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'think tank' is priceless... i always think of a tank with a bunch of intellectuals held underwater, with idea-bubbles coming up as they drown.

or lately, a bunker where at any deviation from destructive nastiness brings a sergeant-major type into the room, yelling 'think TANK! think TANK! think TANK! over and over till the errant step back in line.

maybe it's simpler, it's a place where once-great brains go to tank.

glug, tankyou...no, i'll tank you, i tink, you tank, fill 'er up.

the best is 'liberal', which used to mean free-minded, generous and caring, and now has morphed into scheming exploiters IMF-driving poor countries into debt, the middle class into extinction, and the chattering classes out screaming into the night.....or commie-pinko-dirty-hippie.

but that's what they do....take something noble and by the time they've finished with it, it's fit for the (undifferentiated) trash.

logicide, some have named it.

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sun Feb 24th, 2008 at 07:57:21 PM EST
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or lately, a bunker where at any deviation from destructive nastiness brings a sergeant-major type into the room, yelling 'think TANK! think TANK! think TANK! over and over till the errant step back in line.

So you have a bunch of interlectuals discussing a problem, and if the answer dosn't result in the army ending up with more tanks, then they're morallyu suspect, according to fox news?

Immigration out of control? The army needs more tanks.
MRSA virus out of control ? The army needs more tanks.

See it's a general purpose answer.

Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.

by ceebs (bunchofwankers (at) gmail (dot) com) on Sun Feb 24th, 2008 at 08:12:06 PM EST
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yup, ceebs, that's exactly what i meant!

you fleshed it out nicely :)

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sun Feb 24th, 2008 at 08:32:08 PM EST
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Yeah, lately I've also begun to associate the "tank" in "think tank" with the armoured vehicle more than the receptacle for fluids (not that I can't think up a number of less than flattering connotations for the latter; "septic tank" being one obvious association...).

- Jake

Ceterum censeo Chicago esse delendam

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Mon Feb 25th, 2008 at 02:12:18 PM EST
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