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Hello my friends,
I guess alot of people here has read the phrase
"A camel is a horse made by committeee"
and they are writing me of all people asking me that they read this in someones forum the last few days and wanted to know what it meant,So this is what I came up with,But I did write them personally and tell them what it really meant to the person who used it in there forum,Thought it was different.
A camel is a horse made by committee
What does the phrase:
"A camel is a horse designed by a committee
It's an ironic expression, used to show that deciding anything by committee, and therefore by taking too many opinions and wish-lists into account, will result in something that's probably vaguely similar to what was originally planned, but which won't be anywhere near as effective as was wanted. A camel and a horse are both ungulates, but the point is that the camel's both ugly and slow in comparison.
ahem...
Camels are fast and graceful. We can keep running long after horses have given out. Beauty is a beauty does.
There, there. Don't get your back up.
There was a minority opinion on the committee and they made a second model with two humps - proof, if proof were needed.
Let me qualify any statements I've made during this particular thread with the belated rider "present company of course excluded". I really don't want to give Ms. Camel the hump.
Indeed. I'd walk a mile not to.
Thanks, Kathy Martin
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