Effective Advertisement by Mentor Graphics

These engineering and science tech-centric jokes, song parodies, anecdotes and assorted humor have been collected from friends and websites across the Internet. I check back occasionally for new fodder, but it seems all the old content is reappearing all over (like this is). The humor is light-hearted and clean and sometimes slightly assaultive to the easily-offended, so you are forewarned. It is all workplace-safe.

Humor #1, #2, #3

This advertisement by Mentor Graphics strikes me both as humorous and extremely effective at getting their point across. The dog's blackness an glowing yellow eyes, waiting to tear asunder the unwitting and unprepared dupe is a riot. This ad, and others of a similar nature, have run in trade publications like EE Times.

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Reprinted with the permission of Mentor Graphics

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RF Cafe began life in 1996 as "RF Tools" in an AOL screen name web space totaling 2 MB. Its primary purpose was to provide me with ready access to commonly needed formulas and reference material while performing my work as an RF system and circuit design engineer. The World Wide Web (Internet) was largely an unknown entity at the time and bandwidth was a scarce commodity. Dial-up modems blazed along at 14.4 kbps while tying up your telephone line, and a lady's voice announced "You've Got Mail" when a new message arrived...