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Teaching Math is 1960.

A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?


Teaching Math in 1970.

A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. What is his profit?


Teaching Math in 1980.

A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment is to underline the number 20.

Teaching Math in 1990.

By cutting down beautiful forest trees, the logger makes $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question is how did the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down the trees? There are no wrong answers.

Teching Math in 2000

A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $120. How does Arthur Andersen determine his profit margin is $60.


I'm sorry but this was just too funny not to pass along. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

The truth do hurt.

Our wages have been largely stagnant for a long while. I expect we'll heal up and get "even" before too long. Until then,we boot up,suck it up and pick [bleep] with the chickens.

It's a great Life,if you don't weaken....................(grin)

DB Bill

Where can I get $100 for the load and only have $120 in production costs?????? That would be doing REALLY well around here!!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Are you boys Hoot-Owling down there?

I've been up here long enough,I don't know that I could ever work in the heat again.

Be safe....................

Stick,
Things are pretty spooky here in Montana right now. Plum Creek has closed its lands, only the overinsured are working in the woods under hoot, but the others are mostly on fires.
Had a front roll in last night, 2 hundredths, the first wet in at least a month. A fire team from Alaska came down and burned out in front of the Robert and bounced it around Apgar and W Glacier, so far we have at least 6 fires over 10,000 acres within sniffing range. This literally stinketh.
What I notice is the silence from the Greens lately. Not a word about visibility down to a mile, air pollution, lost huckleberry patches, tourists abandoning the area in droves, and of course, the utter waste of wood and money.
You can bet they'd be howling hissy fits if the current pollution was manmade or from profit-making activity. But these fires, manmade thanks to manmade courtroom decisions not to manage in the face of reality, are somehow okay.

Have a pard down there right now and he's left here for good,to do the Fire Thing in Montana where his roots are. He bought a tanker and some other equipment and claims to be making more money than a sane man can spend. Being it's federal funds,I tend to believe him.

I see Dubya is truly pushing hard for some new thinking and practices, as geared to Forestry,I don't believe he is bluffing either and look for some common sense changes.

The Greenpeacers showed up in these parts recently and our itty-bitty local paper had a picture of some high school aged kids(boys) of Logging heritage,hanging their bare asses out at them as their ship steamed past. I thought it to be a great picture and somewhat poetic. It did my heart good and put a smile on the community at large.

It's been proved numerous times that radical stupidity don't help any situation and I see the tides starting to change in that department. Our future is looking brighter here for long term work,than it has in a long while. Though it will never be like it was with a Logging Camp around every corner,it will keep the few that toughed her out and hung tight,fed through more Winters and induce some fresh folk from South to give Alaska a whirl and contemplate laying roots of their own.

It is a most frustrating situation for a man ready,willing and able to work,to have a no account band of gutter trash hippies seemingly control their destiny. California is beyond a joke,with their hyper ridiculous regulations and insane practices,I truly don't know how guys down there can play that game. I am very troubled when mandated to holster common sense and ordered to think like an idiot. Though there is remote possibility I boot up there again,it's not due to my overly looking forward to jumping through hoops,to satisfy a glassy-eyed idiot wearing a Piss Fir Willy hat.

Rant Mode off and am hoping your neck of the woods fares well............................

In Kalifornia, we are having the first ever recall of our governor. His air head, fellow democrats from the left refused to face the reality that the state is very deeply in debt. The voters told them they couldn't raise taxed w/o a 2/3's majority, so they "agreed" to borrow money to make ends meet and hope for a economic improvement to raise revenues. In the mean time, we, the taxpayers, will pay much higher interest on the bonds we sell to "keep us afloat".

The leading "conservative" is an advocate of gun control and must still deal with the solidly entrenched liberals.

Stay in Alaska, or any place but here if you can. I don't see this getting any better any time soon. E

Yeah, I heard about Ketchikan denying dock space to the Greenpeaceniks. If you see Dick Coose tell him I sez hang in there, and hang THEM high.
Thing is, that boat show is just to film a docudrama for Outsiders to swoon over and spend money for more lawyers and more boat diesel. Oh, well, it's a Polish boat, here's hoping the Commie workmanship comes back and bites them in the Gulf.

I will tell you a bummer. We had a parade, got a self-loader truck and put fake USFS signs on it "Molloy National Forest, Land of No Use, Leave Now" and some burnt lodgepole tops on the stakes. The owner is out of the woods for now, wrenching on state fire engines for the duration.
Molloy is Don Molloy, a Naderite judge that has technicalitied everything to a standstill in Montana. I almost fell off the crows nest when people in the crowd asked "Where's the Molloy National Forest?" Seriously.
We haven't seen the mountains in a week, are blowing black snot and these people STILL have NO CLUE?