Alligator Questions
This week’s rant is filler of the worst kind. Still, with the pd.o networks moving to a new home, and both of the Pint Day Saints wrapped up in an orgy of back-to-school activities, you have to be amazed we posted any new content at all.
Alligator Question is a phrase I first heard during a basketball refereeing seminar. As you can imagine, being a basketball referee involves a rather intimate knowledge of the rules of basketball. This knowledge must extend to a variety of rare, but possible what-if scenarios. As time goes on, these scenarios, usually posed in the form of audience questions, get more and more ludicrous. When the questions got particularly inane, the course instructor would often quip back:
What if an alligator pops up through the floor...
At this point, the attendee would realize that they had just asked an alligator question.
Where is all this leading? Well, the following are bullet points our minute taker actually jotted down during a Codetalker shareholder-agreement meeting. Admittedly, these are excerpts, but isn’t it hard to believe Codetalker isn’t one of the Fortune 500 now?
- Death and Dismemberment
- Phillipines - 6 Wives
- Kjell selling his desk
- Chris declared insane
- Sex Changes?
- Can I still vote if I kill Evan’s mom?
What’s the lesson out of all of this? Committees are a good way to achieve fairness and compromise. You keep compromising until everyone is equally unhappy.
Kjell Wooding
Tuesday, September 4, 2001
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