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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
But I’m still trying to figure out exactly what that supposedly “college-educated” US government employee was thinking when he used that analogy of “trying to attach a lawnmower to a fire hydrant” ...

It is analogous to "Shovelling shit against the tide ..."

4 posted on 11/02/2011 11:22:11 PM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: Lmo56; Robert A. Cook, PE
the quote should have said a lawn hose to a fire hydrant, not a lawn mower.
7 posted on 11/03/2011 12:20:47 AM PDT by ThirstyMan
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