An Irish supervisor wanted to do all he could to avoid hiring an Italian
guy. So during the interview he asks:
"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.
"Eh, you gota no brain?
Tree and
tree and
tree make-a 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 itsa dirty now. So, itsa
dirty tree, and
dirty tree, and
dirty tree. Datsa 99."
The boss is getting worried that he's actually going
to 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-a 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 dog came
along an-a he crapa by each-a tree. So now youa got
dirty tree and a turd,
dirty tree and a turd, and
dirty tree and a turd,
datsa make-a one hundred.
So, when-a I start?
