[Rhodes22-list] dead horses

[Steve Alm]

Brad.  Hilarious!
Slim

On 9/12/02 9:03 AM, "brad haslett" <flybrad@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> 
> Anybody see any parallels here?
> 
> 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.  Sending a delegation to 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.
> 
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