Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsri.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ray From: ray@utcsri.UUCP (Raymond Allen) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: 4-cent stamps Message-ID: <2120@utcsri.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 11:28:11 EST Article-I.D.: utcsri.2120 Posted: Thu Feb 13 11:28:11 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Feb-86 13:07:17 EST References: <923@whuxl.UUCP> <3200013@wvlpdp> <631@well.UUCP> <159@atux01.UUCP> <2624@pucc-h> Reply-To: ray@utcsri.UUCP (Raymond Allen) Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 17 Summary: In article <2624@pucc-h> aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent) writes: >In article <159@atux01.UUCP>, hedden@atux01.UUCP writes: >> How many four cent stamps are there in a dozen? > >Could be two answers to this one: > >1. The obvious one: twelve. > >2. A dozen what? There are (usually) *no* four-cent stamps in a dozen > watermelons, for instance. I figure I can't go wrong with this answer: All of them! -- Ray Allen | "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." utcsri!ray | - Oscar Wilde as quoted in "Parachutes & Kisses" by Erica Jong