Category: Humour/Humor

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Nine Important Facts To Remember As We Grow Older:

#9 Death is the number 1 killer in the world.
#8 Life is sexually transmitted.
#7 Good health is merely the slowest possible rate
at which one can die.
#6 Men have 2 motivations: hunger and hanky-panky, and they can’t tell them apart. If you see a gleam in his eyes, make him a sandwich.
#5 Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks, months, maybe years – unless you give them your email address.
#4 Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospital, dying of nothing.
#3 All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays absolutely no attention to criticism.
#2 In the 60’s, people took LSD to make the world weird.  Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal. 
#1 Life is like a jar of jalapeno peppers.   What you do today may be a burning issue tomorrow.
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Arithmetic and Logic

An American farmer died, leaving his 17 horses to his three sons.

When his sons opened up the Will it read:

My eldest son should get 1/2 (half) of total horses;

My middle son should be given 1/3rd (one-third) of the total horses;

My youngest son should be given 1/9th (one-ninth) of the total horses.

Since it’s impossible to divide 17 into half or 17 by 3 or 17 by 9, the three sons started to fight with each other.

So, they decided to go to an Australian farmer who lived next door that they considered quite smart, to see if he could work it out for them.

The Australian read the Will patiently;

after giving due thought, he brought one of his own horses over, increasing the total to 18 horses.

Now, he divided the horses according to their father’s Will.

Half of 18 = 9. So he gave the eldest son 9 horses.
1/3rd of 18 = 6. So he gave the middle son 6 horses.
1/9th of 18 = 2. So he gave the youngest son 2 horses.

Now add up the number of horses they have:

Eldest son 9

Middle son 6

Youngest son 2

TOTAL: 17

Now this leaves one horse over, so the Australian takes his horse back to his farm.

Problem Solved!

Moral:

The attitude of negotiation and problem solving is to find the 18th horse i.e. the common ground. Once a person is able to find the 18th horse, the issue is resolved. It is difficult at times; however, to reach a solution, the first step is to believe that there is a solution. If we think that there is no solution, we won’t be able to reach any!

That’s what I call clever Mathematics and if in doubt always ask an Australian!