Download or read book Mechanical Humour a Collection of Original Anecdotes Connected with Engineering and Mechanics written by John Richards (Mechanical Engineer.) and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Circling the Drain written by Richard E Klein and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is mechanical engineering the career for you? Learn about the glory that awaits you in the mechanical engineering profession... if you can get past all the obstacles. In Circling the Drain, Professor Klein explains the pros and cons of this notable profession with accuracy, cynicism, and humor. You'll enjoy his honest (if sometimes harsh) tongue-in-cheek observations. Find answers to these pressing questions: - Why does everyone think they can do mechanical engineering when they don't have a clue? - How did the engineering terms jerk, slug, nut, and screw become household words? - Why doesn't anyone listen to mechanical engineers? - Where are the mechanical engineering superstars? - Do we really even need mechanical engineers anymore? The lessons learned by Dr. Klein throughout his career apply not only to mechanical engineering, but to life: be creative, embrace the joy in living, and never forget to laugh. Circling the Drain was written for current, former, and wanna-be engineers. Do you have what it takes to be a mechanical engineer?
Download or read book Mechanical Failure written by Joe Zieja and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A smooth-talking ex-sergeant, accustomed to an easygoing peacetime military, unexpectedly rejoins the fleet and finds soldiers preparing for the strangest thing—war. The two hundred years’ (and counting) peace is a time of tranquility that hasn’t been seen since...well, never. Mankind in the Galactic Age had finally conquered war, so what was left for the military to do but drink and barbecue? That’s the kind of military that Sergeant R. Wilson Rogers lived in before he left the fleet to become a smuggler. But it turns out that smuggling is hard. Like getting-arrested-for-dealing-with-pirates-and-forced-back-into-service kind of hard. It doesn’t seem so bad—the military was a perpetual tiki party anyway—but when Rogers returns after only a year away, something has changed. These are soldiers—actual soldiers doing actual soldier things like preparing for a war that Rogers is sure doesn’t exist. Rogers vows to put a stop to all this nonsense—even if it means doing actual work. With an experienced ear for military double-speak, Zieja has created a remarkable and sarcastic adventure.
Download or read book Jokes for Mechanics Funny Mechanics Jokes Puns and Stories written by Chester Croker and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-20 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're looking for mechanic jokes and funny mechanics jokes you've certainly come to the right place. Mechanic jokes are always up to date! Let's face it, it takes a real bright spark to come up with these mechanics jokes and puns. Your brain definitely has to be plugged in a certain type of way to use these jokes. Some of them are old, but some of them are current, and while we don't want to plug them too much, we hope you enjoy our bumper collection of the very best mechanic jokes and puns. You're bound to laugh at them.
Download or read book Mechanical Engineering Humour Thought written by Alfonzo Alerte and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most mechanical engineers work in offices, but depending on the job, they can also visit worksites, which might include oil platforms or skyscrapers. Many engineers have a 9-to-5 schedule, which makes for a nice work-life balance, but overtime work isn't unheard of in this career. Is mechanical engineering the career for you? Learn about the glory that awaits you in the mechanical engineering profession... if you can get past all the obstacles. In this book, the author explains the pros and cons of this notable profession with accuracy, cynicism, and humor. You'll enjoy his honest (if sometimes harsh) tongue-in-cheek observations. Find answers to these pressing questions: - Why does everyone think they can do mechanical engineering when they don't have a clue? - How did the engineering terms jerk, slug, nut, and screw become household words? - Why doesn't anyone listen to mechanical engineers? - Where are the mechanical engineering superstars? Do you have what it takes to be a mechanical engineer?
Download or read book Humour Theory and Stylistic Enquiry written by Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book brings together scholarly chapters on linguistic aspects of humour in literary and non-literary domains and contexts in different parts of the world. Previous scholarly engagements and theoretical postulations on humour and the comic provide veritable resources for reexamining the relationship between linguistic elements and comic sensations on the one hand, and the validity of interpretive humour stylistics on the other hand. Renowned Stylistics scholars, such as Michael Toolan, who writes the volume’s foreword against the backdrop of nearly four decades of scholarly engagement with stylistics, and Katie Wales, who in this volume engages with Charles Dickens, one of the most eminent satirists in English literature, as well as many other European and African authors who have worked ceaselessly in the area of humour and language, weigh in on the topic of language and humour in this volume. Together, they provide a variety of interesting perspectives on the topic, deploying different textual sources from different media and from different regions of the world. Part of the book’s offering includes integrative stylistic approaches to humour in African, European and American written texts, examinations of social media and political humour in Nigeria, Cameroon and Zimbabwe, pragmatics and humorous stance-taking, incongruity as comedy in works of fiction, and a unified levels of linguistic analysis approach to the investigation of humour. This book will be of interest to academics and students of Linguistics, Stylistics, Communications and Media Studies, and Humour Studies. Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria
Download or read book Mechanical Humour written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of Mechanical Science Arts Manufactures and Miscellaneous Knowledge Comprising the Pure Sciences of Mathematics Geometry Arithmetic Algebra c the Mixed Sciences of Mechanics Hydrostatics Pneumatics Optics and Astronomy Experimental Philosophy by Alexander Jamieson written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neo Victorian Humour written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume highlights humour’s crucial role in shaping historical re-visions of the long nineteenth century, through modes ranging from subtle irony, camp excess, ribald farce, and aesthetic parody to blackly comic narrative games. It analyses neo-Victorian humour’s politicisation, its ideological functions and ethical implications across varied media, including fiction, drama, film, webcomics, and fashion. Contemporary humour maps the assumed distance between postmodernity and its targeted nineteenth-century referents only to repeatedly collapse the same in a seemingly self-defeating nihilistic project. This collection explores how neo-Victorian humour generates empathy and effective socio-political critique, dispensing symbolic justice, but also risks recycling the past’s invidious ideologies under the politically correct guise of comic debunking, even to the point of negating laughter itself. "This rich and innovative collection invites us to reflect on the complex and various deployments of humour in neo-Victorian texts, where its consumers may wish at times that they could swallow back the laughter a scene or event provokes. It covers a range of approaches to humour utilised by neo-Victorian writers, dramatists, graphic novelists and filmmakers – including the deliberately and pompously unfunny, the traumatic, the absurd, the ribald, and the frankly distasteful – producing a richly satisfying anthology of innovative readings of ‘canonical’ neo-Victorian texts as well as those which are potential generic outliers. The collection explores what is funny in the neo-Victorian and who we are laughing at – the Victorians, as we like to imagine them, or ourselves, in ways we rarely acknowledge? This is a celebration of the parodic playfulness of a wide range of texts, from fiction to fashion, whilst offering a trenchant critique of the politics of postmodern laughter that will appeal to those working in adaptation studies, gender and queer studies, as well as literary and cultural studies more generally." - Prof. Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania, Australia
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Humour History and Methodology written by Daniel Derrin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook addresses the methodological problems and theoretical challenges that arise in attempting to understand and represent humour in specific historical contexts across cultural history. It explores problems involved in applying modern theories of humour to historically-distant contexts of humour and points to the importance of recognising the divergent assumptions made by different academic disciplines when approaching the topic. It explores problems of terminology, identification, classification, subjectivity of viewpoint, and the coherence of the object of study. It addresses specific theories, together with the needs of specific historical case-studies, as well as some of the challenges of presenting historical humour to contemporary audiences through translation and curation. In this way, the handbook aims to encourage a fresh exploration of methodological problems involved in studying the various significances both of the history of humour and of humour in history.
Download or read book Greatest Mechanic in Progress written by S. A. Mechanic Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cool Gift idea for UNDER 10 DOLLARS ! Awesome Funny Notebook for Those Preparing to Be The Greatest Mechanics, Perfect Gift For Any Time of the Year. Features : ✅ 120 pages ✅ 6"x9" (15x23 cm.) Perfect to carry everywhere ✅ High Quality Lined interior with white paper ✅ Matte Vintage Finish Cover for an elegant look and feel
Download or read book The Psychology of Military Humour written by J. Nazareth and published by Lancer. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the most comprehensive work on the subject, and perhaps the only one that focuses on military humor. Everyone enjoys humor, and military humor has a particular appeal because it is created in an environment that offers the maximum opportunity for its exploitation. It will also make the general reader familiar with the military milieu and the working of the military mind. The student of psychology should find this book useful because it presents the difficult subject of humor in general, in a comprehensive and readable form. However, this book should prove most useful to the service officer, for whom the pleasure of the humor will be enhanced because familiarity with the military environment. It will also give a new dimension in the exercise of military command by the use of humor to mitigate the stresses and strains of peace and war.
Download or read book The Book Monthly written by James Milne and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Thousand and One Anecdotes written by Alfred Henry Miles and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Humour in British First World War Literature written by Emily Anderson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how humorous depictions of the Great War helped to familiarise, domesticate and tame the conflict. In contrast to the well-known First World War literature that focuses on extraordinary emotional disruption and the extremes of war, this study shows other writers used humour to create a gentle, mild amusement, drawing on familiar, popular genres and forms used before 1914. Emily Anderson argues that this humorous literature helped to transform the war into quotidian experience. Based on little-known primary material uncovered through detailed archival research, the book focuses on works that, while written by celebrated authors, tend not to be placed in the canon of Great War literature. Each chapter examines key examples of literary texts, ranging from short stories and poetry, to theatre and periodicals. In doing so, the book investigates the complex political and social significance of this tame style of humour.
Download or read book The Function of Humour in Roman Verse Satire written by Maria Plaza and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Plaza sets out to analyse the function of humour in the Roman satirists Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. Her starting point is that satire is driven by two motives, which are to a certain extent opposed: to display humour, and to promote a serious moral message. She argues that, while the Roman satirist needs humour for his work's aesthetic merit, his proposed message suffers from the ambivalence that humour brings with it. Her analysis shows that this paradox is not only socio-ideological but also aesthetic, forming the ground for the curious, hybrid nature of Roman satire.
