A friend of mine sent me this in an email. I've seen it before, but it is cute:
A Missouri farmer passed away and left 17 mules to his three sons.
The instructions left in the will said that the oldest boy was to get one-half, the second oldest one-third, and the youngest one-ninth.
The three sons, seeing the difficulty of dividing 17 mules into these fractions, began to argue.
The uncle heard about the argument, hitched up his mule, and drove out to settle the matter.
He added his mule to the 17, making 18.
The eldest son then got one-half, or nine.
The second eldest got one-third, or six.
The youngest got one-ninth,or two.
Adding up 9, 6 and 2 equals 17.
The uncle hitched up his mule and drove home
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Yep, that is what you call common sense logic. Only from a farmer.
I am glad that you are all right! I have not had much time to browse these cyber pages lately but I miss people when I dont' see them for a while.
And by the way, you probably have enough "chips" but with the amount of inflation and the low value of cow chips, the good Lord may be holding off for a better return on His investment!! :-)
That is sooooo cool, that I'm going to abscond with this one Joe!
jim: You got that right.
Japheth: Yeah...He's not finished with me...yet.
Bonnie: abscond away!
Good one.
I hope you and your computer are still feeling better.
now that don't say much for us MO. farmer's, now does it!
hope you are feeling better Joe
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