Pioneering research was first performed by hodja nasreddin:
“During a conversation with Tamerlane, Hodja started bragging about his donkey.
"It is so smart that I can teach it even how to read, "he said.
"Then go ahead and teach it reading. I give you 3 months.," Tamerlane ordered.
Hodja went home and began to train his donkey. He put its feed between the pages of a big book and taught it to turn the pages by its tongue to find its feed. Three days before the three month period was over, he stopped feeding it.
When he took his donkey to Tamerlane, he asked for a big book and put it in front of the donkey. The hungry animal turned the pages of the book one by one with its tongue and when it couldn't find any feed between the pages it started braying.
Tamerlane watched the donkey closely and then said,
Another retelling of this story, more closely aligned with grants:
Tamerlane was looking for someone to teach his donkey to talk. Nobody wanted the job. Finally the wise men of the dunes - Hodja Nasreddin took the position and promised to teach the donkey to talk in 10 years time.
Are you crazy? his friends asked him.
Not really, Hodja answered, the money is good the job is not hard and in 10 years a lot might happen: I might die, or Tamerlane might die or surely enough this old donkey might die.
has this not been done before? It seems so obvious.
Pioneering research was first performed by hodja nasreddin:
“During a conversation with Tamerlane, Hodja started bragging about his donkey.
"It is so smart that I can teach it even how to read, "he said.
"Then go ahead and teach it reading. I give you 3 months.," Tamerlane ordered.
Hodja went home and began to train his donkey. He put its feed between the pages of a big book and taught it to turn the pages by its tongue to find its feed. Three days before the three month period was over, he stopped feeding it.
When he took his donkey to Tamerlane, he asked for a big book and put it in front of the donkey. The hungry animal turned the pages of the book one by one with its tongue and when it couldn't find any feed between the pages it started braying.
Tamerlane watched the donkey closely and then said,
"This is sure a strange way of reading!"
Hodja remarked,
"But this is how a donkey reads."
lmao this is such a good grift. that donkey was PISSED.
Another retelling of this story, more closely aligned with grants:
Tamerlane was looking for someone to teach his donkey to talk. Nobody wanted the job. Finally the wise men of the dunes - Hodja Nasreddin took the position and promised to teach the donkey to talk in 10 years time.
I'm bummed that google says this dude died in 1284, because I really could learn a lot from him.
One of the real ones :sadness:
rip gonna pour one out right into my mouth later today
His stories are like central asian folk tales btw, they are funny to read, can recommend
so basically pre-internet shitposting? based.