Dead Horse

[Swampfox]

The tribal wisdom of the Lakota Sioux, passed on from generation to generation, says: "When you discover that you are on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."

However, in government, education, and in corporate America, 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 for foreign travel 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 outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.

9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.

10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.

11. Declaring that the dead horse does not have to be fed, costs less, has lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do other horses.

12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.

And of course...

13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

[Vince]

Other suggestions:

Build a fire and cook it.

Give it a government bail-out.

In the historically-accurate movie, Band of Brothers, the American soldiers had been eating cold beans for three days. A German messenger. lost in the woods, rode his horse right into the Americans, who shot the horse and the rider. A truck took the horse away, and the next day there were chunks of meat in their beans.

[Swampfox]

Other suggestions:

Build a fire and cook it.

Give it a government bail-out.

In the historically-accurate movie, Band of Brothers, the American soldiers had been eating cold beans for three days. A German messenger. lost in the woods, rode his horse right into the Americans, who shot the horse and the rider. A truck took the horse away, and the next day there were chunks of meat in their beans.

Horse was once eaten a lot, especially if it was going to have to be put down anyhow. I am quite certain that if the situation is desperate enough, anything become appetizing. Note the Donner Party.

[rightymo]

It's called "survival of the hungriest"!

[Drummer Dave]

As funny as it sounds, it's true! We call these folks educated beyond their means. They simply had more training than they were able to grasp and put into function. It's too bad "sheep skins" are valued more than common sence.

[WK4J]

The tribal wisdom of the Lakota Sioux, passed on from generation to generation, says: "When you discover that you are on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."

However, in government, education, and in corporate America, 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 for foreign travel 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 outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.

9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.

10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.

11. Declaring that the dead horse does not have to be fed, costs less, has lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do other horses.

12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.

And of course...

13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

A pastor I dearly love used to say it this way. "If the horse is dead. Dismount". That's how he delt with programs in the church that were being done for tradition rather than effectiveness.

Dennis