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A Cajun
Shrimper wants
a job cleaning
up the oil
spill, but the
BP 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
Cajun says,
'Dat is easy.'
And proceeds
to draw three
trees.
'What's
this?' the
boss asks.
'Ave you got
no brain? Tree
and tree and
tree make
nine,' says
the Cajun.
'Fair enough,'
says the boss.
'Here's your
second
question. Use
the same
rules, but
this time the
number is 99.'
The Cajun
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, and
dirty tree.
Dat is 99.'
The boss is
getting
worried that
he's going to
actually have
to hire this
Cajun, so he
says, 'All
right, last
question. Same
rules again,
but
represent the
number 100.'
The Cajun
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 Cajun
leans forward
and points to
the marks at
the base of
each tree and
says, '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
make one
hundred.'
The Cajun
is now the new
supervisor.
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