A
Newfie wants a job, but the foreman won't hire him until he passes a
little math test.
Here
is your first question, the foreman said. "Without using
numbers, represent the number 9."
"Without
numbers?" The Newfie 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 Newfie.
"Fair
enough," says the boss. "Here's your second
question.
Use the same rules, but this time the number is 99."
The
Newfie 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
Newfie , so he says, "All right, last question. Same rules
again, but represent the number 100."
The
Newfie 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
Newfie 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
Newfie is the new supervisor!
