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From: sundar@cwruecmp.UUCP (Sundar R. Iyengar)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Yet Another Farmer Funnies (Yaff)
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Date: Tue, 17-Apr-84 12:29:26 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 17 12:29:26 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Apr-84 19:09:31 EST
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The strongly religious communities of South India always scoff at the
younger generations that try to find "scientific" reasons for
traditional beliefs and customs that have been passed on for
generations.  And, of course, they are always trying to make fun of
this new scientific generation.  This incident is about a young
scientist who is wandering about the countryside recording ancient
traditions for later analysis (and of course, he makes a fool of
himself). He has read somewhere that the people of this village have
strange ways of finding time and equally strange ways of explaining
their calculations.  He stops in an open field by a tree.  A farmer is
resting on the ground with his donkey chewing away next to him.  The
scientist checks his watch which shows 11 in the morning.  He asks the
farmer,
  "Sir, do you know what time it is now?"
The farmer opens his right eye, reaches forward, lifts his donkey's
tail and looks underneath it.
  "11 O'clock".
Happy that he has stumbled on a queer way of finding the time,
the scientist continues,
  "How did you find the correct time, Sir?"
The farmer opens his right eye, reaches forward, lifts his donkey's
tail and says,
  "Look".
There at a distance, one could see the clock tower.
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sundar iyengar