Friday, February 29

Whack-a-mole?

So last Friday, an academic likened my job to herding cats. Today, another academic said this to me:

"With the advent of this news, your job must feel strikingly similar to whack-a-mole."

WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE AND WHERE DO THEY GET THESE ANALOGIES?!

ETA: Go here to whack-a-mole.

4 comments:

maryse said...

well i don't know where whack-a-mole comes from (although i've heard it before) but the herding cat analogy not only have a heard, but also used to describe working with a bunch of academics.

Danielle said...

Heh, we use the herding cats analogy all the time. The whack-a-mole, not so much...

P. Lee said...

I love the whack-a-mole analogy - perhaps I just wish I could play whack a mole with them as the moles...

cath said...

Could it be? Two hearding cat posts in the same day? Crazy

http://twoblacksheep.typepad.com/two_black_sheep/2008/02/ill-tumble-4-ya.html