Thursday, October 06, 2005
Your Question
A group of friends who prided themselves on their
intelligence set out to have a contest of wits.
Each person in turn asked a question, and anyone who
volunteered an answer that was wrong dropped out. If
no one could answer, the questioner himself had to
answer, and if he was wrong, he dropped out.
Each dropout had to put $5 into the pot.
Eventually the matter boiled down to Thompson and Brown,
and the erudition of each one boiled up so that both were
held even for half an hour.
Finally Thompson said, "How does a gopher dig a hole without
leaving a mound of dirt at the lip?"
Brown thought about that and said, "I can't answer that.
However, since it's your question, you had better answer it."
Thompson said coolly, as he reached for the accumulated
pile of bills. "Easy. The gopher starts at the bottom of
the hole and that's where he leaves the dirt."
"Hold on," said Brown heatedly, grasping Thompson's wrist to
prevent him from taking the pot. "How does the gopher get to
the bottom of the hole in the first place?"
"That's your question," said Thompson as he took the money.
Taken off ~AIKEN DRUM'S~ * a laugh a day *
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