Humor #54
THANKS TO RETA NICHOLSON WITH ADDITION FROM JIM JARMAN
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 education, government and community empowerment
agencies, a whole range of far more advanced strategies are often employed,
such as:
1) Buying a stronger whip to use on said horse.
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 private contractors to ride the dead horse.
9) Harnessing several dead horses together to increase the speed.
10) Providing additional funding and 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 far 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.
15) The hero and a small group of others were cornered in the desert with little
protective cover. The hero had everyone dismount and ran off the horses. One of
the group looked at he hero and said, "why did you run off the horses?" "We could
have shot them and used them for cover!" The hero looked at him and said in an
informative tone of voice, "You've never been trapped in the desert with a dead
horse before."