This Is Not the Internet

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 appeared in the November 2013 edition of The Good Life, a local newspaper of northern Michigan. Each monthly edition is chock full of not just news and advertisements, but also scores of jokes and riddles.

"Okay, I'm five-foot-three and pleasingly plump. Recently, after I had a minor accident, my mother accompanied me to the emergency room.

The ER nurse asked for my height and weight, and I responded in a serious tone, 'Five-foot-eight, 125 pounds.'

While the nurse pondered this information, my mother leaned over to me...

'Sweetheart, she gently chided, 'this is not the Internet."

And now, at no extra charge, a tech riddle:

Q. How do the guys in a close-knit group of technology refer to each other?

A. Algebros

Posted 11/2/2013

LadyBug LB5954L Power Sensor with LAN Option - RF Cafe Website

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