An Irishman wants a job, but the foreman won't hire
him until he passes a little math’s test.
Here is your first question,
the foreman said. "Without using numbers, represent the number
9."
"Without numbers?" The Irishman says? "Dat is
easy." And proceeds to draw three trees.
What's this?" the boss asks.
"Have you
ain't got no brain? Tree and tree plus tree makes 9" says the
Irishman.
"Fair enough," says the boss. "Here's your
second question. Use the same rules, but this time the number is 99."
The
Irishman stares into space for a while, then picks up the picture that he has
just drawn and makes a smudge on each tree... "Ere you go."
The boss scratches his head and says, "How on
earth do you get that to represent 99?"
"Each of da 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 this Irishman, so he says, "All right, last question. Same rules
again, but represent the number 100."
The Irishman 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 you go. One hundred."
The boss
looks at the attempt. "You must be nuts if you think that represents a
hundred!"
The Irishman leans forward and points to the marks at the
base of each tree and whispers, "A little dog come along and poop 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!"
The Irishman is
now head of Ryan Air.
Enjoy, I can remember seeing this when at Secondary School, some 50+ years ago
Len
