My Dad showed me his maths book from 6th class, about 1960 or so – thought it was gas how many questions were tobacco related

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1. Dealers selling “eggs”.

2. Y’know, in terms of working this out, I was reading this thinking, ah this is dead handy, just pop it into the calculator and I’d have it done in a jiffy.
   …Then I remembered that your dad probably came from the generation that had to do all this stuff in their head.
   All of a sudden I became aware of the gulf between my dreams and reality.

3. The answer is 2?

4. (26) There are 31 days in July. How many cigarettes did Sally smoke this week ?

5. It’s mad how things were before the decimal system: Stones, pounds and hundredweights. Pounds, shillings and pence. 24 hours in a day. Crazy stuff.

6. I always thought a hundred weight meant 100lbs. I had heard old people refer to big bags of coal as a half hundred.

7. The lad setting the questions realised he was out of fags at Q.15 and had to finish up before he could go to the shop.

8. I like that they got lazy with the hypothetical scenarios at the end and it’s just: Here fuckin divide this will ya!

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