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In reply to the discussion: What's your favorite "walks into a bar" joke? [View all]DFW
(60,376 posts)They sit at a table and get drunk, and not a little morose. The talk comes, somehow, to the true profession of God.
The painter says that God has to be a painter. "How do you figure?" ask the other two.
"No one but a painter could dream up the beauty of a woman's face," he explains.
"Not so," says the sculptor. "God is a sculptor" he says. "How do you figure?" ask the other two.
"No one but a sculptor could design and execute the beautiful contour of a woman's body," he says.
"You're both wrong," says the civil engineer. "God is a civil engineer. A lousy failure of a civil engineer," he continues.
The painter and the sculptor are at a loss for words. Finally, one of them asks how the civil engineer arrived at his conclusion.
"Who else would be so stupid as to put a waste water canal right through the middle of an amusement park?"