Sacred Cows
“If you’re going to kill a sacred cow, grill it nice and thick, and don’t smother it in cheap steak sauce. Anything less is eternal disrespect.”
Inspired by David Armano on Twitter.
Tags: Humor
This entry was posted by Ike on April 17, 2008 at 4:00 pm, and is filled under My Quotes, Philosophy. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.
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Well, I Had to Kill the Kids’ Hamster
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It’s time for the return of the Demotivational Devotional.
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(Another classic from the mcarp archives… the prophetic genius and brilliance are his;
the ones/zeros, pixels, pictures and subheads and pull-quotes are mine.)
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about 3 weeks ago - 1 comment
On of the communication challenges for any business or organization is sticking with your core competency and staying on message.
Below, you’ll find an example of how to fail.
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Failure by the Numbers
about 1 month ago - 2 comments
Sudoku.
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I got a book of puzzles for Christmas, and things finally slowed down enough I could check it out.
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The Bumpit is a toothed, plastic arc that is embedded near the scalp to provide the illusion of more voluminous hair.
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“I embraced my inner nerd – the jury called it ‘choking,’ but that is just semantics.”
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