"Sero Sed Serio"
Engineers!
March 2009
Many years ago during the height of the French Revolution a Countess, a Politician and an Engineer, all enemies of the Revolution, were about to be executed on Madame La Guillotine.
First with his head on the block was the Politician but when the lever was released nothing happened and convinced that this was some kind of divine intervention the revolutionary guard released the politician.
Next up was the Countess and she too placed her head on the block. The lever was forcefully pulled back but again nothing happened and again fearing the hand of the Lord, the revolutionaries released the Countess.
Finally came the Engineer and as he was ushered over to the device he glanced over at the release mechanism, "Wait a minute," he says "I think I can see what the problem is..."