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Re: Engineers & Hell, but no LBC content

To: Scott Gardner <gardner7@pilot.infi.net>
Subject: Re: Engineers & Hell, but no LBC content
From: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 1998 16:13:40 +0000
Scott Gardner wrote:
>
> I'll go ahead and add my engineer joke to the mix:
>
>         An engineer and a mathematician work together, and are always
> arguing as to which of them is the better problem-solver.  Finally,
> their boss gets tired of all the bickering, and decides to end it
> once and for all.  He calls the two women into the conference room,
> and says "Here's a problem for you both.  If you were to drop a
> chicken off the top of the Empire State Building, how long would it
> take to hit the ground?"  

But chickens can fly, can't they?

> The mathematician is selected to go first.
> She fills up three chalkboards with equations, taking into account
> air resistance, the difference in gravity from the top of the
> building to the bottom, thermal updrafts, the surface area of the
> chicken's wings, atmoshperic pressure, and all sorts of various and
> sundry parameters.  Two hours later, she comes up with her answer.
> The boss is suitably impressed.
> Now it's the engineer's turn.  She walks up, erases the chalkboards,
> and begins -- "Assuming a round, frictionless chicken...."

Ah, a frozen chicken!

PaulH


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