Engineering & Science Humor

While they're nothing to laugh at, here are the RF Cafe Polls that were run many years ago when forums were still in vogue.

• Cunningham on R/C: Edsel Murphy's Law
• "Sweatwork" clip from the Welcome Back, Kotter TV show
• "Atomic Bomb" clip from the Barney Miller TV show
• Electronic, Distributed Configurations
• "Yesterday©"- New Lyrics
• Wacky Product Warning Labels
• Undeniable Truths of Life
• Taxing Facts
• Stupid Human Tricks - more
• At the Scientists' Party...
• Oxymorons
• Murphy's Laws of the Physical World
• Murphy's Laws of Engineering
• Logitech LX3 Optical Wheel Mouse Scrolling Problem Solved
• You Know You're a Ham When...
• How Popular Websites Looked When They First Appeared
• Headhunters Not So Dumb?
• FCC Vanity Call Sign SNAFU
• Psalm of an Engineer - Revised Version
• Conundrums for the Cranium
• Calvin's Dad's Explanations of Scientific Phenomena
• Early 21st Century Office Terms
• Funnies from The Good Life: October 2014
• Tech Comics from Keysight cum Agilent cum HP
• Electronics Themed Comics from the September 1945 & December 1947 editions of Radio Craft
• Finally... Proof That Communism Works !!!
• Comics with the Potential to Make You Laugh!
• Funnies from The Good Life: August 2014
• A Handful of Good Techie Jokes
• Dilbert CEO Photo Flash Advertisement Idea
• Funnies from The Good Life: July 2014
• Funnies from The Good Life: June 2014
• Comics from 1958 Radio-Electronics magazines
• Funnies from The Good Life: May 2014
• Jokes Only Smart People Will "Get"
• The Missed Exam
• What Resume Claims Really Mean
• This Is Not the Internet (plus a techie quip)
• Time to Ban iPhones and iPads?
• The Government Is Bombarding Citizens with Radiation!
• Longest Word in English Takes 213 Minutes to Say
• A Sad State of Affairs
• "As God As My Witness, I Thought Turkeys Could Fly" - WKRP in Cincinnati -
• 10 Commandments of Experts
• Dilbert the Pilot
• An Engineer's Valentine 
• Top Ten Ways You Know You Just Might Be Married To a Ham
• Put the Mad Scientist Back into Ham Radio
• RF Cafe MoneyBomb
• Vintage Ads with Science / Technology Themes
• The 10 Top Reasons to Keep Printed Books
• Technology Axioms
• Random Technology Humor
• Tim Hawkins Video - "The Government Can"
• Waveform Art
• Cell Phones Cause Accidents
• Help Wanted - Computer Engineer
• "Outside the Box" Methods for ESD Testing on Welcome Back Kotter (c.1976)
• Barney Miller - Atomic Bomb
• Universal Grade Change Form
• Dimwit Celebrities Exhibit Lack of Science Knowledge
• Downsizing Government - The Right Way!
• 2008 Darwin Awards
• A Taxing Poem
• The Washington Post Mensa Invitational
• MSDS for the Woman Element
• A Memorable Senior Moment
• Some Life-Saving e-Mails
• Those Evil Radios! (c1948)
• Political Correctness and Datasheets
• The World's Funniest Joke
• Why Santa Claus Must Be a Woman
• The 12 Politically Correct Days of Christmas
• Geek Speak 2007 - Newly coined words and phrases
• Jargon from the IT Department - How to know of the IT guys are insulting you
• Some Very Good Points
  
• A Few Facts About Words
• "The Knack" - Dilbert's Childhood Malady
• U.S. Navy's Official UFO Website
• 2007 Darwin Awards
• Funny Website Error Page - This is hilarious!
• Easter Egg Archive - An extensive of Easter Eggs found in software, books, movies, TV.
• Why Men Should Not Baby-Sit - Disclaimer: No babies were harmed while making this video.
• The Secret to the Prius' Great Gas Mileage
• Liberal Arts College Entrance Exam
• Mr. C's Top 15 Current IT Buzzwords
• Clumsy Crooks - This website archives news stories of some of the stupider outlaws.
• The Apple iRack - This caught me off guard, but I still think it's extremely clever
• Some Interesting Questions - A collection of funny, but pensive, questions
• How Not to Take a Test - These are classic!
• The Importance of Correct Punctuation - The is an amazing example of how punctuation can completely change the meaning of a communication
• 2006 Darwin Award Winners Announced - Where the winners are the losers™ (RF Cafe)
• USAF Test from April 1973 Popular Mechanics - This you have to see to believe!
• David Letterman's Tribute to Bill Gates' Retirement - This is a YouTube video, so be prepared for audio
• 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
• Despair.com - Demotivators™
• Rules of the College Chemistry Lab - See if these don't bring back some memories of the 'ol college days!
• Jon Stewart's Hilarious Report on N. Korea's "Nuclear" Test - You've got to see this!
• Kirt's Coffee Drinkability Rule - Another addition to the 'Valuable Lessons Learned from the USAF' series
• Are You a Democrat, Republican or Southerner? - Yet another bit of humor provided by Steve (a proud Democrat, by the way!).
• ThisIsBroken.com - Funny stuff: "A project to make businesses more aware of their customer experience, and how to fix it."
• Classic Lateral Thinking Exercises - Not really humor, but good brain therapy
• Microsoft Technical Support vs. The Psychic Friends Network - A poke at two great American institutions
• Top 10 Reasons Why e (e) is Inferior to
  pi (π) - In classic David Letterman form...
• The original RF Cafe Humor archive page
• The crappy gas mileage on my 2011 Jeep Patriot is no joke. Jeep advertised 21 mpg in town; mine gets about 18-19 mpg.
• Funnies from The Good Life: December 2014 & January 2015
• Familiar Quantities and Subjects Technical Challenge
• If Cars Were Like Computers...
• "Sweathog Clinic for the Cure of Smoking" clip from the Welcome Back, Kotter TV show
• Technical Punography
• The Great Christmas Card Glitter Conspiracy
• Comics with Electronics Theme
  Popular Electronics and Radio Electronics
• 4 More Electronics Themed Comics from the August 1945 edition of Radio Craft
• The Clever Professor - A funny story - and actually believable
• Definitions of Some Common Amateur Radio Terms - The "real" definitions
• T'Was the Night Before Startup - This is a little dated to the pre-tech boom crash, but still funny
• 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
• Instructions for the Operation of the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch - For some reason, this scene from Monty Python's, "In Search of the Holy Grail" just cracks me up
• 15 Reasons Why a Slide Rule is Better than a Workstation - Geek humor

These Technically-Themed Comics Appeared in Vintage Electronics Magazines:

• Comics with High Tech Theme from the November 1944 edition of Radio Craft
• 1 to the 4th Power Amplification in Star Trek Episode
• 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
• How to Choose a College Major - It does not included engineering, but is funny anyway
• Microsoft TV Dinners - Sure, it's another gratuitous swipe at MS, but clever anyway
• Abbott & Costello's Cyber-Routine - This is not the one already posted
• Chemical Analysis of Human Elements - You'll love this
• 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!!!!
• The 2005 Darwin Awards Are Out - Where the winners are the losers™ (RF Cafe)
• 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.
• Teenager Politically Correct Terminology - All parents need - or will need - this guide