Thread is so quiet, just like the Company. I have been losing money in this thing for longer than I care to remember. Thinking about it reminds me of the story that pops into my mind every time I say the company name----Three-Five. I hope my telling it doesn't get me 86ed.
Little Johnnie was in the habit of wetting his pants because he was too busy playing around the farm to come into the house and attend properly to business. Gramma tells Grampa to take the boy out behind the barn and show him the proper meaning of "the pause that refreshes". Grampa complies and when they are in the seclusion of the spot he tells Johnnie "Now, number one, you unbutton; number two, you expose the unit; number three you pull back; number four you whiz. After that, number five, you push it forward; number six you put it away and finally; number seven, you button up. Do you have that?" Johnnie says yes but just to verify it, Grampa has him do a couple of dry runs, so to speak. Satisfied with the prospects, Grampa goes on about the business of farming until, later that day as he rounds the corner of the barn, he comes upon Johnnie who is studiously practising the procedure but apparently has become fixated on the sequence "three-five, three-five, three-five, three-five".
Any of the rest of you get the sensation that holding TFS is just an exercise in "three-five, three-five"?
Frank |
