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Shortening the ropeShortening the ropePosted Apr 17, 2009 3:53 UTC (Fri) by ccurtis (guest, #49713)Parent article: Shortening the rope
I expect I'll never get a response in a thread this large, but I'm a bit confused here - I think there's a problem in the analogy. Having enough rope to hangs one's self is one thing, but then adding extra rope tends not to increase the likelihood of a successful hanging...
Or is this just another one of those things where the more unbelievable something is the greater the worth being assigned to it through invariably larger caches of salt, and I should just silently bemoan to myself this lack of any actual rational meaning in the ongoing evolution of language?
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Shortening the rope Posted Apr 18, 2009 2:23 UTC (Sat) by Kit (guest, #55925) [Link]
'Enough rope to hang one's self' isn't really an analogy, but more so a figure of speech. The 'and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure' was really just a joke meant to point out how Unix gives the user many ways to hang one's self. 'Shortening the rope', on the other hand, is a play on that to mean reducing the amount of ways one can hang one's self.
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