Quatre Puns

Her: Where is the 5th?

French guy: Cinq.

Because Une-Deux-Troi quatre cinq.

Because Un Deux Trois cat sank!

trois cat sank

edit: trois quatre cinq

edit: the cats are french

Heard this one on the radio during the Sunday Puzzle segment on NPR's Weekend America yesterday. A grandfatherly contestant on the program (named Gérard) asked this riddle of NYTimes puzzlemaster and Yale enigmatologist Will Shortz:

"Two cats are competing to see who would win in a race swimming across the English Channel. The cats' names are One-Two-Three Cat and Un-Deux-Trois Cat. Who won?"

Shortz was stumped. The contestant answered the riddle saying:

"The English cat, One-Two-Three Cat won because Un-Deux-Trois-Quatre-Cinq."

They were named One Two Three, and Un Deux Trois.

England won; The Un Deux Trois Quatre Cinq.

"Well not really, but a bit."

"well then!.. Do you know how to pronounce "three cats drown" in french?"

"Uhhh, le chat something-something?"

"nope! trois, quatre, cinq!"

"..."

He bursts out laughing as I poker face the rest of the trip home... sigh

Do you remember how to count to 10 in french?

Ok Good.

So there are two cats, an English cat and a French cat and they are trying to make it across a river.

The english cat is named "one,two,three" and the french cat is named "Un, duex, trois". Which cat makes it across the river?

... The English cat because the un duex trois quatre cinq

Two cats, One Two Three and Un Deux Trois have a race across the English Channel. Who won? One Two Three, because Un Deux Trois Quatre Cinq!

Told by my physics teacher, who is a dad himself.

PS: If you don't know French numbers