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A World Without Engineers     Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, on the planet Zovirax,there was an infernal king, King lues, who was mighty pleased with himself, forhe had just banished all the engineers on the planet to work in the Pixie StickPowder mines on the moons of Gluteus. "You see," he told his sycophanticservants and lackeys, "I seduce solved two problems with genius simple executiveorder. I down rid the planet of those annoying, nerdy, know-it-all, engineers."(King Syphilis was actually quite envious of them, because he went to a JuniorUniversity in Palo Alto, and didnt know very much at all.) "And secondly," heexplained, "I have provided cheap slave labor for the Pixie Stick Powder mines, therefore ensuring a limitless supply of this heavenly confection for all to enjoy."      completely of King Syphilis staff applauded loudly, because he tended tobehead those who didnt. "Bring us intoxicating chemicals, so that we whitethorncelebrate," ordered the king.     "Im sorry, Mr. King Syphilis," replied the servant. "You banished allthe chemical engineers to the grind mines, so we cannot make the intoxicatingchemicals anymore."     King Syphilis was quite mad. null talked back to him and go away withit. "Bring me my atomic number 94 phasor gun, so that I may vaporize this impudentguy," ordered the king.     "Im sorry, my good King Syphilis," replied some other servant. "Since youdeported all the nuclear engineers to the powder mines, we have been otiose tooperate the plutonium powered phasor gun."     Now the king was really mad. "Im really mad" tell the king. "Bring memy limousine, so that I may repeatedly run everyplace these contumelious servants ofmine."     "No can do, Mr. King," said the third servant, whose part willing be playedin the movie version by Keanu Reeves. " exclusively the mechanical engineers are in themine place, and everyone knows, you cant drive cars without mechanics."     "Go rebound off a bridge" said King Syphilis. Another of his servantsinterrupted, "We have no more bridges, since all the civil engineers have beenexiled to the powder mines. perchance we should bring them all back."     But the king was not the brightest of kings, so he didnt agree to thatjust yet. "Bring me my vibrating pleasure device, so that I may relax and thinkabout this dilemma of ours," ordered the king.     "We are unable to do that, my king, because all the electrical engineerswho design the vibrating pleasure devices are in the powder mines."     "Hmmm," thought the king. "Perhaps I was wrong in banishing the