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Date: 05 December 2006 23:30:17
...here is a joke I heard tonight.
A shepherd takes his sheepdog to the market, where he buys several more sheep to add to his flock. When he gets them back to his pasture, he says to his dog, "I need to pop into town for a while. While I'm gone, could you do me a favour?"
"Sure," replies the dog, "what do you need me to do?"
"Just count all the sheep for me, make sure there's none missing or anything like that. Then they'll need to go into their pen, so just round them up as normal."
"No problem," says the sheepdog, so the shepherd leaves him to it and heads for the town.
When he returns a few hours later, all the sheep are indeed in the pen. "Did you count them for me too?" he asks his dog.
"Yep," says the dog, "all there. 140 of them."
But this doesn't sound right to the shepherd, so he decides to double check and does a quick count. "Hang on a second," he says to the dog, "I make it after the trip to the market today, there should be 138, and now that I've counted, that's what I make it. Where did the other two come from?"
"Well," comes the sheepdog's reply, "you told me you wanted them rounding up..."
(I never said it was a funny joke, remember, just a joke.)