Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site cwruecmp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!cwruecmp!sundar From: sundar@cwruecmp.UUCP (Sundar R. Iyengar) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Indian Farmer Joke Message-ID: <1111@cwruecmp.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 23:18:57 EST Article-I.D.: cwruecmp.1111 Posted: Tue Mar 20 23:18:57 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 08:26:55 EST Organization: CWRU Computer Engr. Cleveland, Ohio Lines: 22 No offense intended to Indian Farmers and English Men. Read on: ............................................................ There was this Viceroy during the British Raj who strongly believed that Indians were arrant fools. One day his friend arrives from London. To prove his point to his friend, the Viceroy takes him to his coconut grove. He stops by a farmer tending a coconut tree and says, "Tell me, there are 243 coconut trees in this grove. Each bears about 37 coconuts in a season (numbers don't matter). Now, tell me, how old I am ?" The farmer ponders over this rather quizzical question for a minute or so, and then replies, "56 Sir". The viceroy was astonished. That was his 56th birthday. That is why his friend had come all the way from England. Naturally he wanted to find out this source of unusual intelligence. "How do you know?" The farmer goes, "I have a brother who turned 28 today. He is half as crazy". ............................................................ sundar iyengar