A contstruction boss in BOSTON was interviewing men when along came a guy named Vinny from NEW YORK. I'm not hiring any wise-a** New Yorker, the foreman thought, so he made up a test hoping that Vinny wouldn't be able to answer the questions, and he'd be able to refuse him the job without getting into a dispute.
"Here's your first question," the foreman said.
"Without using numbers, represent the number 9."
"Widdout numbiz?" Vinny says,
"Dat's easy!" and proceeds to draw 3 trees.
"What's this?" the boss asks.
"Vinny replies, "Ain't you got no brains?
Tree 'n tree 'n tree makes nine. Fuggedabout it....."
"Fair enough," says the boss. "Here's your second question. Use the same rule, but this time use the number 99."
Vinny stares into space for a minute, then picks up the picture he has drawn and makes a smudge on each tree. "Dere ya go buddy."
The boss scratches his head and says,
"How on earth do you get that to represent 99?"
Vinny says "Each a da trees is dirty now! So it's dirty tree 'n dirty tree 'n dirty tree - dat's 99!"
The boss is getting worried he's going to have to hire the New Yorker so he says, "All right, last question. Same rules but this time use 100."
Vinny stares into space again, then picks up the picture again, makes a little mark at the base of each tree and says, "Dere ya go Mac, a hunnert."
The boss looks at the picture for a moment and says, "You must be nuts if you think that represents 100!"
New York Vinny leans forward and points to the marks at the base of each tree. "A little doggie comes along and takes a s**t on each a dem trees, so now ya got dirty tree an' a turd, dirty tree an' a turd, dirty tree an' a turd-which makes a hunnert.
Badda-boom, badda-bing. When do I freakin start?"
