Mainecoons
06-26-2013, 05:17 PM
Sent to me via email, funny and true:
The tribal wisdom of the Plains Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says
that "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."
However, in government more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
7. Hiring contractors to ride the dead horse.
8. Paying consultants to tell you the horse is dead.
9. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
10. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.
11. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
12. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead
and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do live horses.
13. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses. And, of course...
14. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King Jr.
In other works--- You can't fix stupid.
Not even with executive orders!
Just for you, nickie boy. Unfortunately, while you have been playing Indian, you still haven't learned to dismount the dead horse.
:grin:
The tribal wisdom of the Plains Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says
that "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."
However, in government more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
7. Hiring contractors to ride the dead horse.
8. Paying consultants to tell you the horse is dead.
9. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
10. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.
11. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
12. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead
and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do live horses.
13. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses. And, of course...
14. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King Jr.
In other works--- You can't fix stupid.
Not even with executive orders!
Just for you, nickie boy. Unfortunately, while you have been playing Indian, you still haven't learned to dismount the dead horse.
:grin: