If you try any preversions in there I'll blow your head off.
-Col. Bat Guano
A friend asks that I comment on the presently popular expression, "It is what it is." You may be familiar with it. Perhaps your boss has stopped by your desk at five to five.
BOSS: Listen, uh, we're going to need you to front-burner this spend management growth process report.
YOU: Who's "we"?
BOSS: Well, okay. Me.
YOU: What do you mean, "front-burner"?
BOSS: You know. Put it on the front burner.
YOU: Um, you mean, do it sooner?
BOSS: I don't think we need to take a deadline approach.
YOU: So I can do it whenever?
BOSS: Sure. Yes. Absolutely. But we do need it tomorrow morning.
YOU: [sigh]
BOSS: Hey, I feel you. But, you know buddy, it is what it is.
Or, perhaps your favorite powerpitcherback was just accused of peeing on babies in an Atlantic City Casino suite and is speaking at a hastily called presser:
REPORTER: Would you care to comment on these allegations?
ATHLEBRITY: Well, you know, I'm just, you know what I'm sayin? Because teamwork, that's what matters. You know what I'm sayin? I just, these guys, and the coach, you know what I'm sayin? I'm just gonna keep giving it my all, you know? Because we're gonna take it one day at a time, and just, you know, build a team. You know what I'm sayin?
REPORTER: So you have no comment on the charge that you urinated on infants in your hotel room during a recent Atlantic City trip?
COACH: I think what he's saying is that his mind is in the game, and he's going to focus on the fundamentals.
REPORTER: But the allegations--
SPOKESCREATURE: [interrupting] Look, regrettably we live in a culture where people who achieve celebrity through excellence are targeted. And I think we all expect these sorts of things to arise from time to time. It is what it is.
Or perhaps you were hoping to hear the President say that he would string up past torturers by their torturing little fingers:
PRESIDENT: I am interested in looking forward, not backward. Whatever past wrongs, those are not America. What happened is what it is, and cannot be changed. But we can look forward.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
16 comments:
I'm gonna try that next time.
Judge: You are charged with doing 80 in a 20mph school zone while hitting a crack pipe and getting a blow job from a hooker. How do you plead?
Me: Judge, dude, relax, take a freakin' Ritalin and chill a bit, it is what it is, man.
It should work, no?
this seems to be universally held as the reason why any particular construction project is screwed up and/or behind schedule and/or over budget. usually all three. (the tautology gets bandied around a lot round these parts.)
Didn't Ayn Rand build a whole "philosophy" out of that phrase?
It is what it it, and that's the way it is. Depending on what the definition of 'is' is.
Look at it this way. A man takes a job, you know? And that job - I mean, like that - That becomes what he is. You know, like - You do a thing and that's what you are. Like I've been a cabbie for thirteen years. Ten years at night. I still don't own my own cab. You know why? Because I don't want to. That must be what I want. To be on the night shift drivin' somebody else's cab. You understand? I mean, you become - You get a job, you become the job. One guy lives in Brooklyn. One guy lives in Sutton Place. You got a lawyer. Another guy's a doctor. Another guy dies. Another guy gets well. People are born, y'know? I envy you, your youth. Go on, get laid, get drunk. Do anything. You got no choice, anyway. I mean, we're all fucked. More or less, ya know.
It's almost a bit of the tao. It simply is; it cannot be explained further. But schlubby guys and dickweeds have used it to end their rambling and declare that they have just wasted everyone's time.
Leave it to IOZ to have nothing good to say about tautologies. God, what a nihilist.
I don't know. That's about the dumbest thing I ever heard.
It is what it is, Travis
It ain't what you's seein.
It is what it ain't.
So what it is?
I is that I is.
I is what I be.
I is what I was.
I's just sayin.
Dig?
See?
Bro?
I believe it was Parmenides who said "What is, is."
It ain't Bertrand Russell.
The brilliant British philosopher Plant once said:
“And if I say to you tomorrow. Take my hand, child, come with me.
It's to a castle I will take you, where what's to be, they say will be.”
muy bueno, IOZ.
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