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Re:Iron Ring by theg5prank on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @12:11PM (#5668870)
I think you may be missing the point. These rings are given to graduating engineers not as a beautiful object of congratulations for their achievements, but as a token designed to remind them of the burden they have taken on.
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Re:Iron Ring by adambard on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @03:49PM (#5670317)
[This poem](http://www.tricolour.net/som.html) is part of the Canadian ceremony (or was at mine, anyhow), and describes the aforementioned burden. It may be because it strokes an engineers' ego a bit, but I enjoy it.
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Re:Iron Ring by VLM on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @05:14PM (#5670840)
Ah so the IT equivalent would be something like a ceremonial pager duty model or something?
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