Snipantry

[Mullins, Bill]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: James A. Landau
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Sent: 9/21/2004 8:45 PM
>Subject: Snipantry
>
>Also a metaphor new to me:  a Human Resources person commented that the
>standard two-hour orientation for new employees was "drinking from a
>fire hose".

There's a great scene in the movie "UHF" (1989) in which Michael Richards
(played Kramer on Seinfeld) is hosting a kid's show.  They play a game
called "Drink from the Fire Hose".  A boy sits with his mouth open, Richards
turns on the hose, and the kid gets knocked across the room.

Toronto Star, 12 Oct 1986
"Skantze also believes that a combination of artificial intelligence and
expert computer systems will relieve a commander from trying to drink from a
fire hose of intelligence data before making decisions."

New York Times, Aug 18, 1963
"Undergraduates, withstanding a ferocious assault of knowledge and new
ideas, say that "it's like taking a drink from a fire hose." "