Old one but..........
An Italian workman wants a job, but the foreman won't hire him until
he passes a little math test "Here's your first question," the foreman said.
"Without using numbers, represent the number 9." "Without numbers?"
the Italian says, "Datsa easy." and he proceeds to draw three trees.
"What's this?" the boss asks. "Ave you got no brain? Tree and tree
and tree makea nine," says the Italian. "Fair enough," says the
boss.
"Here's your second question. Use the same rules, but this time the
number is 99." The Italian 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 isa dirty now. So, it's dirty
tree, and dirty tree, and dirty tree. Datsa a 99."
The boss is getting worried that he's going to actually have to hire
this Italian, so he says, "All right, last question. Same rules
again, but represent the number 100." The Italian 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 attemp "You must be nuts if you think that represents a hundred!"
The Italian leans forward and points to the marks at the base of
each tree and says, "A little doga come along and poopa by eacha tree. So
now you gota dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd, and dirty
tree and a turd, data makea one hundred.
So, when I a start ?b)
