I love this analogy, Jim.
I'd suggest a slight tweak.
The row of drinkers consists of three guys.
The first one only drinks Guinness.
The second only drinks Bud Light.
The third will drink anything with alcohol.
So when the bartender slides a Guinness, the first guy gets it. If he
slides a Bud Light, the first guy turns up his nose and the second
guy stops it and drinks it. In both of those cases, the third guy is
still thirsty. Now the bartender slides a glass of Chardonnay. The
first guy turns up his nose, the second guy hardly recognizes it and
the third guy finally gets a drink. Next, the bartender slides a
Shirley Temple. It goes past all three guys and crashes to the floor.
Great analogy.
On Sep 3, 2005, at 11:39 AM, Jim Ault wrote:
There are four men standing at a bar waiting for a beer to drink. The
bartender at one end pours a beer and sends it sliding down the bar
where
the first man grabs the mug and begins drinking.
A second beer slides down the bar and again, the first man grabs
the beer.
This will continue all day and only the first man is drinking.
Now, if the first man is told to grab every beer, inspect it, and
then PASS
it down, the second man will get a chance to grab a beer.
In the case where the first man has ordered a scotch on the rocks,
he does
not grab the beer, and never tries to grab a beer. he is not
waiting for a
beer.
The first moral is that if you are thirsty, don't stand at the far
end of
the bar.
Second, order something no one else wants.
Third, choose a bar where everyone is willing to share and pass the
drinks
down the line.
Important note: if the bartender slides a Shirley Temple that no
one wants,
it slides to the end of the bar and disappears. Most messages sent
are not
actually trapped and used, but are sent because they are triggered by
events.
And since you wanted this explained in English, imagine the bar is
a pub in
London. The analogy breaks down in this case, however, since as
soon as the
first man grabbed the second beer, there would be shouting,
fisticuffs, and
a small skirmish.
Jim Ault
Las Vegas
On 9/3/05 11:14 AM, "Tom McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I've been wallowing in the Shafer book and Rev tutorials for a
week but still
am unclear on the concept of MESSAGES. Could someone explain it in
plain
English?
Tom McDonald
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