Rushed to the spring-board and the leap, always, after the take - off, in mid-air, they had to encounter an assistant who stood underneath, an extraordinarily long buggy-whip in hand, and lashed them vigorously. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Those who have a stake in the status quo, even if they meet those other criteria, are going to fear the change that comes to buggy-whip manufacturers of all ages. ❋ Ulysses (2010)
Based upon your post above, I have called my accountant, and am moving my retirement savings out of the buggy-whip sector. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Newspapers think like buggy whip makers thought in 1908, that they were in the buggy-whip business, but their business was killed by the automobile. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As for firms that have no choice but to cut jobs, if your company is the 21st-century equivalent of the proverbial buggy-whip industry, don't fool yourself — downsizing will only postpone, not prevent, your eventual demise. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Yes, it reeks a bit of the times of the buggy-whip and flagpole-sitting, but it's an evil evergreen, and still pretty damn effective. ❋ Unknown (2008)
This decline is not the "buggy-whip" phenomenon where an industry is being replaced or is evolving. ❋ Unknown (2009)
A more fundamental problem is that the entertainment industry is built on a foundation of outdated business practices and buggy-whip technologies, such as sheet-music publishing, licensing middlemen, etc. who would be completely redundant in the internet era except for the fact that they control the legal rights to the music. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And wrestling with sincerity, as many buggy-whip poets have done, is not the same as sincerity. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Back in the days of the buggy-whip and leeches I graduated from medical school, ready to start my internship and residency in pediatrics. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The car put buggy-whip makers out of business, electric lights wiped out lamp-lighters and spreadsheets killed off book keepers. ❋ Unknown (2009)
SIMON: What do you seen in something as simple as Tiger Woods 'swing, you know, the way people used to take a look at Babe Ruth's swing and talk about the bulwark of his body in the shoulders gave a base for the buggy-whip to snap from. ❋ Unknown (2008)
If we, today, begin to move away from internal combustion engines due to their negative environmental impacts, the conventional auto industry will decline just as the buggy-whip industry declined at the end of the horse-and-buggy era. ❋ Unknown (2008)
People skilled in outdated technologies — buggy-whip manufacturing is a classic example — necessarily become unemployed. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Society could have tried to prevent unemployment in buggy-whip manufacturing by banning the introduction of the automobile, but the cost in economic growth would have been immense. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Vested interests are not so powerful that buggy-whip makers still have lobbyists. ❋ Unknown (2008)
And, trillions of dollars of investment in buggy-whip distribution assets will be lost as radio towers are turned into cell phone towers and transmitting equipment is scrapped. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The buggy-whip makers are running the government, and the sooner we can wrest back people's control of the people's government, the sooner that government and these people can be a force for life in the twenty-first century rather than the force for death we have seen in the twentieth. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Woman, if you keep [sassing] me, I'll take you out on the [front lawn] and [buggy whip] the shit out of you. ❋ Motoboat Sound Machine (2011)
"Look [Susan], [that woman] has a major buggy whip on her [chin]!" ❋ Kitcat13 (2009)
John [eats] constantly and never [works out]. He has [buggy whip arms]. ❋ BUTTPLUGLOVER123 (2020)