Irish Joke

[lemon]

A construction site boss was interviewing men for a job, when along came

Murphy. The boss thought I'm not hiring that lazy Irishman, so he decided to

set a test for Murphy, hoping he wouldn't be able to answer the questions,

and he'd be able to refuse him the job without getting into an argument.

The first question was, "Without using numbers, represent the number 9".

So Murphy says, "Dat's easy" and proceeds to draw three trees.

The boss says,"What the ######'s that?"

Murphy says "Tree 'n tree n' tree makes nine".

Fair enough, says the boss.

"Second question, same rules, but represent 99".

Murphy stares into space for a while, then makes a smudge on each tree. "Der

ya go sir" he says. The boss scratches his head and says, "How on earth do

you get that to represent 99".

Murphy says "Each tree's dirty now, so it's dirty tree, n' dirty tree n'

dirty tree, dat's 99".

The boss is getting worried he's going to have to hire him, so he says "All

right, question three. Same rules again, but represent the number 100".

Murphy stares into space again, then he shouts, "got it!" he makes a little

mark at the base of each tree, and says 'There ya go sir 100."

The boss looks at Murphy's attempt and thinks, "Ha! got him this time.

Go on Murphy, you must be mad if you think that represents a hundred".

Murphy leans forward and points to the marks at the tree bases, and says,

"A little dog comes along and craps by each tree, so now you've got, dirty

tree an' a turd, dirty tree n' a turd, an' dirty tree an' a turd, which makes

one hundred. So when does I start me job"?

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