If you start with a cage containing five monkeys and inside the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under the banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana.
As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold water. After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result ... all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it. Now, put the cold water away.
Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs. To his shock, all of the other monkeys beat the crap out of him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys, replacing it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment... with enthusiasm.
Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs. Neither do they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
Finally, having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, none of the monkeys will try to climb the stairway for the banana.
Why, you ask? Because in their minds... that is the way it has always been!
This, my friends, is how Congress operates... and is why, from time to time, all of the monkeys need to be REPLACED.
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Schteveo, with a tip o'the hat to LB for sending this to me
7 comments:
Probably the best explanation I have seen yet.
And the fact that the Tea Party Congresscritters flinched over Social Security cuts this week proves it to me!!
I think I'll skip the banana and go for the porterhouse. It's safer. Damned vegans go nuts when they don't get proper nutritien.
Hey Bill, i was thinking of you last Wed. I took my car back to the dealer out in Manhassett for service and about a mile up Northern Blvd. is my 2nd most favorite steakhouse. Bryant & Cooper. I had a 2" Porterhouse that was so great i can still taste it! Best $100. bucks i ever spent.
As for congress? I say hang them all!
And one of the best steaks I ever had (excluding my own) was in the mid-west with Regularguy.
Best steak I ever had, 1979, Auckland New Zealand, Porterhouse, 22 oz, a baked potato the size of my foot (with a mud boot over my shoes), a salad made in a peck basket...and Speight's Ale, on draft. (3 or 4)
I was full for two days and that was THE best steak I ever ate hands down.
(BTW dessert came with that, cheese cake...2 slices, with a scoop each of french vanilla ice cream and sour cream)
(crap, I just had lunch and now I'm hungry again)
All who flinched, will be lynched!
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