Joke: A Little Math Test

A Norwegian fella wants a job, but the Dean won’t hire him until he passes a little math test.  Here is your first question, the Dean said. “Without using numbers, represent the number 9.”

—“Without numbers?” The Norwegian says, “Dat’s easy.” and proceeds to draw three trees.

—“What’s this?” the Dean asks.

—“Vot you got no brain? Tree and tree and tree make nine,” says the Norwegian.

–-”Fair enough,” says the Dean. “Here’s your second question. Use the same rules, but this time the number is 99.”

The Norwegian stares into space for a while, then picks up the picture that he has just drawn and makes a smudge on each tree. “Dar ya go.”

The Dean 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 Dean is getting worried that he’s going to actually have to hire this Norwegian, so he says, “All right last question. Same rules again, but represent the number 100.”

The Norwegian fella 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, “Dar ya go. Von hundred.”

The Dean looks at the attempt. “You must be nuts if you think that represents a hundred!”

The Norwegian leans forward and points to the marks at the base of each tree and says, “A little dog come along and pooped by each tree So now you got dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd, and dirty tree and a turd, vich makes von hundred.”

—”So, ven do I start?”

I”ll bet this Norwegian was promoted to General Manager in less than a year.  Good Day.

Source: Bits & Pieces

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Pioneer Radio Broadcaster, Paul Harvey is Dead

Today is a sad day for radio.  Paul Harvey, the news commentator and talk-radio pioneer whose staccato style made him one of the nation’s most familiar voices, died Saturday in Arizona, according to ABC Radio Networks. He was 90.

Harvey died surrounded by family at a hospital in Phoenix, where he had a winter home, said Louis Adams, a spokesman for ABC Radio Networks, where Harvey worked for more than 50 years. No cause of death was immediately available.

Harvey had been forced off the air for several months in 2001 because of a virus that weakened a vocal cord. But he returned to work in Chicago and was still active as he passed his 90th birthday. His death comes less than a year after that of his wife and longtime producer, Lynne.

“My father and mother created from thin air what one day became radio and television news,” Paul Harvey Jr. said in a statement. “So in the past year, an industry has lost its godparents and today millions have lost a friend.”

Known for his resonant voice and trademark delivery of The Rest of the Story, Harvey had been heard nationally since 1951, when he began his “News and Comment” for ABC Radio Networks.

In 1976, Harvey began broadcasting his anecdotal descriptions of the lives of famous people. The Rest of the Story started chronologically, with the person’s identity revealed at the end. The stories were an attempt to capture “the heartbeats behind the headlines.” Much of the research and writing was done by his son, Paul Jr.

At the peak of his career, Harvey reached more than 24 million listeners on more than 1,200 radio stations and charged $30,000 to give a speech. His syndicated column was carried by 300 newspapers.

For years I listened to Paul Harvey’s daily broadcasts which were aired in Panama by the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS)  located at the former Panama Canal Zone.  The way he spoke and the contents of his program were unique.  A brilliant era of radio closed today.  Paul Harvey will always be remembered.  It’s a sad day for radio.

Source:  Broadcasting pioneer Paul Harvey dies at age 90 – USA Today.com

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Photograph of the Day: A Bright Tree in Bloom

Photograph of a Guayacán tree in bloom at Casco Viejo, Panama. (Credit: Omar Upegui R./Michael Moore)

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