We're getting old, folks...

("AES" wrote)
[snip]
God creates world, takes four people up on mountain top to show them what
She's created & says, "OK, what do you think of it?"

[snip]
Fourth person (after taking an even longer look at what God has done):
"I'd like to do that too . . ."

God: "Ah, you shall follow the highest calling of all: The Engineer.
Using all the knowledge of the Scientist; all the economic understanding
of the Businessman; all the appreciation of elegance and beauty of the
Artist -- your mission is to carry on the work of Creation."


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Words and music by Peggy Seeger - 1970
[various verses snipped...catchy tune]

I'M GONNA BE AN ENGINEER

When I was a little girl I wished I was a boy
I tagged along behind the gang and wore my corduroys.
Everybody said I only did it to annoy
But I was gonna be an engineer

Mamma said, "Why can't you be a lady?
Your duty is to make me the mother of a pearl
Wait until you're older, dear
And maybe you'll be glad that you're a girl.

Then Jimmy came along and we set up a conjugation
We were busy every night with loving recreation
I spent my days at work so he could get an education
And now he's an engineer!

Every time I turn around there's something else to do
Cook a meal or mend a sock or sweep a floor or two
Listening to Jimmy Young - it makes me want to spew
I was gonna be an engineer.

Well, I listened to my mother and I joined a typing pool
Listened to my lover and I put him through his school
If I listen to the boss, I'm just a bloody fool
And an underpaid engineer

I been a sucker ever since I was a baby
As a daughter, as a mother, as a lover, as a dear
But I'll fight them as a woman, not a lady
I'll fight them as an engineer!


Montblack made out of ticky-tacky