The Bear Hunter

[W1RKW]

A hunter decides to go bear hunting.  He starts out by going south. After walking for 2 miles he finds no bear.  He then decides to head west.  After a walking 1 mile he shoots his bear. He heads north for 2 miles and is back where he started.  What kind of bear did he shoot?

[AJ1G]

A polar bear, his starting point and ending point were the North Pole....and there certainly weren't any penguin's hanging around swilling Coke and doing the Jingle Bell Hop up there...although penguins would be mighty tasty to a polar bear, they never get the chance, since penguins are found in the southern hemisphere only, and there are no polar bears in the Antarctic.  The agency that produced that advert obviously doesn't have any zoology majors on staff.

[AJ1G]

When the hunter is walking due west, he actually is circling the pole two miles out,  As soon as he turns north, the distance back to his IP is the same as his southern outbound leg.  If he kept  walking west long enough,  he would eventually come across his original track.  He then will have "circumnavigated" the pole.

[W1RKW]

Chris,
Macunudo?
Arturo Fuente?
Partagas?
Cohiba?
Monte Cristo?
Tiparillo? (had to throw in a cheapy)

[AJ1G]

None of the above, thanks (I don't smoke).  But a well chilled Sammy Adams at the Spring Hosstraders would be an OK FINE substitute!

(or a Coke..delivered by a little penguin!)

[k4kyv]

The way I heard it about 30 years ago was that a penguin headed south for one mile, then went east one mile, and then turned back north one mile, and ended up where he started.  It couldn't be at the north pole because there are no penguins at the north pole.  What was his starting point?

The answer is, at a point 1 + 1/2pi miles away from the south pole.  He walks south one mile until he is 1/2pi miles from the south pole.  He then walks east or west one mile, which takes him in a circle back to the same spot where he turned.  He then back tracks one mile north to the starting point.


Speaking of pi...

In the State of Indiana during the 50's the state legislature ruled that Pi is 3.0 by state law.   

The Indiana Legislature would meet for 60 days every 2 years.  They always managed to pussyfoot around, doing little or nothing until the legislative period was almost finished, and they would end up with a stack of legislation to be enacted as the deadline approached.   

Someone came up with the idea of unplugging the official clock in the general meeting room at 1 minute to midnight on the 60th day.  "Legally" the time in that room remained the same for days or weeks, until all the legislation was enacted.

The legislators were only paid for 60 days, so they were now working on their own time, so they would start running bills through, often without really reading or understanding much of what they were voting on, just to get finished so they could go back home.

One legislator decided to prove to the Legislature that they would vote for almost anything.  He introduced an amendment to a major bill that was about to be enacted, to change Pi as taught in the Indiana schools from 3.1415926 to 3.   He addressed the Legislature explaining how hard it was for school children to make calculations using Pi=3.1415926, and that it needed to be changed to a more manageable even number.

A voice vote was held on the ammendment, with only 1 vote against it and that one was cast by the man who had introduced the bill.  He then got up and announced to the elected officials how stupid that they were.  But the amendment was never struck from the bill, which was signed into law by the governor.