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.
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.