lol, this is hysterical.

--- Trisha Cummings <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Indian tribal wisdom says that when you discover you
> are riding a dead
> horse, the best strategy is to dismount.
> In business and politics, however, it seems that
> often they try other
> strategies with dead horses, including the
> following. . .
>
> 1. Buying a stronger whip.
> 2. Changing riders.
> 3. Saying things like "This is the way we always
> have ridden this =
> horse."
> 4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
> 5. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they
> ride dead horses.
> 6. Decreasing the standards to ride dead horses.
> 7. Appointing a management team to revive the dead
> horse.
> 8. Creating a training session to increase our
> riding ability.
> 9. Issuing a favorable press release about the state
> of dead horses in
> today's environment.
> 10. Change the requirements declaring that "This
> horse is not dead."
> 11. Hire contractors to ride the dead horse.
> 12. Harnessing several dead horses together for
> increased speed.
> 13. Declaring that "No horse is too dead to win."
> 14. Providing additional funding to increase the
> horse's performance.
> 15. Do a study to see if Mexican ' wet backs ' can
> ride it cheaper.
> 16. Purchase several products to make dead horses
> run faster.
> 17. Declare your horse is "better, faster and
> cheaper" dead.
> 18. Form a quality circle to find uses for dead
> horses.
> 19. Revisit the performance requirements for horses
> in general.
> 20. Announce that this horse was procured with a
> cost adjustment as an
> independent variable....and get a CPA firm to 'sign
> off ' on that.
> 21. Promote the dead horse to an Assistant V.P
> position.
> 22. Hire an investment banking firm to divest of the
> dead horse.
> 23. Apply for a government EPA subsidy to pay for
> the disposal of the =
> dead
> horse. 24. Offer the horse on Ebay.


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