Uncle John's cousin, "Bozo" Newman, was about to board a city bus with his newly purchased, five-foot-long novelty toothbrush, when the bus driver informed him of a city ordinance prohibiting packages more than four feet tall. Bozo only had enough money to take the bus home, so he tried returning the toothbrush -but the store wouldn't take returns. Five minutes later, Bozo was on the bus riding home …with the big toothbrush in one piece.
How'd he do it?
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Highlight here for the answer: Bozo asked the store manager for a box that was four feet by three feet, which has a diagonal measure of …five feet. Cool!
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... I probably would have been kicked off the bus.
Lesson: it's okay to be a smartalec as long as no one catches on.