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- Paddy wants a job, but the foreman won’t hire him until he passes a little maths test.
- Here is your first question, the foreman says. “Without using numbers, represent the number 9.”
- “Without numbers?” Paddy says? “Dat’s easy.” And proceeds to draw three trees.
- “What’s this?” the boss asks.
- “Have you no brain? Tree and tree plus tree makes 9” says Paddy.
- “Fair enough,” says the boss. “Here’s your second question. Use the same rules, but this time the number is 99.”
- Paddy stares into space for a while, then picks up the picture that he has just drawn and makes a smudge on each tree.. “Ere ye go.”
- The boss scratches his head and says, “How on earth do you get that to represent 99?”
- “Each of them trees is dirty now. So, it’s dirty tree, and dirty tree, plus dirty tree. Dat makes 99.”
- The boss is getting worried that he’s going to actually have to hire Paddy, so he says, “All right, last question. Same rules again, but represent the number 100.”
- Paddy stares into space some more, then he picks up the picture again and makes a little mark at the base of each tree and says, “Ere ye go. One hundred.”
- The boss looks at the attempt. “You must be nuts if you think that represents a hundred!” Paddy leans forward and points to the marks at the base of each tree and whispers,
- “A little dog came along and pooped by each tree. So now you got dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd, and dirty tree and a turd, which makes ONE HUNDRED!”
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