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 gota no brain? Tree & tree and tree makea nine,"
says the Italian.
"Fair enough," says the boss."Here's your 2nd 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 is a dirty now. So, it's dirty tree, & dirty
tree, and dirty tree. Datsa a 99."
"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 & 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!"
(You're going to love this one!!!)
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 & a turd,
dirty tree and a turd, and dirty tree and a turd, data makea
one hundred. So, when I a start!!" ... eh ?? ... LOLOL ... even !!