Hearing about this reminded me of an episode of Penn & Tellers "Bullshit". They installed a water waiter in a high end resturant, who gave fancy descriptions of the various waters on the menu. The customers could taste what the waiter told them. Meanwhile Penn&Teller were out back filling all the water bottles from a garden hose!
You're a peon. You're a peasant. You can have my share of all of it. I had my last glass of wine at least seven or eight years ago and have had no desire to repeat the experience. Half a glass makes me tipsy and it doesn't taste good enough to compensate for the loss of mental balance. Call me a lightweight. Call me a cheap date.
Reminds me of that scene in Roger Moore's second Bond flick when he is offered "Phu Yuck" wine. Only a Brit can sound that offended.
Cheap enough that myhusband has saved thousands by not having to ply me with liquor over the last half century.
Oh, yeah. We call our program Selling Ice to Eskimos. People are duuuummmmb. And the more money they have to burn, the dumber they are at the dinner table.
I'm getting the impression that you like Will Rogers' admonition that no one ever went broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
Yup. I quote that probably once or twice a month. Didn't know it was attributed to Will Rodgers, though, so thanks for that.
P T Barnum said it better i think. "A suck born every minute." Side note the site i checked to confirm the wording attributes under estimating the public to Barnum.
This being a site run for and by those officious intermeddlers (a legal aphorism) known as writers, no one can post anything here without fear of contradiction. As for the "underestimating" quotation, which I attributed off the top of my head, my copy of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations attributes it to H.L. Mencken and doesn't mention Barnum with relation to it. So perhaps you and I are both wrong. Not that it matters much as relates to the substance of the matter. As for your Barnum quotation, I'm presuming you meant "sucker."
No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. - H. L. Mencken (who also said, appropriate to these times, 'It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.')
One of the attorneys I used to work for repeatedly said that managing to graduate from law school didn't make a person bright.
At the time he made the statements, we were dealing with a particularly ineffectual and idiotic plaintiff's attorney who was the epitome of the phrase "dumb as a box of rocks." He was representing BOTH parties involved in a head-on collision and brought a lawsuit in district court against our client who was sitting in a truck in the barrow ditch at the time of the collision. Oh, yeah. Three day trial. Plaintiffs had no exhibits. Nada. Not even the accident report. Claim was the truck in the ditch distracted the driver who caused the accident, therefore our client was liable for damages. No. I am not kidding. Three days in freaking district court.
Curious why it made it to a full trial. Seems like it called for summary judgment or a directed verdict.
Not all states allow those if the defendant insists on a jury trial. But it does recall a jury summons I had some 30 years ago. It was in a District Court for public intoxication. During the voir dire process, the defense and prosecution kept asking potential jurors whether the defendant's sexual preferences or the fact he was lying the street in front of a gay bar were important. I didn't care and said so, but at the end, the judge asked if we would be able to assess the full range of penalties - to to $100, yes, one hundred dollars, maximum. I looked at the Judge, court clerk, constable, prosecutor and his assistant, public defender and her assistant and asked "we're spending thousands of dollars for a $100 fine?" I was not chosen for the jury.
Christ, you'd have to arrest half the city on any given Friday night. Cops around here are just happy you're not shooting anybody.
Well, he was sleeping in the street, using the curb as a pillow. They were concerned a pickup would flatten him. LOL
TMW you are actually doing well in your new position and your boss COMPLIMENTS your work ethic and is EXCITED for what else you have planned.... And you have a mini fear induced breakdown because of the trauma your last boss put you through. (I had a long talk about it with my peer mentor and im feeling better) Bonus: TMW you are 5 weeks into your new job and a massive curve ball hits and you are down 1 staffer (im hiring, yall!)
