Just got this e-mail-What a great example of writing!!

Subject: BEATING A DEAD HORSE

The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that,

"When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."

However, in government, education, and in corporate America, more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:

1. Buying a stronger whip.

2. Changing riders.

3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.

4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.

5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.

6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.

7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.

9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead
horse's performance.

10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.

11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.

12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.

And of course....

13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

Don’t forget:

Establishing the dead horse category as a disadvantaged minority with concomitant entitlements

Calling dead horses an endangered species, and encouraging the shooting of live horses to increase the dead horse population

Pointing out through a vigorous media campaign that dead horses suffer greatly and unfairly from global warming, justifying further expenditures to benefit Al Gore

Awarding a Nobel Prize to the pioneer that raises the consciousness of the public to the plight of dead horses