Not much of an incentive for the #4 guy to want a good performance review. ( "Abdullah, you've been doing good work and are definitely in line for a promotion ... " )
>>>>>I wasn't refuting our population, just that the growth rates are relative. I think it will be a long time before we will all die from swimming in our own poop.
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>>>>Ah, but what about other people's poop.
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>>>>As Nigel Tuffnell said about Spinal Tap's last drummer 'He choked on his own vomit - well, I mean, whose vomit would he have choked on ... '
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>>>"That wasn't proved." LOL
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>>>In one of my jobs we had an executive position that was a revolving door. One of the young guys likened it to being a drummer in Spinal Tap <g>.
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>>Or #3 man in Al Queda
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>LOL. Exactly!
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>It's funny because you never even hear who the #3 guy is until he gets killed. "You shot who? Oh, good. Yup, he's the one, he was #3."
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>Remember the PR game the Pentagon and the administration played for us before the first Gulf War, about the Iraqi army? Those scary, scary "elite Republican Guards." "The world's fourth largest army." What we quickly found out was there was a hell of a dropoff from #3 to #4. The same gap seems to exist between #2 and #3 in Al Qaeda.
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