Q: What do you get when you push a full-grown elephant through a strainer with twenty-six holes?
I will update this tomorrow to further explain the question and answer. For now just use your imaginations.
P.S. Think outside of the box, man!
Points for Bateman who gave me a good answer.
Be more imaginative! Come on, people! Work with me here!
Okay, so. I was actually going somewhere with this silly pachydermic conundrum.
Let's suppose the strainer with twenty-six holes is larger than the elephant and is an integral part of some immovable object. Let's also suppose the elephant is being pushed by an irresistible force.
What you might get is twenty-six strands of gooey, smelly, slimy elephant spaghetti.
Now, how similar is this elephant spaghetti to the original animal? Not so much. If you hadn't known it was an elephant in the first place, you might not recognize it at all.
The point being...
So it is with words. We use cumbersome vocal constructs to communicate complex concepts by squeezing them through the twenty-six letter of the alphabet in predetermined sound patterns to convey thoughts, feelings, ideas, so on. How often do you think the result actually resembles the original concept?
This would explain the many, many misunderstandings in this world. You must take everything you hear or read with a grain of salt. If it can be put into words - either spoken or written - do not consider it truth.
I'll leave it at that for now.
'Going Deeper' by Jean-Claude Koven
I will update this tomorrow to further explain the question and answer. For now just use your imaginations.
P.S. Think outside of the box, man!
Points for Bateman who gave me a good answer.
Be more imaginative! Come on, people! Work with me here!
Okay, so. I was actually going somewhere with this silly pachydermic conundrum.
Let's suppose the strainer with twenty-six holes is larger than the elephant and is an integral part of some immovable object. Let's also suppose the elephant is being pushed by an irresistible force.
What you might get is twenty-six strands of gooey, smelly, slimy elephant spaghetti.
Now, how similar is this elephant spaghetti to the original animal? Not so much. If you hadn't known it was an elephant in the first place, you might not recognize it at all.
The point being...
So it is with words. We use cumbersome vocal constructs to communicate complex concepts by squeezing them through the twenty-six letter of the alphabet in predetermined sound patterns to convey thoughts, feelings, ideas, so on. How often do you think the result actually resembles the original concept?
This would explain the many, many misunderstandings in this world. You must take everything you hear or read with a grain of salt. If it can be put into words - either spoken or written - do not consider it truth.
I'll leave it at that for now.
'Going Deeper' by Jean-Claude Koven
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UmmmI started as an ECG Tech in 1992 whilst I was still in college. Then a few years ago I left that field and became a Freight Operations Manager for a large trucking company. That job was hell but working 13 hour days managing 100 Teamsters on forklifts taught me bibles of truth about the human condition. I left & came back to my company and they made me a manager.
I like what I do. Not necessarily the cardiac safety field but people. My whole life I have helped people. I was a coach. I have always been in charge (not in a Napolean kinda way). I seem to be good at getting people to do things they didnt think they could. It also has a price. And is draining. I think because I care.
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ps --- I'm in a Texas Hold'em tourny tomorrow....
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Thank you.
Have you ever been to Ireland?
[Edited on Apr 30, 2005 2:24AM]