Of birds and bulls***

Its nice to know that our ministers have such a great sense of humour.

From the Electric New Paper, Sept 11:

RADM (NS) Lui titled the story, which was adapted from an Internet joke, Lessons For The Corporate World From The Animal Kingdom, and said there were lessons in the story which were applicable to the media industry.

"The story goes:

It was a beautiful autumn day. At the top of the trees, a bird was enjoying itself thoroughly. The chirping was especially joyous, loud and captivating.

A rabbit came along, gazed up at the bird and said it wished it too could take things easy.

The bird suggested that the rabbit try. The rabbit rested at the bottom of the tree, but a fox came along and ate it.

RADM Lui said: 'The first lesson ... is that to sit around and do nothing, we must be very high up.'

Then a turkey came along, and it also wanted to enjoy itself at the top of the tree.

The turkey consulted a cow, which said that there was energy in cow dung, because the cow had previously seen the farmer use it for fire.

So the turkey started munching on cow dung, felt stronger and, half-hopping and half-flying, made its way up the tree.

It almost reached the bird, but was gobbling the dung so furiously that the sound alerted the farmer. The farmer thought that the turkey would make a wonderful meal for Thanksgiving and shot it.

RADM Lui's second lesson?

'Bullsh** can get you near the top, but it takes more than bullsh** to keep you up there.'

In late autumn, the bird fell to the ground and was half-frozen.

The cow came along and, hoping to warm the bird up, deposited some of its fresh dung on the bird.

The bird started chirping, disgusted that it was in a pile of dung. The bird's din attracted the fox, who got the bird out of the dung, much to the bird's delight.

The fox cleaned the bird, then ate it.

The lesson?

1. Not everyone who drops sh** on you is your enemy.

2. Not everyone who takes you out of sh** is your friend.

3. Sometimes, when you're deep in sh**, it's better to keep your mouth shut."

I'll say this applies to almost every job out there.

Read the full article here: http://tnp.sg/news/story/0,4136,213294,00.html?

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Just realised today is 110909, 8 years to the day terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center. Has it been that long already?