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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (98141)5/13/2003 11:15:05 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
<As Buddhists would say, this is like eating a porcupine; you have to see it through to its proper ending or you'll be in pain.>

There are other creative solutions to that problem:

Put it in a blender with ice, call it Quill Smoothie. The Hiroshima Solution.

Just say you ate it, declare victory and go home, while the porcupine slinks off into the wilderness. Say it repeatedly and loudly, if anyone sees the porcupine alive. The Afghan Solution.

Hire someone else to eat the porcupine for you. The Pinochet Solution.

(Why are Buddhists eating porcupines anyway? Aren't they vegetarians, reverencing all life, even the very prickly kind?)
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