car back up the hill and see if it happens again."
(Disclaimer: I'm a programmer AND a manager AND an engineer. Just thought I would try to inject a bit of a laugh into the boards, since as Soiddan observed, a lot of people are pretty down.)
from http://www.frontiernet.net/~tzuleger/webjokes/engineerjokes.htm
The brakes failed and the car careened down the road out of control.
Half way down the driver managed to stop the car by running it against the embankment narrowing avoiding going over a cliff.
They all got out, shaken by their narrow escape from death, but otherwise unharmed.
The manager said "To fix this problem we need to organize a committee, have meetings, and through a process of continuous improvement, develop a solution."
The engineer said "No that would take too long, and besides that method never worked before. I have my trusty pen knife here and will take apart the brake system, isolate the problem and correct it."
The programmer said "I think you're both wrong! I think we should all push the car back up the hill and see if it happens again."
(Disclaimer: I'm a programmer AND a manager AND an engineer. Just thought I would try to inject a bit of a laugh into the boards, since as Soiddan observed, a lot of people are pretty down.)
from http://www.frontiernet.net/~tzuleger/webjokes/engineerjokes.htm
duncje
Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:50 pm
#2
LOL. Don't give the devs any ideas, though, they'll just push us back to the top of the hill....
Warrhawk
Fri Jan 30, 2004 3:29 pm
#3
We can deduce that the programmer was drivinghis car because on the carhad a bumper sticker that said "Users are Losers" and it was not focusing on drugs.
Jenden
Fri Jan 30, 2004 4:00 pm
#4
programmer sounds right to me, though for the second time through he has to remember to turn on all the car's debugging lights...
Sirgleno
Sat Jan 31, 2004 1:26 am
#6
Well clearly the engineer has the correct solution, long live the engineer.
Virtanis
Sat Jan 31, 2004 1:27 am
#7
Shouldn't the programmer also investigate the possibility of "user error"? 
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