Lower Math

The problem is that too many males are being born and not enough females, right?"

"As if the obvious aint damned obvious!"

"Kingie, babe, if you keep this up we aint never gonna get to the solution."

"Okay, okay, get on with it!"

"Whatever solution we come up with is gonna require demoness cooperation, right?"

The King and Minister exchange glances. "Right!" they say in unison.

"So, there has to be something in it for the ladies."

"Yeah, okay, but it has to solve the problem, too," the King responds.

"Well, spose some demoness are better at having baby demonesses than baby demons. Why them would be the kind you'd want having the babies, right?"

Dumbfounded, the King looks at the Minister and they both look back at the Demoness. "Are there demonesses who have more demonesses than other demonesses?"

"Well, Kingie, we dont know for sure." Can you see that look on her face? Is that a classic cat and canary? Will these guys never see it? "But we thought up a plan to make it happen. We find out which ones have girls and which ones have boys and we only let the ones who have girls have babies. As soon as a Demoness has a baby demon she gets retired. We just dont allow her to have any more babies."

"Yeah, I see it now. We keep getting more and more demonesses and less and less demons. It dont solve the problem overnight but it does solve the problem eventual like."

"So," the demoness continues, "what we got to do is identify the ones who have girls and get the ones who have boys out of the market. Retire em off someplace where they can do demoness kind of things and not be bothering all you demons."

The King and the Minister of Numbers are really proud of their plan. They take it to the guards and they really like it, too. The guards take it the billion demons and they come to the conclusion that its the only sane thing to do. But, then theyre demons.

Did I mention that demons dont understand statistics?