Thursday 3 January 2008

Political Science for Dummies

I found this on the internet and thought it was really funny! Have fun reading :D

DEMOCRATIC
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful.
Barbara Streisand sings for you.

REPUBLICAN
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?

SOCIALIST
You have two cows.
The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.

COMMUNIST
You have two cows.
The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
You wait in line for hours to get it.
It is expensive and sour.

CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.

BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
Under the new farm program the government pays you to shoot one, milk the other, and then pours the milk down the drain.

AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one.
You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the analysts stating you have downsized and are reducing expenses.
Your stock goes up.

FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch and drink wine.
Life is good.

JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.

GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour.
Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.

ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows but you don't know where they are.
While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman.
You break for lunch.
Life is good.

BELGIAN CORPORATION
You have one cow.
The cow is schizophrenic.
Sometimes the cow thinks he's French, other times he's Flemish.
The Flemish cow won't share with the French cow.
The French cow wants control of the Flemish cow's milk.
The cow asks permission to be cut in half.
The cow dies happy.

10 comments:

Yin said...

i'm here!!

shobana s. said...

yayyy :D

Unknown said...

Oh God!!.. i have read this so many times before.. but yet, everytime i die laughing when i read it!...

Anonymous said...

very well done shobie. had something similar on my wall in KL it had one more: Dictatorship - you have 2 cows the goverment takes both and shoots you. Buy me cigarettes when you come back to melbourne please :)

Anonymous said...

hello Shobie! i just got your email about your blog. so exciting! i think its quite cool. and this post is really funny and quite true! (sorry for the exclamation marks)

shobana s. said...

haha, yeah I actually read it like a few months ago but couldn't find the website again. was so glad I found it this time :D

shobana s. said...

anannd, if you get your other friends who are also buying cigarettes for you to buy one pack more than they were plannign to, you won't need me to buy you cigarettes anymore :p good plan?

betakappa said...

well, when you buy a pack, its duty free, and its only duty free for the first pack.

RM 60 for a carton at the Malaysian dutyfree shop. In Australia a carton would cost $100, or RM300.

Thats why.

Just in case you didnt know.

anyhow.. you missed out the

Indian Corporation:

You have 2 cows.
You worship them.

Bwahahahaha.

My name is Mazwah. said...

hahahah! shobie this post is really funny! and so are all the rest of your posts. i enjoy reading your blog :D:D

shobana s. said...

thanks! :D