Today's reader is a grad student who, when not perusing the day's DC, is studying to be a civil engineer. He is going be a mountain doctor, he tells me. Civil engineering jargon seems to be composed solely of double entendres. So, if you ever hear one say something like \Perform a hardness test on that butt weld and estimate the blow count on that virgin sandy loam with your pocket penetrometer,"" don't laugh; he's serious.
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