the lowly engineer

OK, last one and I'll leave it alone:

"Indeed the engineer does bungle language deplorably. He makes a fetish of efficiency, yet he shows no regard for the effective use of one of his most important tools -- the pen; he believes devoutly in accuracy, yet he employs a weapon of precision as carelessly as a small boy handles a gun." ~ T.A. Rickard

This is how all technical writing texts need to be written. Analogy, metaphor, whit, and humor. Can you imagine Markel or Lannon trying to pull this off?

I'm going to drop this line on my WRT 407 engineers next fall -- all 50 of them.