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(Message started by: helenislovely on Nov 10^th, 2005, 1:56am)

Title: Mathematician vs Engineer
Post by helenislovely on Nov 10^th, 2005, 1:56am

An international conspiracy of art feminists (me) has captured a sex-starved mathematician and engineer.
I place these poor souls at the end of a 1000 metre long room. At the other end is a very beautiful naked woman (not me). The mathematician and the engineer are told that they may move half the distance on their first move. One their second move they may move half the remaining distance and so on. The mathematician instantly starts crying that he will never lose his virginity. The engineer grins and starts walking. What makes the engineer so confident?

Title: Re: Mathematician vs Engineer
Post by Grimbal on Nov 10^th, 2005, 2:56am

either
[hide]Engineers experiment first, and try to understand only when it fails.[/hide]
or
[hide]The engineer knows he only needs to reach the goal within an small error. He has a few extra inches to fill the gap.[/hide]

Title: Re: Mathematician vs Engineer
Post by towr on Nov 10^th, 2005, 3:09am

He's gay, and is walking towards the mathmatician ;D

Alternatively the engineer is a woman (and straight). And again chooses the mathematician, instead of what's at the end of the room.

Title: Re: Mathematician vs Engineer
Post by helenislovely on Nov 10^th, 2005, 7:58am

[hideb][/hideb] The engineer knows that while he can never reach the woman he can get close enough for all practical purposes[hideb][/hideb]
That's my only maths joke. I tell it at parties with other writers and get funny looks.

Title: Re: Mathematician vs Engineer
Post by Neelesh on Nov 10^th, 2005, 8:13am

Nice one.
BTW, a small observation ...
[hideb][/hideb]
When you want to hide the text and you click on "HIDE BLOCK" tag of the editor, you should write the content between the two hide tags -
What you did was you clicked the HIDE BLOCK icon twice - once at start and once at end - and wrote in between - just as this post is written ;D
[hideb][/hideb]

Title: Re: Mathematician vs Engineer
Post by helenislovely on Nov 10^th, 2005, 8:32am

So that's why my text came out an exciting new colour... I thought it was just the computer trying to match my shirt...

Title: Re: Mathematician vs Engineer
Post by Arachnic on Nov 24^th, 2005, 3:34am

Has anyone noticed that the (naked) woman isn't tied down by anything, so the engineer could possibly be confident of inducing her to move the remaining distance once he gets sufficiently close !!! ;D

What say ???

Title: Re: Mathematician vs Engineer
Post by Fool on Nov 24^th, 2005, 11:06am

on 11/24/05 at 03:34:20, Arachnic wrote:

Good point. :o

Title: Re: Mathematician vs Engineer
Post by towr on Nov 24^th, 2005, 1:01pm

The mathematician must realize the engineer will scare the girl off, causing her to flee the building ::)

Title: Re: Mathematician vs Engineer
Post by Icarus on Nov 24^th, 2005, 7:11pm

on 11/24/05 at 03:34:20, Arachnic wrote:

This is a naked beautiful woman with a (presumably male) engineer and mathematician. If she wasn't trapped against her will, she would have fled immediately.

What I want to know is what sort of "feminist" would do this?

Title: Re: Mathematician vs Engineer
Post by JocK on Nov 26^th, 2005, 3:26am

on 11/24/05 at 19:11:12, Icarus wrote:

What I want to know is what sort of "feminist" would do this?

I would assume these are feminist mathematicians...

No more than a conjecture, but the fact that the culprit (Helen) participates in this forum proves the point... :P

Title: Re: Mathematician vs Engineer
Post by ChunkTug on Nov 26^th, 2005, 4:29am

Feminist or not, by the time I made it half way to her the girl would already be throwing herself at me. My eyes are that perfect shade of "panty dropping blue" so it comes a little easier than most.