Mr. & Mrs. Smith have been back from their
honeymoon for two weeks when Mr. Smith comes
home from work and says that he has invited
4 of his friends from the office home for
dinner on Friday night. The wife is a bit
apprehensive and asks if she must cook a
meal for the four. The husband explains that
there will be eight coming because each will
bring his wife.
Since this is there first party, the husband
consoles her by saying that all she has to
do is get some Chinese food in and perhaps
she can bake a cake.
This sounds like a good idea, and they sit
down and decide what Chinese food to get.
Friday morning wife calls the office in tears.
She explains that the only cake recipe she
has will only feed six.
Hubby says, “Why don’t you just double the
recipe?” She decides that is a good idea.
At four, hubby gets another phone call—
this time quite frantic.
“I just can’t do it,” wifey weeps. “It’s
impossible.”
“Now, now, what’s the matter?”
“Well, their recipe calls for two eggs…”
“So, you use FOUR eggs. Don’t you have them?”
“Yes—then it needs 4 cups of flour.”
“Well,” hubby says rather testily, “you will
have to use 8 cups of flour—what is the
problem?”
“It isn’t the ingredients,” wife sobs, “it
says that the cake must be baked at 350
degrees and I have checked the oven, and I
can’t turn the heat up to 700 degrees!”
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