A World Without Engineers

        Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, on the planet Zovirax, there was an evil king, King Syphilis, who was mighty pleased with himself, for he had just banished all the engineers on the planet to work in the Pixie Stick Powder mines on the moons of Gluteus. 'You see,' he told his sycophantic servants and lackeys, 'I have solved two problems with one simple executive order. I have rid the …

…of Gluteus.'         But it was too late, because the engineers so enjoyed having free time that every last one refused to return, and they were all killed in a freak mining accident.         So the moral of the story, boys and girls, is that engineers are a very important part of out everyday lives, and, engineers although smelly and dirty like pigs in a pig pen, you should not banish them to slave labor camps.