Calling names

Abraham Lincoln once asked one of his secretaries, “If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have?”

“Five,” replied the secretary.

“No,” said the President, “The answer is four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”

From: http://www.sciforums.com/

Image: A postage stamp issued by Afghanistan in 2003 features a sculpture of the Buddha in the Buddhist monastic complex of Takht-i-Bahi (Throne of Origins), which was founded in the early 1st century in Mardan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Courtesy https://www.buddhiststamp.com/