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If four empty milk bottles can be exchanged for one full milk bottle, how much milk can I drink if I have 24 empty milk bottles?

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot worse about myself. – Jane Wagner

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- Do you like my three digit number?
- Not too bad, but look at this!
- What?
- When I multiply the three digits the result is 1/5 of the original number.
- That is strange!
- I agree. I thought it would be bigger.

I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to pay her. – New York City detective

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It is said that math solves real problems. A few teachers try to demonstrate this in a concrete way. The video is in Spanish, so is this page that gives more background.

Play for fun or find the optimal strategy.

- How was the party?
- Great! You should have been there!
- Did many show up?
- That was one of the curious things.
- What was?
- We discovered that three of the people had birthday in the same month and on the same day of the week.
- So what?
- After having partied for a while my girl friend discovered that it was no coincidence.
- What was no coincidence?
- She demonstrated that we were the minimum number of people for that to happen.
- For what to happen?
- We were the minimum number of people so that one would be certain that three of us were born in the same month on the same day of the week.
- Maybe I didn’t miss a lot after all.

If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little blue Chairs around their necks instead of crosses. – Lenny Bruce

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I won’t say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I’m going to be when I grow up. – Lenny Bruce

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