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markbark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-27-11 08:50 AM
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A Parable for Our Times
Mr. UnionizedPublicEmployee, Mr. TeaPartyMember and Mr.CEO together decide that they are going to make a batch of cookies.
Mr. CEO buys sugar, flour, butter, eggs and chocolate chips.
Mr. UnionizedPublicEmployee measures all the ingredients, carefully following the recipe.
Mr. TeaPartyMember mixes the ingredients and with the help of the Mr. UnionizedPublicEmployee, parcels out the resultant batter onto cookie sheets and together they pop them in the oven.
After ten minutes or so, they take the cookies out of the oven and place them onto racks to cool.
They all sit down at the kitchen table to enjoy the fruit of their labor -- a beautiful plate of a dozen freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. Mr. CEO reaches across and takes 11 cookies, looks at Mr. TeaPartyMember and says, "Watch out for that union guy, he wants a piece of your cookie."
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-27-11 08:51 AM
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1. Excellent!
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-27-11 08:52 AM
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2. slight note: make sure you say they've made one dozen cookies. .n/t
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markbark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-27-11 08:55 AM
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3. Um....
"They all sit down at the kitchen table to enjoy the fruit of their labor -- a beautiful plate of a dozen freshly baked chocolate chip cookies."

I thought I did?
:P
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Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 08:30 AM
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4. This is the earliest of five threads on this.
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