Getting Nowhere Fast

 

What if you had a particular very important talent that you did not use? Would you agree that would be a shame?

What if you had within you the cure for all forms of cancer and you just did not bother because you were too busy doing useless stuff? Would you agree that would be a shame?

What if you could have read a good book but just sat and stared at a wall? Would you agree that would be a shame?

I am about to make those of you who love Facebook mad at me and that is going to be a shame but I gotta do what I gotta do.

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I think that the amount of time these two individuals below spent Face Booking at each other was a Waste of Time and a Shame...

“Investigators recovered more than 100,000 FaceBook messages between the two that were sent during the course of their two year relationship.”

Could they have accomplished something really useful, if they had spent that same amount of time trying to accomplish something really useful?

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I am not revealing who the Face Bookers were but, if I did tell you, you would know who they were because they have been in the news a lot.

It is not important who they are it is only import that you know that there are stupid people out and about in the Good Ole USofA.

Here are the numbers...

Ø 365 days in a year.

Ø 365 days times 2 = number of days in 2 years...730 days.

Ø 100,000 divided by 730 days = 137 messages per day.

Too bad they had to waste time sleeping or they could have run up some really big numbers.

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If Facebook had been invented on December 2, 1863 when the Union Pacific broke ground in Omaha, Nebraska to start the First Transcontinental Railroad’s westward construction, today those guys would still be eating their lunches in Nebraska expecting to cross into Wyoming any year now.

My mind’s eye in active today and it is picturing a New York Times Reporter’s Interview in progress at one of those lunches in Nebraska...

Ø Interviewer: How’s it going?

Ø Railroad Worker: O...Excuse me. I have a Facebook message coming in...K. What did you just ask me?

Ø Interviewer: I was about to ask if you been attacked by Indians?

Ø Railroad Worker: Of course, we have. Where have you been? We get attacked...Excuse me. I have a Facebook message coming in...every 23 minutes.

Ø Interviewer: Must be really hard to make progress under these harrowing conditions.

Ø Railroad Worker: Not really. We are rather pleased with how far we have gotten under these harrowing conditions. Why just...Excuse me. I have a Facebook message coming in...last month we were way back over there by that big tree.

Ø Interviewer: Well it seems to the outside world that youse (all reporters for the New York Times are required by the contact they sign with the NYT when they are hired to say “youse” instead of “y’all”) guys are sure moving slowly. When do you expect to be done because, while you are trying to get to Wyoming, jet airplanes are flying over your heads? CNN said last night that there is a good chance that your whole project is becoming unnecessary.

Ø Railroad Worker: Did you come all the way...Excuse me. I have a Facebook message coming in...out here to just show how much...Excuse me. I have a Facebook message coming in...of a wise guy you can be?

Ø Interviewer: Well I never! Hey, Vito, pack it...Excuse me. I have a Facebook message coming in...up. This hay seed has no respect...Excuse me. I have a Facebook message coming in...for the New York Times!

Here I go again. I’m reading My Dear Readers minds again. A whole bunch of you just thought to yourselves, “Fella is being silly again! Without a doubt in 160 years everyone knows the First Transcontinental Railroad’s Westward Construction would certainly be into Wyoming by now!”

Would I kid u?

Smartfella