Well, I think "dumber than rocks" is a little bit harsh... how about "engineers aren't grammar/spelling whizzes"? <g> We've got several writers who will cheerfully admit to being hopeless at math <g>

PJ


"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."

--Stardust, Caroline K