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A Maineiac
Mainer = A person who stays in Maine for an entire winter.
Maineiac = A person who doesn't have the sense to leave Maine after the 1st winter.
You Might Be An Engineer If...
- The only jokes you receive are through e-mail.
- At Christmas, it goes without saying that you will be the one to find the burnt-out bulb in the string of Christmas lights.
- Buying flowers for your girlfriend or spending the money to upgrade your RAM is a moral dilemma.
- Everyone else on the Alaskan Cruise is on deck peering at the scenery, and you are still on a personal tour of the engine room.
- In college, you thought Spring Break was metal fatigue failure.
- The Salespeople at Circuit City can't answer any of your questions.
- You are always late to meetings.
- You are at an air show and know how fast the skydivers are falling.
- You are next in line on death row in a French Prison and you find that the guillotine is not working properly, so you offer to fix it.
- You bought your wife a new CD ROM for her birthday.
- You forget to get a haircut... for six months!
- You can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie.
- You can type 70 words per minute but can't read your own handwriting
- You can't write unless the paper has both horizontal and vertical lines.
- You comment to your wife that her straight hair is nice and parallel.
- You go on the rides at Disneyland and sit backwards in the chairs to see how they do the special effects.
- You have Dilbert comics displayed anywhere in your work area.
- You have ever saved the power cord from a broken appliance.
- You have more friends on the internet than in real life.
- You have never backed up your hard drive.
- You have never bought any new underwear or socks for yourself since you got married.
- You have used coat hangers and duct tape for something other than hanging coats and taping ducts.
- You know what http:// stands for.
- You look forward to Christmas only to put together the kids' toys.
- You own one or more white short-sleeve dress shirts.
- You see a good design and still have to change it.
- You spent more on your calculator than you did on your wedding ring.
- You still own a slide rule and you know how to use it.
- You think a pocket protector is a fashion accessory.
- You think that when people around you yawn, it's because they didn't get enough sleep.
- You wear black socks with tennis shoes (or vice versa).
- You window shop at Radio Shack.
- You're in the backseat of your car, she's looking wistfully at the moon, and your trying to locate a geosynchronous satellite.
- Your checkbook always balances.
- Your laptop computer costs more than your car.
- Your wife hasn't the foggiest idea of what you do at work.
- Your wrist watch has more computing power than a 300 MHz Pentium.
- You've already calculated how much you make per second.
- You've ever tried to repair a $5 radio.
- Your four basic food groups are: 1. Caffeine; 2. Fat; 3. Sugar; 4. Chocolate.
