Re: Das Kampf...


Subject: Re: Das Kampf...
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 22 2001 - 11:30:39 GMT


There are a several different spins to put on this...

First, maybe people thought he was referring to Mein Kampf and didn't
notice he muffed the title?

Next, perhaps people knew he was referring to Mein Kampf, and thought he
muffed the title but didn't want to embarass him?

Maybe he was making a joke and people thought he made a mistake -- or
just didn't get it?

Or maybe it's this big inside joke that's not even worth noticing
anymore?

Jim

The Laughing Man wrote:
>
> ...or
>
> Report from the dimly lit dungeons of ”business”
>
> Sat in on a meeting this afternoon, a managerial meeting about business reports, where one of my fellow colleagues was making a point about (I guess – no one really knows) bombastic and hard to read pieces of work, exclaiming:
>
> “Yes, like it was 'Das Kampf'!”
>
> Upon which I, your own laughing man (however disguised to a man in a dark suit), noticed how every one in the meeting room seemed to accept his reference without so much as a smile on their faces, but instead nodded in total agreement. Was this a common business joke, the mix between Mein Kampf and Das Kapital, two of the most famous books written if not read (a business joke comes to mind: “how do you know an economist is lying?” – “he claims he has read Das Kapital”), was it a metaphor of some subtle kind; or was it, really ... no. Ten educated, decently gifted men and women could not let such a hilarious slip pass without laughing, smiling, commenting…something.
>
> I wiped that smile off my face and went back to work. There is not only Section Men to worry about in this world of ours.
>
> /tlm
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