[WikiEN-l] Chrome Pussycats, Twiddlers & Whackjobs

Wed Mar 2 23:32:38 UTC 2005

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:04:14 -0500, Poor, Edmund W <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com> wrote:
> Think of Wikipedia as a massive garage where you can build any car you
> want to. Great tools are provided, a lot of shop manuals are there, and
> you get your own lift and away you go. Fantastic. But every one else,
> and I mean everyone else in the garage can work on your car with you.
> There's no "lead mechanics", no "shop floor managers", no anything. In
> fact, the people who are allowed to work on your car can completely
> disregard what you were doing with it. They could have flown in from
> Boola-Boola Island 2 hours ago, not know the language, can't read the
> manuals, and just go in and paint your car pink. And drive it. And leave
> it somewhere. Now, since tools are free and paint is free and you can
> easily go and retrieve your nice car and get it back to something
> resembling sanity, a lot of the people in the garage see there's no
> problems. But in fact, the fifth, or the hundredth time you're traipsing
> down the lane to find your messed-up, polka-dotted,
> covered-in-chrome-pussycats car, you're kind of inclined to drive it
> into the lake and leave it upside down, wheels spinning.
> 

Except...it's not your car!

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