i remembered this years ago and found it posted on yet another blogger site. since i'm sorting through remnants from my past, i'm going to repost it here for safekeeping...
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An important job had to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody
would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got
angry about that because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought that
Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody
could have done.
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ah, language. i think i heard it for the first time in elementary school, and it took me a while to process (because of all the pronouns). i'm not much interested in its moral teaching, i just find it amusing (for its humor and commonplaceness).
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