The other answers seem more reasonable, but the programmer in me just instantly thought of this:

>!"What do you get if you add 1 to 1 three times?"  
>!Read aloud: "add 1 2 1 3 times"  
>!That is a function that looks like this:  
>! `f = (+1213)*`, i.e. a function that takes some input number and returns a new function that would add 3639 to its own input number.
>!So that new function is what I get if I "add 1 to 1 three times"

<sub>I really hope this answer is not considered too strange for this site.</sub>