4 men and their dogs

[Ghost in the Machine]

4 men and their dogs


Four men, an Engineer, an Accountant, a Chemist and a Government Worker were bragging about how smart their dogs were.
To show off, the Engineer called to his dog and said, "T-Square, do your stuff."

T- square trotted over to a desk, took out some paper and a pen and promptly drew a circle, a square and a triangle. Everyone agreed that was pretty smart. But the Accountant said his dog could do better. He called his dog and said, "Slide Rule, do your stuff."

Slide Rule went out into the kitchen and returned with a dozen cookies. He divided them into 4 equal piles of 3 cookies each. Everyone agreed that was good. But the Chemist said his dog could do better. He called his dog and said, "Measure, do your stuff."

Measure got up, walked over to the fridge, took out a quart of milk, got a 10 ounce glass from the cupboard and poured exactly 8 ounces without spilling a drop. Everyone agreed that was good. Then the three men turned to the Government Worker and said, "What can your dog do?"

The Government Worker called to his dog and said, "Coffee Break, do your stuff."

Coffee Break jumped to his feet, ate the cookies, drank the milk, took a dump on the paper, humped the other three dogs, claimed he injured his back while doing so, filed a grievance report for unsafe working conditions, put in for Worker's Compensation and went home on sick leave.

[senseandsensibility]

1. uh, not only is this joke long winded and unfunny

it's anti-union and anti-worker.

[Fierce]

3. Yup. Beat me to it.

It has no place here.

[Ghost in the Machine]

4. get a life

the fist time I ever read it was in apprenticeship school in the pipefitters union and the government worker was replaced with "pipefitter"

here's a dollar, go find a sense of humor...

[senseandsensibility]

5. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree

Maybe the atmosphere has changed in the past six years living under the chimp administration. Things used to be lighter and funnier, and it used to easier to laugh at oneself. But with our very lives at risk, making fun of the underdog isn't my cup of tea. There are much more worthy targets.

[Ghost in the Machine]

8. I guess I can see where you're coming from... sort of...

Sometimes it's a struggle to find anything to laugh at these days.

:hi:

[senseandsensibility]

10. Thanks for trying to understand my point

and I'm sorry if I was a bit blunt in my first post.

[Ghost in the Machine]

13. No problem

sorry I was a little blunt too, I just respond in kind to the way I percieve a reply to me...

No harm, no foul....

[jkshaw]

2. Hey

Reagan's joke.

[provis99]

6. is this a joke from "Atlas Shrugged"?

[Ghost in the Machine]

9. ??

I don't know, I got it in an email, and like I said, the first time I heard it was over 20 years ago...

[JVS]

12. LOL!

[glennont]

7. I liked it, jeez, I've seen worse up here nt

[jeff30997]

11. Lol!

Funny!:)

[ConsAreLiars]

14. And the lesson you want us to draw from your parable is?

Well, pretty obvious. You either got suckered or you think you can sucker the readers here.

[Mutineer]

15. I thought it was very funny

some people here need sense of humor transplants.

[spacelady]

16. My husband is a Chemical Engineer who has in the past

worked for the Government & I thought the joke was pretty funny. I didn't get the Accountant part. :}

[jkshaw]

17. The slide rule dates it

In fact, it's got to be way older than 20 years, Ghost. Slide rules were buried decades ago. I keep my husband's on the shelf as a curiosity. And drawing software has killed off the T-square, too.

Reagan was notorious for resurrecting ancient jokes, and for his penchant for union busting. There was something about an air traffic controllers' strike, as I recall. Reagan put the kibosh on it, whatever it was.

The three or four men and their dogs was a basic formula in so many jokes. I even heard it applied to the WPA. Remember the WPA? 1930s-1940s. Depression era. I was still young, but my foster parents thought whatever the heck it was about was uproariously funny (they had "real" jobs).

[spacelady]

18. Joked about or not, the WPA got a few things done. I really wish

the government was interested in a few projects on the home front and let people have a hand up like back then. We were cruising along just fine until the chimp got his banana-stained hands on the controls.