From: utzoo!decvax!watmath!wat_jokes
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: tary
Article-I.D.: watmath.2762
Posted: Sun Jun 20 22:51:00 1982
Received: Tue Jun 22 02:50:03 1982

	As many of you know, canadians are going metric.  This
is coming gradually to all areas.  The latest one is in psychology,
where now intelligence is no longer measured by IQ or other obsolete
measures.  The new measure is the "tary" and has nice properties.
	The average intelligence of a human being is 1 tary.  Some
super-genius may have deca-tarys, but this will be unusual.  On the
other hand, deci-tarys are useful to measure intelligence in animals
and centi-tarys are for the flora kingdom.
	And, as usual with the metric system, a nice coincidence:
the milli-tary.