noah's log table

In the beginning, at the time of the great flood, Noah went through his ark after it landed, and found two small snakes huddled in a corner. Noah looked at these poor specimens and said, “I told you to go forth and multiply – why haven’t you?”

The poor snakes looked up at Noah and replied, “We can’t, because we are adders.”

Noah looked a bit perplexed, and then proceeded to tear bits of planking from his ark. He went on to build a beautiful wooden platform. He gathered up the snakes and placed them on the platform, and joyfully told the snakes, “Now go forth and multiply, because even adders can multiply on a log table.”

D. Scott MacKenzie, PhD, Metallurgist Specializing in Heat Treatment and Quenching
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Courtesy of the sliderullemuseum.com