From: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!mabgarstin Newsgroups: net.jokes Title: The life and death of a mathematical tree Article-I.D.: watcgl.180 Posted: Wed Feb 9 06:39:25 1983 Received: Wed Feb 9 08:16:05 1983 This came to me at about 2:00 in the morning as I was sitting on the can so if your final assessment is that I'm suffering from a bi-lateral lobotomy you're probably giving me more credit than what is due. Here goes. The first thing that our little mathimatical tree said as he sprung up through the ground was, "Gee-om-a-tree". (It gets worse so if you want to hit break now feel free). Because he's very logically minded it's quite easy to tell that he will grow to be an APPLE tree. Let's call our little tree Newton. Newton started growing not far from from his parent tree Nary. As Newton grew his trunk divided into two, then each limb divided into two and so on. It was quite easy then to see that Newton was, due to his proximity to his parent, by-Nary. He had many leaves and look quite beautiful. As with all useless stories this one has a sad ending. One day Newton got cut down into logs. It was difficult to differentiate one part from another. Several logs were reduced to signs, most of which were placed out on the hiway to indicate limits. The rest were turned into da carts that Santa gives to little girls and boys at Christmas. All that is except for one little stick that got made into a drum stick that a drum now uses to create log rythmns on his drums. ^mer As I said, it is now 6:30 in the morning for me and I'm not functioning well M A B