roger
It's ok...george has company...those medieval syllogisms. And it looks like he has some modern notions kicking about too. He'll make out fine.
It's good to have friends,
What shall we call this new thread?
The Rehashed Review of Endlessly Rehashed Unknowables Thread
a treatise on flogging dead horses and then expecting to ride them in the parade.
You cannot ride a dead horse, for god's sakes. They must be stuffed and then mounted at the four corners of your float, surrounded by tulips is best. Using hair spray and mousse, the tails can be artfully sculpted such that Buttons, Old Rosebud, Chick O War, and Teabiscuit will seem to be coursing in full heart down Main Street. A nice touch (for the kids) that we used last year in our Homeland Defence Spring Parade was the addition of large red wax cartoon lips to the four thoroughdeads.
blatham wrote:You cannot ride a dead horse, for god's sakes.
I found, however, this on the web - and it sounds quite good and reasonable! :wink:
Quote: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." However, in modern government, 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 other cultures ride dead horses.
6. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
7. Reclassifying 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. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
14. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
The art of riding a dead horse
That reminded me of something else I read lately (author unknown)... have you seen this before?
S.H.I.T.
TO: ALL EMPLOYEES
FR: MANAGEMENT
RE: SPECIAL HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING
In order to assure the highest levels of quality work and
productivity from employees, it will be our policy to keep all
employees well trained through our program of SPECIAL HIGH
INTENSITY TRAINING (S.H.I.T.). We are trying to give employees more
S.H.I.T. than anyone else.
If you feel that you do not receive your share of S.H.I.T. on the
job, please see your manager. You will be immediately placed at the
top of the S.H.I.T. list, and our managers are especially skilled at
seeing that you get all the S.H.I.T. you can handle.
Employees who don't take their S.H.I.T. will be placed in DEPARTMENTAL
EMPLOYEE EVALUATION PROGRAMS (D.E.E.P. S.H.I.T.). Those who fail to
take D.E.E.P. S.H.I.T. seriously will have to go to EMPLOYEE ATTITUDE
TRAINING (E.A.T. S.H.I.T.). Since our managers took S.H.I.T. before
they were promoted, they don't have to do S.H.I.T. anymore, and are
all full of S.H.I.T. already. If you are full of S.H.I.T., you may
be interested in a job training others.
We can add your name to our BASIC UNDERSTANDING LECTURE LIST
(B.U.L.L. S.H.I.T.). Those who are full of B.U.L.L. S.H.I.T. will get the
S.H.I.T. jobs, and can apply for promotion to DIRECTOR OF INTENSITY
PROGRAMMING (D.I.P. S.H.I.T.).
If you have further questions, please direct them to our HEAD OF
TRAINING, SPECIAL HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING (H.O.T. S.H.I.T.).
Thank you,
BOSS IN GENERAL
SPECIAL HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING
(B.I.G. S.H.I.T.)
Walter
Those are excellent tips. Could I add a fifteenth?
15. Stand it beside Dick Cheney.
segue back to affirmative action==last nite on a local PBS station was an interview with Harry Belafonte and he was talking about when he was asked to appear on the Ed Sullivan show in the late 50's and Ed called him into his office because he had received a memo stating that Harry was on the subversive activities list for supporting civil rights activities. Harry not only admitted his activities, he added some more to the list that Ed had and then told Ed that he would withdraw his scheduled appearance. Later that day Ed confirmed that Harry would indeed appear on his show and the result was that, because Ed had Harry on his show Harry was dropped from the black list. Its a strange world we live in...
dys
Good story, I hadn't know that. A lesson in why we ought to keep talking.
george
Ignore those two dorkenheimers above.
I'll be willing to do this with you, but only if we keep it narrow and focused to start and as we proceed. For example, I'd be willing to take up your statement...
Quote:biologists are now confronted with contradictions between accepted notions of orderly genetic evolution and the age of the planet - there just hasn't been enough time for the specified process to have done what we observe has been done.
or to look at the epistemological argument you make.
Dorkenheimers ? ! ? ! ?
How very Menonite of you . . .
I thought menonite had been recalled by the EPA
Only that awful, demode Pennsylvania Dutch decor, Dys. REAL Mennonites are dark and gloomy and good and generous.
We are dark and gloomy (though sexually magnificent) and spelled correctly by one out of three. We hold the following truths to be self-evident - orr in the case of Setanta and dyslexia, other-evident - and the following rules for living to be nifty.
- pudgy women are just fine
- baking that makes bakers pudgy is really fine
- watermellon is NOTHING without roll kuchen
- revelation is found in simple things, like plowing and breasts
- god likes us way better than he likes you
- wars are populated by everyone other than those who want them and bring them about
- don't buy anything unnecessary. The one exception is Florient Summer Manure.
- avoid the modern, like ride-on mixmasters and fur-lined sinks. If you need to mow the front lawn, just walk really slowly holding up the rear legs of a goat.
- learn to play a musical instrument
Very good Blatham! As for sexual magnificence, I don't know. I only spent one night with a Mennonite. It was a tad chilly and very dark. Up betimes.
blatham, Only your last one made any sense to me! LOL c.i.
Blatham, what the hell is roll kuchen?
It's a speciality from Russian-German Mennonites
Rollkuchen
blatham wrote:george
Ignore those two dorkenheimers above.
I'll be willing to do this with you, but only if we keep it narrow and focused to start and as we proceed. For example, I'd be willing to take up your statement...
Quote:biologists are now confronted with contradictions between accepted notions of orderly genetic evolution and the age of the planet - there just hasn't been enough time for the specified process to have done what we observe has been done.
or to look at the epistemological argument you make.
I did start a thread on the secular question. Perhaps I don't understand the question you wish to discuss. Why don't you pose it?
