3rd blogiversary

We have completed 3 years of blogging and we are pleased that we have managed to be a bit more prolific than this blog. A guy once told me that he thinks so deeply about what he writes that he has written only one post in two years. In contrast, I am a shallow thinker with more output. Guess you can't have the best of both worlds simultaneously.

At first, I used to write only about my stroke related experiences but then I started mentioning interesting bits from books I read. Most people get blog fodder from their travels, conversations with people, office experiences etc. A large part of my input comes from the books and blogs that I read.

This time, instead of indulging in my usual Sesquipedalian Obscurantism I thought I will just ask a simple riddle. I had second thoughts about this but then I thought that may be you can have some fun with kids so here goes :

Three Indian women are sitting side by side. The first, sitting on a goatskin, has a son who weighs 170 pounds. The second, sitting on a deerskin, has a son who weighs 130 pounds. The third, seated on a hippopotamus hide, weighs 300 pounds. What famous theorem does this illustrate? (Riddle from The Game of Words by Willard Espy.)

On the off chance that a couple of you may be a bit off colour, I have given the answer below. Just scroll down a bit.

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Naturally, the answer is that the squaw on the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws on the other two hides. I told you it was simple!