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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: Ian Price on February 24, 2009, 10:04:56 PM
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One of my old school teachers just sent me this. It made me chuckle (and then think about it a bit more)......
I am not sure if this is a Fable or a Parable, but the message is clear........
Aesop's Fable - Gordon and the Horse
A young man named Gordon bought a horse from an old farmer for £100. The farmer agreed to deliver the horse the next day, but when the Farmer drove up he said, - 'Sorry son, but I have some bad news... the horse is on my truck, but unfortunately he's dead.' Gordon replied, 'Well then, just give me my money back.' The farmer said, 'I can't do that, because I've spent it already.' Gordon said, 'OK then, we'll just unload the horse anyway.' The farmer asked, 'What are you going to do with him?' Gordon answered, 'I'm going to raffle him off.' To which the farmer exclaimed, 'Surely you can't raffle off a dead horse!' But Gordon, with a wicked smile on his face said, 'Of course I can, you watch me. I just won't bother to tell anybody that he's dead.'
A month later the farmer met up with Gordon and asked, 'What Happened with that dead horse?' Gordon said, 'I raffled him off, sold 500 tickets at two pounds apiece, and made a huge, fat profit!!' Totally amazed, the farmer asked, 'Didn't anyone complain that you had stolen their money because you lied about the horse being dead?' To which Gordon replied, 'The only guy who found out about the horse being dead was the raffle winner when he came to claim his prize. So I gave him his £2 raffle ticket money back plus an extra £200, which as you know is double the going rate for a horse, so he thought I was a great guy!!'
Gordon grew up and eventually became the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and no matter how many times he lied, or how much money he stole from the British voters, as long as he gave them back some of the stolen money, most of them, unfortunately, still thought he was a great guy.
The moral of this story is that, if you think Gordon is about to play fair and do something for the everyday people of the country for once in his miserable, lying life, think again my friend, because you'll be better off flogging a dead Horse!!!!
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Very good and couldn't agree more. :D
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I don't get it. PDT_008
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hahaha, nice :)
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I don't get it. PDT_008
Count yourself lucky :roll: ;)
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You want real fear think of the alternative.
Brown (New Labour) V Blair (New Conservative) V Blair (New Liberal Democrat)
We are $%&#ed!
Even the old version had a better chance of working (though most pivotal people voted completely wrong IMO)
bar-steward (New Labour) V Vampire (Conservative) V The Man With The Letter Zogg In His Name (Liberal Democrat)
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I think it's going to take the second coming and some to put things right in the UK!
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I think we either need a benevolent coup or for a candidate to come into the main parties that has one scr@p of integrity and he'd get my vote.
If we all were to lobby for this individual we might just win out (look at Barack Obama in the US to see how this has happened before just recently.).
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I think we either need a benevolent coup or for a candidate to come into the main parties that has one scr@p of integrity and he'd get my vote.
If we all were to lobby for this individual we might just win out (look at Barack Obama in the US to see how this has happened before just recently.).
I've been praying for a coup for the last 3 years! :lol:
Do you remember the comic strip, 'Eat The Rich'? The Prime Minister was 'Nosher' from Mile End. He is just what we need!! :lol: :lol:
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One day I'll run for election and create the Socialist Replublic of Scotland. It'll be awesome.
Financial worries will vanish overnight.
Alternatively I'll sit and sulk as we get independence and have to pay £6 for a pint, but at least we'll lurch to the left :lol: