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HUMOR:Fwd: New York Math
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (South Of Heaven)
Sun Apr 8 16:10:48 2001
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Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 16:12:27 -0400
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> If'n yooz aint no noo yawka, den yooz aint gonna
> unerstan dis here ting;
>
> but its about time youz loined how ta tawk right.
> If youz iz a noo yawka,
> den you knowz wad im tawkin about. So, go getta cupa
> kawfee an looka dis mat test.
>
>
> New York Math
> A construction site boss was interviewing men for
> a job, when along came a New Yorker. "I'm not
> hiring any wise-ass New Yorker," the foreman
> thought to himself, so he made up a test hoping
> that the New Yorker wouldn't be able to answer
> the questions, and he'd be able to refuse him
> the job without getting into an argument.
>
> "Here's your first question," the foreman said.
> "Without using numbers, represent the number 9.
>
> "Without numbiz?" the New Yorker says.
> "Dat's easy," and proceeds to draw three trees.
>
> "What's this?" the boss asks.
>
> "Ain't you got no brains? Tree 'n tree n' tree
> makes nine."
>
> "Fair enough," says the boss.
>
> "Here is your second question. Use the same
> rules, but this time the number is 99."
>>
> The New Yorker stares into space for a while,
> then picks up the picture that he has just drawn
> and makes a smudge on each tree. "Dare ya go."
>
> The boss scratches his head and says, "How
> on earth do you get that to represent 99?"
>
> "Each a da tree's is dirty now! So it's dirty
> tree, 'n dirty tree, 'n dirty tree. Dat's 99."
>
> The boss is getting worried he's going to have to
> hire him, so he says, "Alright, last question.
> Same rules again, but represent the number 100."
>
> Mr. New York stares into space again, then he
> picks up the picture again and makes a little
> mark at the base of each tree, and says,
> "Dare ya go. A hundred."
>
> The boss looks at the attempt. "You must be
> nuts if you think that represents a hundred."
>
> The New Yorker leans forward and points to the
> marks at the tree bases, and says.......................
>
>
> ARE YOU READY FOR THIS?
> ***
> ****
> *****
> ******
> *******
> ********
> *********
>
> "A little dog comes along and craps by each tree,
> so now you've got :
> dirty tree an' a turd,
> dirty tree an' a turd,
> an' dirty tree an' a turd,
> which makes one hundred. When do I freakin' start?"
