Changing light bulbs on the Forum

[Richard Bingham]

Thanks for the laugh, Steven! What's also funny is the "similar topics" that comes up with the thread !

[Michele Rushworth]

Steven, this is fantastic. And I thought we were the only ones engaged in such foolishness. (Now somebody's going to post here and take offense that I implied that they were "foolish", and someone else will post to say that a better word might have been "silliness" so that no one would take offense, and on and on..... Thanks for the laugh!

[Enzie Shahmiri]

I am chuckling! Well said....

[SB Wang]

Steven:
One of Krylov's fables could be a supplementary reading:

CRAYFISH, SWAN, AND PIKE
(Translation of I. Krylov*'s fable;
to the Holy Trinity of the First Bush's Term -
White House, State Department, and Pentagon)



Let crayfish, swan and pike

Draw heavy loaded cart,

Each being just a part

Of harness they dislike.



They try a lot, and everyone

Starts pulling it with zeal;

The problem is that each of them

With his path wants to deal!



The swan makes upward for a cloud,

The crayfish falls behind;

The pike dives sharply in the deep,

And cart moves not from site.



The moral of the verse is that

Accordance should prevail

Amid the people who have plans

To work but not in vain.







* Ivan Krylov