HI Gang, just a quick drive by. Need to put the boys to bed.
GoDaddy, if you need a snark release you can tell a nurse joke.
I promise never to pay you back with an architect joke. Really. Promise.
I've never done anything like that in my entire life.
Have a good night everybody! See ya around.
That's the thing... There aren't very many funny architect jokes hanging around. Most of the ones out there are so old (how old are they?) that I heard 'em when I was in school, and they weren't very haha funny then either. Basically they're there to make the engineers laugh, and we all know what kind of sense of humor your typical engineer has... I guess you could argue the point that some people laugh at some of the buildings we design - that those buildings ARE the joke...
Sample engineer joke:
Q: How can you tell if an engineer's an extrovert?
A: He's staring at YOUR shoes while he's talking to you.
Back to architect's jokes - & the idea that the buildings themselves become the jokes...
The goofiest thing I've ever designed was a salt-storage building. Basically it was a glorified metal shed - but the state of Tennessee required that the drawings had to be signed and sealed by an architect, so there ya go... Not very glamorous, and not much to look at, but it kept me busy and off the streets for a couple of weeks.
The most arcanely specialized building I've ever designed was a parachute-drying tower with an associated parachute-folding building for an air force base. Basically the tower was a big rectangular box 25' x25', 50' or so tall that they'd hang the parachutes from the structure at the top, with big industrial fans to blow air through to dry the things. And then they'd take 'em down and fold them into the parachute packs in the side building. Repeat process. Oh yeah, it was requested by an officer to add a toilet room to the side of the folding building, which I guess had never EVER been anticipated before, judging by the amount of bureaucratic red tape that brought up. I guess no parachute-folders had ever had to use the bathroom before that point. It was some retiring colonel's idea - I guess he should have known better. But what did he care? - he was out of there early on in the project...
Final point of the story - that requested addition of a single small toilet room to the little parachute-folding building added more than 4 months to the overall project's schedule to work through the system. Some of the other portions of the project were very vital things - additions to maintenance hangars, modernizing the air traffic control tower, etc.
One simple toilet room (less than $10,000 worth of work) held up almost $15 million (for the overall project) for 4 1/2 months.
I can laugh at it now, but let me tell you, those 4 1/2 months were way more stressful than they should have been.
so it's been ordered and the car will be finished tomorrow evening. If it falls apart again, I'm just going to drive the darn thing into a ditch and be done with it.
