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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke
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To: Edwarda who wrote (11573)9/17/1999 11:04:00 AM
From: broken_cookie  Read Replies (2) of 62553
 
You love those jokes blondie. Here's an old one with some aditions:

Teaching Math

Teaching Math in 1950:

A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of
production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?

Teaching Math in 1960:

A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of
production is 4/5 of the price, or$80. What is his profit?

Teaching Math in 1970:

A logger exchanges a set "L" of lumber for a set "M" of
money. The cardinality of set "M" is 100. Each element is
worth one dollar. Make 100 dots representing the elements of
the set "M". The set "C", the cost of production contains 20
fewer points than set "M". Represent the set "C" as a subset
of set "M" and answer the following question: What is the
cardinality of the set "P" for profits?

Teaching Math in 1980:

A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. Her cost of
production is $80 and her profit is $20. Your assignment:
Underline the number 20.

Teaching Math in 1990:

By cutting down beautiful forest trees, the logger makes
$20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic
for class participation after answering the question: How
did the forest birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut
down the trees? There are no wrong answers.

Teaching Math in 1996:

By laying off 40% of its loggers, a company improves its
stock price from $80 to $100. How much capital gain per
share does the CEO make by exercising his stock options at
$80? Assume capital gains are no longer taxed, because this
encourages savings.

Teaching Math in 1997:

A company outsources all of its loggers. The firm saves on
benefits, and when demand for its product is down, the
logging work force can easily be cut back. The average
logger employed by the company earned $50,000, had three
weeks vacation, a nice retirement plan and medical
insurance. The contracted logger charges $50 an hour. Was
outsourcing a good move?

Teaching Math in 1998:

A laid-off logger with four kids at home and a ridiculous
alimony from his first failed marrage comes into the logging
company corporate offices and goes postal, mowing down 16
executives and a couple of secretaries, and gets lucky when
he nails a politician on the premises collecting his
kickback. Was outsourcing the loggers a good move for the
company?

Teaching Math in 1999:

A laid-off logger serving time in Folsom for blowing away
several people is being trained as a COBOL programmer in
order to work on Y2K projects. Whatis the probability that
the automatic cell doors will open on their own as of 00:01,
01/01/2000?

from RB
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