Get it?

When Noah landed the ark on Mt Ararat, he shooed the animals out, saying, “Go out. Be fruitful and multiply.” All of them left except two snakes. Noah said, “Go on. Be fruitful and multiply.” One of the snakes sobbed, “We can’t. We’re adders.”

Noah thought for a bit and then went out and called the beavers back. “Before you go, can you cut down a few trees and make them into a raisedi platform?” The beavers complied. Noah went to the adders and told them to have sexual intercourse on top of the platform.

A few weeks later, Noah encountered the snakes, followed by a large brood of their children. “Thank you, Noah”, said one of the snakes. “Even adders can multiply on a log table.”

I find it cute. If you didn’t get it, I’ll explain. If you want to multiply two numbers you can take the logarithm of each, add them together and then take the anti logarithm of that number which will be the product of the two original numbers. Before calculators people used to do this. There were tables of logarithms used to facilitate this. It’s the basis of sliderules (I hear ya, ‘What’s that?!’). Sigh, my age revealed.