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Longitudes and latitudes

By US Desk
16 December, 2022

A student’s voice broke the confused silence, and volunteered, ‘I guess you’d be eating alone, sir.’

COMIC RELIEF

Longitudes and latitudes

The teacher of the Earth Science class was lecturing on map reading.

He spent the class explaining about latitude, longitude, degrees, and minutes. Towards the end of class, the teacher asked his students, ‘Suppose I asked you to meet me for lunch at 23 degrees, 4 minutes north latitude and 45 degrees, 15 minutes east longitude...’

A student’s voice broke the confused silence, and volunteered, ‘I guess you’d be eating alone, sir.’

Longitudes and latitudes

An honest lawyer

Longitudes and latitudes

An investment counselor went out on her own. She was shrewd and diligent, so business kept coming in, and pretty soon she realized she needed an in-house counsel, so she began interviewing young lawyers.

‘As I’m sure you can understand,’ she started off with one of the first applicants, ‘in a business like this, our personal integrity must be beyond question.’

She leaned forward.

‘Mr. Peterson, are you an ‘honest’ lawyer?’

‘Honest?’ replied the job prospect. ‘Let me tell you something about honest. Why, I’m so honest that my father lent me fifteen thousand dollars for my education and I paid back every penny the minute I tried my very first case.’

‘Impressive. And what sort of case was that?’

The lawyer squirmed in his seat and admitted, ‘He sued me for the money.’

Longitudes and latitudes