Slippery Slopes #7: Hard Work

There is just no substitute for hard work.

Well, other than –

a head start;
bias in your favor;
a trust fund;
plagiarism copy and paste;
working for your uncle;
rebuttable presumptions;
sub-contracting;
being a president’s kid; and
that whole ‘rather lucky than good’ thing.

Slippery Slopes #6: the looping jingle

Upon requesting a Slippery Slopes guest post from a friend, I immediately received the following response:

I can never think of things on the spot like this…

I do know, however, that if you get a crappy song stuck in your head, start singing Aerosmith’s, “Sweet Emotion” and voila! the other song will disappear.  That’s like my best discovery ever.

Slippery Slopes #5: Impossible

Recent wisdom from 7-yr-old boy:

Lots of things are impossible … right before you do them.

Slippery Slopes

A lot of people have told me washing their car makes it rain. If that were true, it seems like it would rain more. What are they trying to hide?

Slippery Slopes #3: one from he who has no equal

An important perspective from Jack Handy:

If you’re a cowboy and you’re dragging a guy behind your horse, I bet it would really make you mad if you looked back and the guy was reading a magazine.

Slippery Slopes #2: Integrity

You can always spot the people with integrity; they admit they love Barry Manilow (… or Tron).

Slippery Slopes: the first

I have always wondered…

Why is it that we never see any really good goth golfers?

[It is my intention that "Slippery Slopes" posts will be a (near) daily event.  The name was selected in honor of one of the crappiest arguments of all time (because in my opinion it concedes the opposition's point, yet persists with the claim that the opposing view would have horrible effects, when taken to its extreme).  It is my hope that Slippery Slopes -- at least once in a while -- makes your thought process step back and gather itself to take another run at a concept.]