There was once a man named Harold. Harold was from England. The king would always get upset with Harold because it seemed like Harold never failed at anything and the king was jealous.

So one day, the king was determined to prove Harold a failure. He drew a line across the floor. He said:
"Harold, make this line shorter. You may not erase it in any way".
Harold said
"No problem your highness".
And he made the line shorter.

How is this possible?

with the line positioned in a vertical direction, i would draw an "s" to the left of it and convert the line into an "h" and write the letters "orter" to the right hand side, thus spelling out the word "shorter".

tyvm

Posted by Brian on 2004-01-07 19:37:13