Topic: NEW MATH
Gryphyn's photo
Thu 01/18/07 08:51 AM
An recent Italian immigrant to New York wanted a job, but the foreman
refused to hire him until he passed a little maths test.
"Here's your first question," the foreman said. "Without using numbers,
represent the number 9."
"Without numbers?" the Italian said, "Dat is easy." And he proceeded to
draw three trees.
"What's this?" the boss asked.
"Ave you got no brain? Tree and tree and tree make nine," said the
Italian.
"Fair enough," said the boss. "Here's your second question. Use the same
rules, but this time the number is 99."
The Italian stared into space for a while, then picked up the picture
that he had just drawn and made a smudge on each tree. "Ere you go."
The boss scratched his head and said, "How on earth do you get that to
represent 99?"

northern_englishman: "Each of da trees is dirty now. So, it's dirty
tree, and dirty tree, and dirty tree. Dat is 99."
"All right, last question. Same rules again, but represent the number
100."
The Italian man stared into space some more, then he picked up the
picture again and made a little mark at the base of each tree and says,
"Ere you go. One hundred."
The boss looked at the attempt. "You must be nuts if you think that
represents a hundred!"
The Italian leant forward and pointed to the marks at the base of each
tree and said, "A little dog come along and he crap by each tree. So now
you got dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd, and dirty tree and
a turd, dat make one hundred. So, when I start?"

jerbear1966's photo
Thu 01/18/07 09:27 AM
LOL! Good one G.

TxsGal3333's photo
Thu 01/18/07 11:16 AM
LMAO

no photo
Thu 01/18/07 01:57 PM
roflmao

Fanta46's photo
Thu 01/18/07 02:02 PM
good one