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Grex Agora46 Item 10: Summer's the time for laughs
Entered by russ on Mon Jun 23 03:21:45 UTC 2003:

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#15 of 93 by oval on Mon Jun 23 18:11:14 2003:

>GLOBAL ECONOMICS DE-MYSTIFIED                                            
   
>                                                                         
   
>SOCIALISM:                                                               
   
>You have 2 cows and you give one to your neighbour.                      
   
>                                                                         
   
>COMMUNISM:                                                               
   
>You have 2 cows, the Government takes both and                           
   
>gives you some milk.                                                     
   
>                                                                         
   
>FASCISM:                                                                 
   
>You have 2 cows, the Government takes both and                           
   
>sells you some milk.                                                     
   
>                                                                         
   
>NAZISM:                                                                  
   
>You have 2 cows. The Government takes both and                           
   
>shoots you.                                                              
   
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>BUREAUCRATISM:                                                           
   
>                                                                         
   
>You have 2 cows; the Government takes both,                              
   
>shoots one, milks the other and throws the milk away...                  
   
>                                                                         
   
>TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM:                                                  
   
>You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.                          
   
>Your herd multiplies,and the economy grows. You sell them and            
   
>retire on the income.                                                    
   
>                                                                         
   
>AN AMERICAN CORPORATION:                                                 
   
>You have two cows. You sell one, and force the                           
   
>other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a                
   
>consultant to analyze why the cow dropped dead.                          
   
>                                                                         
   
>A FRENCH CORPORATION:                                                    
   
>You have two cows. You go on strike because you                          
   
>want three cows.                                                         
   
                    
>A JAPANESE CORPORATION:                                                  
   
>You have two cows. You redesign them so they are                         
   
>one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times           
   
>the milk.                                                                
   
>You then create a clever cow cartoon image called Cowkimon and           
   
>market them                                                              
   
>World-Wide.                                                              
   
>                                                                         
   
>A GERMAN CORPORATION:                                                    
   
>You have two cows. You reengineer them so they live for 100              
   
>years,eat once a month, and milk themselves.                             
   
>                                                                         
   
>A BRITISH CORPORATION:                                                   
   
>You have two cows. Both are mad.                                         
   
>                                                                         
   
>AN ITALIAN CORPORATION:                                                  
   
>You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for      
   
>lunch.                    

>A RUSSIAN CORPORATION:                                                   
   
>You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows.You       
   
>count them again and learn you have 42 cows.                             
   
>You count them again and learn you have 2 cows. You stop counting        
   
>cows and                                                                 
   
>open another bottle of vodka.                                            
   
>                                                                         
   
>A SWISS CORPORATION:                                                     
   
>You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge others       
   
>for storing them.                                                        
   
>                                                                         
   
>A CHINESE CORPORATION:                                                   
   
>You have two cows. You have 300 people milking                           
   
>them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and           
   
>arrest the newsman who reported the numbers.                             
   
>                                                                         
   
>AN ARKANSAS CORPORATION:                                                 
   
>You have two cows. That one on the left is kinda cute...    

>AN INDIAN CORPORATION:                                                   
   
>You have two cows. You worship them.                                     
   
                                                                          
   
                                      


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