astorian:
"It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile."
I smile when I’m happy, I frown when I’m not. The amount of muscular exertion either expression would require doesn’t enter into it.
You wouldn’t want my face to get all flabby, would you?
Any one of the redneck “shut up, be a man, and just do it”-type phrases: cowboy up , git r done , and so on.
Gala_Matrix_Fire:
I haven’t read the whole thread, so I hope this isn’t a dupe.
I have always hated this lion motivational poster (although the image on the one I remember was slightly different).
It’s a picture of a male lion and the text reads, “Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed…every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle…when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.”
Some gazelles are nocturnal, therefore they aren’t waking up in the morning.
Lions are mostly nocturnal, and therefore aren’t waking up in the morning.
A gazelle only has to run faster than the slowest gazelle.
Lions hunt cooperatively, and therefore don’t have to outrun their prey.
In most cases, a male lion such as the one on the poster does his hunting by sauntering over to whatever carcass the females killed and chasing them off.
If a lion can’t kill a gazelle, it can eat a rodent. It isn’t going to starve to death without killing a gazelle every day.
The point is, the people who got the executive jobs because of their daddies or their cronies want you to think they’re lions, not remoras.
elmwood:
Any one of the redneck “shut up, be a man, and just do it”-type phrases: cowboy up , git r done , and so on.
I happen to agree - but would **Project Runway’s Tim Gunn’s **catchphrase of “Make it Work!” qualify? He is rather famously a non-redneck in every way imaginable…
That one seems different to me. I guess the subtext is cautious encouragement, a general meaning of, “There’s an interesting premise here, and it shows potential, but you need to be sure you apply a critical eye and don’t get so carried away that you present something that’s poorly constructed and/or over the top.”
I don’t know who originated the phrase but it fits.
“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.”
runner pat:
I believe that quote originated during the 1988 presidential campaign and was about George H W Bush, but I don’t recall who the actual speaker was. I’m certain it wasn’t Michael Dukakis.
I believe it was the amusing Ann Richards, the governor whom Mr. Bush’s son succeeded on his way to become president his ownself.
I don’t think the third base line is meatn to be motivating or helpful in any way. It’s just an insult.
Skald , I don’t think **runner pat **(or anyone else) was saying it was–just saying that it fit the circumstance well.
Whoa, excellent analysis.
