Engineer, mathematician, and business graduate were tasked with determining the height of a church steeple (the first prize is $1000).
The engineer tried to remember things about differential pressures but resorted to climbing the steeple and lowering a string on a plumb bob until it touched the ground and then climbed down and measured the length of the string.
The mathematician played a reference line, measured the angle at the top of the church steeple from both ends, and calculated the height by trigonometry.
However, the arts graduate won the prize. He bought the vicar a beer in the local pub and
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the vicar told him how high the church steeple was.
A man got a horse from a temple
A man needed a horse, so he went to a temple and got one.
Before he left, the priest told him that it was a special horse.
In order to make the horse go, you say, “Thank God,” and for it to stop you say, “Amen.”
So the man left and a few minutes later, he dozed off on his horse.
A few hours later, he woke up and his horse raced with him to the edge of a cliff.
Just in time, he shouted “Amen!” and the horse stopped a few inches from the edge.
“Whew,” said the man, “thank God!”
