The pair of adders found on Noah's arc carried & drank Ripple (Google it). But they were so drunk most of the time, that they couldn't tell what they were carrying. One these adders married a cobra, so their sons were only half-adders. Luckily, there were two sons, so these half-adders were able to lead full lives--at least until one of them was xorcised, thus becoming an ander. --- I wonder if this adder/log joke can be updated to talk about discrete logs... At 01:27 PM 1/1/2014, Henry Baker wrote:

joke from comp.risks:

The floods had subsided, and Noah had safely landed his ark on Mount Sinai. "Go forth and multiply!" he told the animals, and so off they went two by two, and within a few weeks Noah heard the chatter of tiny monkeys, the snarl of tiny tigers and the stomp of baby elephants. Then he heard something he didn't recognise... a loud, revving buzz coming from the woods. He went in to find out what strange animal's offspring was making this noise, and discovered a pair of snakes wielding a chainsaw. "What on earth are you doing?" he cried. "You're destroying the trees!" "Well Noah," the snakes replied, "we tried to multiply as you bade us, but we're adders... so we have to use logs." *contributed by Alan Turnbull**, National Physical Laboratory