You can learn more but you can’t learn less. Which is true except some of us seem to be real good at forgetting or unlearning what is already well known. Buyer beware.
Some use this to their advantage. It’s called the gopher syndrome and is used by door-to-door encyclopedia, vacuum cleaner and other salesmen.
The principle is that if they knock on enough doors in a day, they will find a go-fer. Someone who will go fer jest about anything if the pitch is right.
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Others, including government, use it to sell ideas. Yes, if you knock on enough of any group, even us farmers, you will find sufficient go-fers who will buy into your idea. So then you may do as you wish.
A prime example would be the transport of our grain. Enough of us bought into the end of the Crow, privatization, deregulation, fierce competition, value added, that all proceeded quite nicely.
The railways smile, having netted in excess of $400 million each last year. Their new battle cry, I hear, will be “either ship er get off the potholes.” But of course they have problems, what with fighting each other fer business an their apparent dislike of trees – too many branches, I think.
So where does that leave us go-fers out here who can’t afford those wonderful new freight rates? There’s no way we can eat er feed all the grain. No rubber boots are that high.
Well, after several seconds of deep thought, the answer, thanks to Sadman Hussein over in Iraq, is right in front of us. Remember those big, long half-mile guns he was building to shell other countries? Right, we’ll fire our grain to the coast. The order comes in- when do you want delivery? Three to four minutes? Fine, then open the cargo doors, please return the empty casings an parachutes.
No elevation charges, no demurrage, we’re laughin.
Won’t work, you say? Yes, I know. Allan Rock would never let us register them big guns an the Americans,as usual not liking our system, would shoot down our grain.
To the rescue Daryl, my level-headed, cranky other brother, has the ultimate solution – use teams of real prairie gophers trained to tunnel in a straight line. Pound in a stainless steel pipe an pump the wheat out in reusable containers along with canola oil. Figgers this idea should call fer the Order out of Canada.
