What % is really enough?
Are you giving it your all? If you were, what percentage of effort would you say you are giving? Would it be 100%? 110%? 150%? Maybe even 1000%? I want to know who the first guy was that 100% just wasn't good enough for. Who was the first guy to "give it 110%"? Is this lift of 10% over what is theoretically possible due to some sort of performance enhancers? Just when you thought you were giving it everything you had, now you find out there are additional levels you can go to beyond the limits of mathematics. Amazing.
This really drives me crazy. We were watching American Gladiators (high comedy, by the way) last night, and two different contestants talked about giving it greater than 100%. The first said he was going to "give it 150%". By the time the second contestant a woman pledged to give it "110%" we knew she was slacking off. Maybe there are gender differences though? Maybe women can't achieve that extra 40%? I don't know. I'm just confused. If you have an explanation and you could provide it, I'd be 100% thankful. I might even be more thankful, but I'm not sure. That's where you with the explanation come in.
This really drives me crazy. We were watching American Gladiators (high comedy, by the way) last night, and two different contestants talked about giving it greater than 100%. The first said he was going to "give it 150%". By the time the second contestant a woman pledged to give it "110%" we knew she was slacking off. Maybe there are gender differences though? Maybe women can't achieve that extra 40%? I don't know. I'm just confused. If you have an explanation and you could provide it, I'd be 100% thankful. I might even be more thankful, but I'm not sure. That's where you with the explanation come in.
posted by chrismilone @ 11:45 AM
1 Comments:
At 10:04 PM,
rkm said…
I'm thinking someone needs to give more than the 100% given to the ol' blog. While Yelp stuff is cool (if you live in Chicago, actually go out once in a while, or if you started doing Yelp reviews of Baby Gap or the Borders Books Kid section), I'm more interested in pithy comments.
I do completely agree with you about the 100% thing, though. Honestly, I've never even given 100% to something...sometimes, at work, I'll throw out 85%, but there's still 15% of me thinking about lunch, or the White Sox, or Star Wars. I suppose if I jumped out of an airplane, I'd be giving 100% to falling, but that might be about it. So yahoos that say they're giving more than that are, frankly, big fat liars.
But the more important issue here is American Gladiators. Really? American Gladiators? Either you were a) trapped under something heavy or b) the remote had been stolen. American Gladiators is high comedy like "Murder, She Wrote" was high drama.
So come on, Chris. You can do better. More blogging. Milone Nation is counting on you.
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