Ever Negotiate With Lawyers At A Huge Company? If They Saw You
Drowning 100 Feet From The Shore, They'd Through You A 51-foot Rope
And Say They Went More Than Halfway.
Ever negotiate with lawyers at a huge company? If they saw you
drowning 100 feet from the shore, they'd through you a 51-foot rope
and say they went more than halfway.
-- Paul Somerson in 'PC Computing,' 1996
Related:
A conservative sees a man drowning fifty feet from shore. The conservative
throws the man a rope 25 feet long and tells the man to start swimming, all
the while wondering where he is going to send the bill for the 25 feet of
rope used in this effort....