The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

MATHEMATICAL JOKE

THERE ONCE WAS A BUM WHO WOULD COLLECT CIGARETTE BUTTS FROM THE
STREETS. IF SEVEN BUTTS MALE ONE CIGARETTE AND HE HAD 49 BUTTS, HOW
MANY CIGARETTES DID HE SMOKE?
EIGHT CIGARETTES. HE SMOKED THE SEVEN CIGARETTES AND WITH THE SEVEN
BUTTS HE HAD LEFT OVER HE MADE THE EIGHTH CIGARETTE.

Submitter comment: LEARNED FROM A FRIEND.

Where learned: ONTARIO ; WINDSOR

Date learned: 10-05-1967