[2893] in Humor
HUMOR: The Dead Engineer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Thu Aug 12 12:17:51 1999
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: abennett@alum.mit.edu
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:15:46 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
>A Dead Engineer
>
> An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates. St.. Peter
> checks his dossier and says, "Ah, you're an engineer--you're
> in the wrong place."
>
> So the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in.
>
> Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level
> of comfort in hell, and starts designing and building
> improvements.
>
> After a while, they've got air conditioning and flush toilets
> and escalators, and the engineer is a pretty popular guy.
>
> One day God calls Satan up on the telephone and says with a
> sneer, "So, how's it going down there in hell?" Satan replies,
>
> "Hey, things are going great. We've got air conditioning and
> flush toilets and escalators, and there's no telling what this
> engineer is going to come up with next."
>
> God replies, "What??? You've got an engineer? That's a
> mistake! He should never have gotten down there; send him up
> here."
>
> Satan says, "No way. I like having an engineer on the staff,
> and I'm keeping him."
>
> God says, "Send him back up here or I'll sue."
>
> Satan laughs uproariously and answers, "Yeah, right. And
> just where are YOU going to get a lawyer?"
