Years ago, I was friends with an engineer at JPL. When I met her I tried to make a joke about having never before met a rocket scientist. She looked at me disdainfully and said, "I'm a rocket engineer!" I was duly chagrined.
Here are a few topical jokes.
A mathematician, a physicist and an engineer were being interviewed. As part of the process, they were given 2 brass ball bearings, left alone for a while, then asked what they had done.
Mathematician: "I haven't done anything with them, but I've some theories about 2-ness."
Physicist: "I've tried to balance one on the other, and have some ideas about friction."
Engineer: "Er... they broke."
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Three hungry cannibals --- who were a chemist, a physicist and an engineer --- found a human thigh bone.
The chemist licked it, and put it in water to try to dissolve it.
The physicist tried to break it open to get at the marrow.
The engineer took it, hit the other two over the head, and ate them.
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A physicist, engineer and a statistician are out hunting. Suddenly, a deer appears 50 yards away.
The physicist does some basic ballistic calculations, assuming a vacuum, lifts his rifle to a specific angle, and shoots. The bullet lands 5 yards short.
The engineer adds a fudge factor for air resistance, lifts his rifle slightly higher, and shoots. The bullet lands 5 yards long.
The statistician yells "We got him!"
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Thanks for reading.
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