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The IBM salesman and the IBM system analyst went to spend a weekend in the forest, hunting bear.
They hired a log cabin, and when they got there, took their backpacks off and put them inside.
At which point the salesman said to the systems analyst: "You unpack while I go and find us a bear."
The analyst finished unpacking and then went and sat outside to await events. He did not have to wait too long.
Soon he could hear noises in the forest. The noises got nearer - and suddenly there was the salesman, running across the clearing toward the cabin, pursued by one of the largest and most ferocious Brown Bears the analyst had ever seen.
"Open the door!" shouted the salesman. The analyst opened the door. The salesman ran to the door, suddenly stopped, and stepped aside.
The Bear carried by its momentum, continued though the door and disappeared inside.
The salesman promptly shut the door on it, turned, looked at the analyst, and said:
"Ok, you skin that one while I go rustle us up another."
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
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