Is it on the web, Ken?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to
> poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Kenneth Wolman
> Sent: 02 December 2005 02:53
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: comedy in the Bush
>
> Peter Cudmore wrote:
>
> >>If you have ever
> >>seen scientists "teaming," the expression Herding Cats
> should come to
> >>mind.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Funny, the first time I ever heard the 'herding cats' thing,
> it was in
> >relation to getting poets organized!
> >
> >P
> >
> >
> I learned the term from my own cats:-). No, actually there is a
> legendary TV commercial for EDS, the data services company founded by
> Ross Perot--it was broadcast during the 2000 Superbowl. I didn't
> remember the product but remembered the commercial...the sign of an
> inherently bad ad, but it was funny. I found a copy recently
> at the ad
> agency's website. "Herding cats"I am pretty certain began in
> the data
> processing and tech industries around the idea that tekkies are so
> hyperindependent that they behave like cats. You cannot get them to
> work together, and the person who can becomes a hero.
>
> I would send the .mov file to anyone who wants to laugh
> wildly (it's one
> of the funniest things I've ever seen) but I've discovered it simply
> will not post. It's mammoth and I'm not sure how well it
> would survive
> compression and decompression on the other end.
>
> Ken
>
> --
> ----------------------------------------
> Kenneth Wolman www.kenwolman.com kenwolman.blogspot.com
>
> 39. Not observing the imperfections of others, preserving
> silence and a
> continual communion with God will eradicate great
> imperfections from the
> soul and make it the possessor of great virtues.
> --St. John of the Cross, Maxims on Love (The Minor Works)
>
|