> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net]On Behalf Of mrdancer
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 5:32 AM
> To: 'DML'
> Subject: Re: DML: Betch-ya I can stump you guys!!!!!!!
>
>
> I read a while back in MT or C&D about the extensions put on most
> car names.
> The SE, EX, SX, XE, ES and XS, etc. extensions are supposed to be
> subliminal
> advertising, linking the car to sex deep in your subconscious - IOW, buy
> this SX car and you will get sex. If that's the case, maybe SLT is slut?
> LOL
>
> and now, something completely different.......
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Here's a real stumper!
> Three guys in a hotel call room service and order two large pizzas. The
> delivery boy brings them up with a bill for exactly $30.00. Each guy gives
> him a $10.00 bill, and he leaves. That's fact!
> When he hands the $30.00 to the cashier, he is told a mistake was
> made. The
> bill was only $25.00, not $30.00. The cashier gives the delivery boy five
> $1.00 bills and tells him to take it back to the 3 guys who ordered the
> pizza. That's fact!
> On the way back to their room, the delivery boy has a thought...
> these guys
> did not give him a tip. He figures that since there is no way to
> split $5.00
> evenly three ways anyhow, he will keep two dollars for himself
> and give them
> back three dollars. OK! So far so good!
> He knocks on the door and one fellow answers. He explains about a
> mix up in
> the bill, and hands he guy the three dollars, then departs with his
> two-dollar tip in his pocket.
> Now the fun begins!
> Remember $30-$25=$5 Right? $5-$3=$2 Right?
> So what's the problem? All is well, right?
> Not quite. Answer this:
> Each of the three guys originally gave $10.00 each. They each got
> back $1.00
> in change.
> That means they paid $9.00 each, which times three is $27.00. The delivery
> boy kept $2.00 for a tip.
> $27.00 plus $2.00 equals $29.00.
> Where the heck is the other dollar ?????????
>
You are doing the math wrong, $10 each, that's 3x10=$30.00
He gives each a dollar back $30-3=$27.00-$2 he kept (not ADDED!)
which equals $25.00!!!
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Can a man marry his widows sister?
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