Tuesday, July 07, 2015

BS Analogy 3 - Barney's Burgers



From first grade on, Barney (seriously, I lack imagination) knew what he wanted to be if he ever had to grow up. His nightly visions of the future often turned into wet dreams. In case your dirty mind went the wrong place, he drooled all over his pillowcase thinking about the hamburgers he would one day sell in his very own franchise.

When he was too old for rabble rousing and still too young for muck racking, and finally decided to give his dream a shot, he discovered timing was not one of his better strengths. His region was already over-saturated with the franchise of his wet dream. So, he found a way to circumvent timing, without having to change his address (telephone number, or voter registration). He opened a pizza joint instead of a hamburger joint. 

Life was grand. He told his friends and family he made the best hamburgers on the face of the earth. He even told them that he, personally, had created the Slider™ and the Big Boy™, and that he invented flame broil and the cheeseburger, and that they would never regret eating every meal at his new franchise because the burgers at his franchise were all that with extra special sauce.

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, his friends and family (now fans) packed into his place for pizza. Not one of them ever suspected they were eating pizza instead of burgers. When sufficiently sated with pizza and primed with heartbern, they left Barney’s pizza place to crash burger joints. Inside, they hovered over customers, breathing down their necks and spitting on them, and told them they were really eating pizza, and they should throw those pizzas down and rush over to Barney’s place for real burgers.

No matter how many people removed their buns and showed the Barney fans the ground beef under their lettuce, the Barney fans just screamed that they were COOLADE,,,DRINKERS!!! and too stupid to know the difference between a burger and a pizza. When people petitioned the town to force the Barney fans to stay in Barney’s place and stop being such obnoxious menaces to society, the Barney fans cried that they were being persecuted by pizza eaters.

It’s hard to say if Barney fans know the difference between pizzas and burgers, or if they even like either.

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