I got bored today and wanted to put this up.
Big the Cat wants this one job really badly. But the foreman won't hire him until he passes a little math test.
The foreman looks at him. "Ok, here is your first question." he said. Now without using numbers, represent the number 9."
"No numbers?" Big says. "Dat is easy." and he procedes to draw three trees.
"What's this?" the boss asks.
"Have you no brain? Tree and tree and tree makes nine." says Big.
"Fair enough." says the boss. "Here's your second question. Use the same rules, but this time the number is 99."
Big stares into space for a while, then picks up the picture that he has drawn and makes small scribbles on each tree. "Here you go."
The boss scratches his head and says, "How 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 is going to actually have to hire this fat cat, so he says, "All right, last question. Same rules again, but represent the number 100."
The cat stares into space once more, then picks up the picture again and makes a little mark at the base of each tree and says, "Here you go. One hundred."
The boss looks at the attempt. "You must be nuts if you think that represents a hundred!"
Big leans forward and points to the marks at the base of each tree and says, "Froggy came along and crapped by each tree. So now you got a dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd, which makes one hundred."
The boss was shocked.
"So, when I start?"
heh, I think I maded Big a bit too smart. Anyways did you get this joke?