OT: Dead Horses

[raghorn]

The tribal wisdom of the Dakota 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.

In modern EDUCATION and GOVERNMENT, however, a whole range of far more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Threatening the horse with termination.
4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
5. Arranging to visit other countries to see how others ride dead horses.
6. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
7. Re-classifying the dead horse as “living-impaired”.
8. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
9. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase the 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 some other horses.
13. Re-writing the expected performance requirements for all horses.
14. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

 

[Sylvrfalcn]

Lord ain't it true

 

[Bill Martino]

True but I don't know if it's funny or sad.

 

[Ferrous Wheel]

FLMAO! Funny and sad, just different sides on the sphere of emotion

Keith

 

[mattjerom]

Could we fund a fesability study to compare the above soultions. We wouldn't want to jump the gun and spend to much on a possible outcome

 

[munk]

for the best quality assurance analysis, we need to compare the dead horse to like kind, such as a dead desert Donkey or a 62 Volkswagon van.


munk

 

[raghorn]

I suspect that replacing a dead horse with a dead desert donkey would probably earn you special recognition for promoting diversity.

 

[Pappy]

Too bad we can't have all the money waisted by the governments across the US in one lump sum and feed some kids.
Like Giant U.S. Government office building that sets empty. I'm thinking that when I read that it was in Kentucky somewhere. The billions of dollars that was poured into northeast Texas and the proget was abandoned before completion because they found it was going to cost billions more to finish. A few dollars here and a few dollars there. What the hell the tax payers don't run out of money.

 

[munk]

The billions of dollars that was poured into northeast Texas and the proget was abandoned before completion because they found it was going to cost billions more to finish. >> Pappy

You mean the Supercollider? Pappy, the cost of tearing down what they'd done and filling in the gigantic holes was almost enough money to have finished it.

munk

 

[Pappy]

That was the big white elephant. You sure are right with the money they spent closing up shop they could have finished and had a few more job so folks wouldn't have to draw unemployment or go on welfare and increase the tax base at the same time.
Did you get the big knife yet? Let me know how you like it, OK?

 

[munk]

sure will.



munk