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Don’t call it boring
A story often told by civil engineers is that if you looked up ‘Boring’ in the Yellow Pages, it used to say ‘See Civil Engineers’. Of course, this was in recognition of their expertise at making big holes in the ground. Civil engineers didn’t like to mention that the joke wore thin, partly because, as the name implies, they’re very polite, and partly because abrasion monitoring is more of a mechanical engineering job.
In 1996, though, at their request, the entry was finally removed. Today, the Yellow Pages itself is being expunged, with the last printed copies going out in January 2019. But if there was a Yellow Pages for computers it would say, ‘Civil Engineers – see Dell OptiPlex’.…
