red again - no surprise -- you have to know about roughnecks to get this joke
In a recent government experiment, an Architect, an Engineer, and a Roughneck were rounded up.
Each was put in a private room and given three steel ball bearings.
They were instructed to utilize their background to design a useful project. After an hour, the architect was interviewed.
He had stacked his balls one on top of each other.
In explanation, he said, "This is the time tested design the material warrants. It's beauty and elegance dates all the way back to the Roman columns ".
In the engineers room, he had stacked his bearings in a pyramid. "This design will take 10.3 on the Richter scale, a cat 5 hurricane, and is fire resistant. It is structurally sound and can be built at low cost", he explained.
When the officials entered the roughnecks room, they found him leanin' against the wall with his hands in his pockets and no bearings to be seen. "Where is your project?" they asked. "Well, I lost one, broke one, and the other one's in my lunch box. I'm carrying it home."
Snow on a Texas night at my house rare but beautiful-God Bless America
