These tech-centric jokes,
song parodies, anecdotes and assorted humor have been collected from friends and
websites across the Internet. This humor is light-hearted and sometimes slightly
offensive to the easily-offended, so you are forewarned. It is all workplace-safe.
Rockwell Controls Retro
Encabulator - This video is a take-off of the Turboencabulator that was popularized
by General Electric in its 1962 catalog. It seems so real.
GE's Turboencabulator Datasheet
- This is a scan of the actual pages of a 1962 catalog The turboencabulator was
supposedly described by a "J.H.Quick" in "The Institution of Electrical Engineers,
Students Quarterly Journal" 25 (London), p184 in 1955
Watch It Get Shredded!
- The SSI company has short videos of all kinds of stuff being shredded, form entire
boats, to computers, to refrigerators, to concrete
Dilbertisims - ...from
The Tamster's Hangout website
Listen to
"The Measurement Blues" - Finally, a song for engineers struggling to make measurements,
by Martin Rowe, Senior Technical Editor of Test & Measurement World
On the Effectiveness of
Aluminum Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study - A collaborative effort between MIT's
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Media departments presents evidence
about whether these devices can protect the wearer from mind control efforts by
governments and aliens
Income Tax Quotations - Although these quotes are funny, it is like having the
IRS stick its finger in your eye since every one of them came directly from the
Internal Revenue Service website!!!!
Jack Schitt & Family - Surely you have heard the names of most members of
this famous clan.
How Cathode Ray Tubes Work - The HowStuffWorks.com
guy explores the construction of a cathode ray tube (CRT) using a highly unusual
method of gaining access to the guts of it. Let's just say you should not try this
at home (unless you live in the country, anyway)
How Caffeine Works - ...a short scientific
explanation from the HowStuffWorks.com website
Buzzword Bingo - A Must-Have
for Your Next Meeting! - Print this bingo card and take it with you to your
next meeting. Mark the buzzwords as you hear them; the BINGO square is a free square.
If you get five in a row (up, down, diagonally), shout "Bingo!". You've won! Java
applet auto-generates new cards.
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