On 07/26/2015 at 08:51 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 12:02:07PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
>> Much of this discussion reminds me of an old Monty Python skit >> ending with the line "Lucky we didn't say anything about the dirty >> knife". :) > > IIRC, it was a dirty fork. No - they _did_ say something about the dirty fork, and the restaurant's response led to personal apologies from the waiter, the headwaiter, and the manager, the firing of the people who wash the dishes, and the suicide of the manager in despair over this egregious failure, plus the cook having some kind of seizure out of fury that they would complain so much (as to lead to that suicide) about something so small. At which point - with the cook unconscious or something - the man turns to the camera and says, "Lucky we didn't say anything about the dirty knife!". The point being that one tiny complaint got a huge overreaction, and things escalated to a ridiculous proportion without any further input from the person who originally made the tiny complaint. This thread isn't on that scale, obviously, but I can see the argument for a parallel. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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