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- Godiva was a lady who through Coventry did ride
- to show to all the villagers her lovely lily-white hide.
- The most observant man of all, an Engineer of course,
- was the only man to notice that Godiva rode a horse.
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- otadge:
- We are, we are, we are, we are, we are the Engineers.
- We can, we can, we can, we can demolish forty beers.
- Drink rum, drink rum, drink rum my friend and come along with us,
- for we don't give a damn for any damn man who don't give a damn for us!
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- She said, "I've come a long, long way, and I will go as far
- for the man who takes me from this horse and leads me to a bar."
- The men who took her from her steed and stood her to a beer
- were a bleary eyed surveyor and a drunken Engineer.
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- otadge
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- My father was a miner on the Northern Malamute.
- My mother was a madam in a house of ill repute.
- The last time that I heard from them, these words rang in my ears:
- "Get out of here you son of a bitch, and join the Engineers!"
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- otadge
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- An artsman and an Engineer once found a gallon can
- Said the artsman "Match me drink for drink and prove that you're a man."
- They drank three drinks, the artsman died, his face was turning green,
- But the engineer drank on and said, "It's only gasoline."
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- otadge
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- A maiden and an Engineer were sitting in the park
- the Engineer was working on some research after dark.
- His scientific method was a marvel to observe ...
- while his right hand wrote the figures, his left hand traced the curves.
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- The chemists and the physicists went out to have some fun.
- They went down to the taverns where the fiery liquors run.
- But all they found were empties, for the Engineers had come,
- and traded all their HP's in for gallon kegs of rum.
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- otadge
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- Now Venus was a statue made entirely of stone.
- Without a stitch upon her, she was naked as a bone.
- On seeing that see had no clothes, an Engineer discoursed:
- "Why the damn thing's only concrete and it should be reinforced!"
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- Sir Francis Drake and all his ships set out for Calais Bay.
- They'd heard the Spanish rum fleet was headed up that way.
- But the Engineers had beat them by a night and half a day
- and though as drunk as hooligans, you still could hear them say:
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- otadge
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- I happened once upon a maid whose eyes were full of fire,
- Her physical endowments would have made your hands perspire,
- She shocked me when she told me that she never had been kissed,
- Her boyfriend was a tired Engineering physicist.
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- Now Caesar went to Egypt at the age of fifty-three,
- But Cleopatra's blood was warm, her heart was young and free,
- And every night when Julius said goodnight at three o'clock,
- There was a Roman Engineer just waiting 'round the block.
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- otadge
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- An Engineer once came to school so drunk and very late,
- Carrying a load that you'd expect to ship by freight,
- The only things that held him up and kept him on his course,
- Were the boundary condition and electromotive force.
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- My mother peddles opium, my father's on the dole,
- My sister used to walk the streets, but now she's on parole,
- My brother runs a restaurant with bedrooms in the rear,
- But they won't even speak to me 'cause I'm an engineer.
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- otadge
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- Now you've heard our story and you know we're Engineers,
- And like all jolly fellows we can down our whiskey clear,
- We drink to every other guy who comes from far and near,
- 'Cause we know damn sure that we all are a hell of an Engineer.
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- otadge
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- This is the entire song as far as I know.
- However it is open to revision.
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- Try and picture a number of quasi-intoxicated Engineers trying
- to sing this and you'll realize why they seldom get past the chorus.
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- Larry W. Borsato
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- ( Pining for the fiords in wonderful Waterloo )
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