[OT - Humour] Piping Monkeys

My apologies in advance. If you put a million monkeys in front of a million computers and gave them CAD software...

Paul

A tourist walked into a pet shop and was looking at the animals on display.

While he was there, another customer walked in and said to the shopkeeper, "I'll have an AutoCAD monkey please."

The shopkeeper nodded, went over to a cage at the other side of the shop and
took out a monkey. He fit a collar and leash, handed it to the customer,
saying, "That'll be $5,000." The customer paid and walked out with his
monkey.

Startled, the tourist went over to the shopkeeper and said, "That was a very
expensive monkey. Most of them are only a few hundred dollars. Why did it
cost so much?"

The shopkeeper answered, "Ah, that monkey can edit 2D piping drawings in
AutoCAD - very fast, accurate, never any mistakes, well worth the money."

The tourist looked at a monkey in another cage. "That one's even more
expensive! $10,000. What does it do?"

"Oh, that one's a PDS monkey. It can create and manipulate 3D piping models.
Process flow diagrams, P&IDs, structural steel, you name it. All the really
technical stuff," said the shopkeeper.

The tourist looked around for a little longer and saw a third monkey in a
cage of its own. The price tag around it's neck read $50,000.

He gasped to the shopkeeper, "That one costs more than all the others put
together! What on earth does it do?"

The shopkeeper replied, "Well, I haven't actually seen it do anything, but
he says he's an engineer." Received on Thu Sep 27 19:47:00 2001