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Re: Conundrum (waaay off topic)

To: mgworld@chp.ltd.uk
Subject: Re: Conundrum (waaay off topic)
From: barneymg@juno.com (Barney Gaylord)
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 01:16:58 EST
On Wed, 4 Feb 98 20:18:09 -0000 Phil Raby <mgworld@chp.ltd.uk> writes:
>Thre old ladies go to a restuarant for a meal. The bill comes to =
>=A330, so they pay =A310 each. The waiter takes their money to the =
>manager who says. "They're old-age pensioners, give them a =A35 =
>discount."
>
>The waiter thinks that it is too hard to spilt =A35 three ways, so he 
>=
>gives the ladies =A31 each and pockets the extra =A32.
>
>The ladies, who paid =A310 each, get =A31 back each, which means they 
>=
>paid =A39 each.
>
>Three nines are =A327, which leaves =A33 spare. The waiter took =A32, 
>=
>so what's happened to the extra =A31?

Mr Raby speak with forked tongue.  There be not 3 to spare.  Three nines
are 27, which leaves 2 spare, because the meal cost 25.

Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude


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