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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
The Planes Indians practiced polygamy, and one chief had three squaws. The first squaw lived in a teepee of elk hide, the second in a teepee made of buffalo hide, and the youngest in a teepee of hippopotamus hide.

Then he slept with each wife on the eve of his great hunting trip.

He was gone nine moons and when he returned, he went into the elk hide teepee and found that his wife had borne him a son. Likewise, in the buffalo hide teepee, that squaw, too, had borne him a son. So, imagine his surprise when he found twin baby boys in the hippopotamus hide teepee.

This just proves that ...

The squaw of the hippopotomus is equal to the sum of the squaws of the other two hides .



That might be a geometry joke.

No. It wasn't.