http://www.kipbot.com/blog/2008/05/02/rathole-police/ apophenic pretentia Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:29:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 http://www.kipbot.com/blog/2008/05/02/rathole-police/#comment-1392 Sun, 04 May 2008 06:54:39 +0000 http://www.kipbot.com/blog/2008/05/02/rathole-police/#comment-1392 "Let's define the rathole" is hardly an idea to be dismissed. In fact, the exercise might very well end up in agreement that ratholes are sometimes worth pursuing. If you followed Remy, you would have ended up in a kitchen that, for a time, was the talk of Paris. To follow Templeton would have revealed evidence of a carefully negotiated agreement to save the life of a pig. And Mrs. Frisby would have led you to a community of ultra-intelligent rats who, if I remember correctly, had gotten control of some amazing drugs or otherwise outsmarted the best and brightest at NIMH. The Intel rules of meetings would have you avoid all this? “Let’s define the rathole” is hardly an idea to be dismissed. In fact, the exercise might very well end up in agreement that ratholes are sometimes worth pursuing. If you followed Remy, you would have ended up in a kitchen that, for a time, was the talk of Paris. To follow Templeton would have revealed evidence of a carefully negotiated agreement to save the life of a pig. And Mrs. Frisby would have led you to a community of ultra-intelligent rats who, if I remember correctly, had gotten control of some amazing drugs or otherwise outsmarted the best and brightest at NIMH. The Intel rules of meetings would have you avoid all this?

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