One Up For The Irish! A Liverpool construction site boss was interviewing men for a job. Along came an Irish construction worker. 'I'm not hiring any Irishmen', the site boss thought to himself, so he made up a test to avoid hiring any Irishmen without getting into an argument. "Here's your first question," the site boss said. "Without using numbers, represent the number 9." "Without numbers?" The Irishman says. "Oh! to be sure, that is easy," and proceeds to draw three trees. "What's this?" the boss asks." "'Ave you got no brain? Tree and tree and tree make nine," says the Irishman. "Fair enough," says the boss. "Here is your second question. Use the same rules, but this time the number is 99." The Irishman stares into space for a while, then picks up the picture that he has just drawn and makes a smudge on each tree. "There you go." The boss scratches his head and says, "How on earth do you get that to represent 99?" "Each of those trees is dirty now! So it's dirty tree, and dirty tree, and dirty tree, equals 99." The boss is getting worried he's going to have to hire this Irishman, so he says, "All right, last question. Same rules again, but represent the number 100." The Irishman stares into space some more, then he picks up the picture again and makes a little mark at the base of each tree, and says, "there you go. One hundred." The boss looks at the attempt. "You must be nuts if you think that represents a hundred." The Irishman leans forward and points to the marks at the base of each tree, and says, "A little dog come along and crapped by each tree. So now you got dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd, and dirty tree and a turd, which makes one hundred. So when do I start?"
