LifeinAsia - 8:02 pm on Jul 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

engineer who says, "Yes, honey, that dress does make your butt look bigger..." is just being honest but is probably not initiating a positive social exchange. ;)

An engineer would NEVER make a comment like that without first taking multiple measurements (in that dress and others, for comparative analysis), putting all the data in a spreadsheet, generating 3-D graphs from different angles, and then deriving and then programming the equations to compare the "biggness" between the different dresses.

THEN, after making such a statement, he would proceed to give a PowerPoint presentation backing up his assertion with 14 slides of bulleted talking points and summarized data.