Engineering Humor

[walrus]

Oh, that would be an "A" in my class! LMAO!

walrus

 

[JohnW63]

I think his co-workers put him there for some very good reason.

 

[GGJaguar]

 

[Uke]

This is so true it hurts. I used to have this as a slide in one of my classes.

Oh how true this is for virtually every field/discipline.

 

[GAD]

 

[JohnW63]

I was hoping for coffee grounds in the bag.

 

[awagner]

I am slow today. Please explain this one to me.

 

[GAD]

It’s a ground wire which, in a house, should actually be Earth ground.

The joke is that the bag has “Earth” in it and is therefore ground.

 

[awagner]

Thanks. I think I would have gotten it if the symbol on the bag was not there, which, ironically, is the key to the joke.

 

[GAD]

In a similar vein:

 

[GAD]

While we're on the subject of grounding:

 

[GAD]

This one might be better placed in the Safety First thread...

 

[GAD]

I have found a frightening number of pics, some of which are clearly not gags.

 

[GAD]

I needed this to cleanse my palate.

 

[JohnW63]

If some you've found are not jokes, that is just scary.

The only change I've heard of, during a meeting about network rack changed outs and the proper way to ground them, was that grounding to a plumbing pipe is no longer allowed.

 

[GAD]

If some you've found are not jokes, that is just scary.

The only change I've heard of, during a meeting about network rack changed outs and the proper way to ground them, was that grounding to a plumbing pipe is no longer allowed.

This says that's been the case since the '70s, at least for homes: https://www.howtolookatahouse.com/B...y-ground-for-a-house-electrical-system-1.html

I don't know about commercial, but having worked in a telephony company I wouldn't dare use plumbing for ground. Those guys are absolutely militant about proper ground.

Fun story: After Hurricane Sandy when we had no power for 14 days, an over-worked and very tired crew from Ohio got our power back. We noticed that the lightbulbs were sort of... buzzing... and were having surges where they'd get brighter for a bit before settling down.

Turns out when they hooked us up to the power they neglected to hook up Neutral. That led to a couple of bad things happening, one being that our well became ground, the other being that the cable TV line tried so very hard to also be ground. Here's the insulation that melted off the cable line:

Full story here:

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[GGJaguar]

 

[GAD]

It could be worse. Somehow.

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

It could be worse. Somehow.

Could be tape!

 

[GAD]

Could be tape!

At least maybe they’d use electrical tape and not something from the plumbing aisle.