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January 5, 2007
Everything I Know About Business I Learned from Colonel Flagg
Everything I know about business I learned from M*A*S*H's Colonel Flagg:"I've trained myself not to laugh or smile. I watched a hundred hours of the Three Stooges; every time I felt like smiling or laughing, I jabbed myself in the stomach with a cattle prod."
"You think you're real smart. But you're not smart; you're dumb. Very dumb. But you've met your match in me."
"Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don't know what it is. I keep myself in a constant state of utter confusion."
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for real business success tips, you gotta love this Flagg exchange:
Flagg: I know every move you make, everything there is to know about you, so watch your step, Hunnicut!
Hawkeye: I'm Pierce.
Flagg: Fine, you want to call yourself Pierce, I can play that game too.
The other classic Flagg exchange while he is trying to call in an air strike.
Hawkeye: "why don't you just nuke Korea."
Flagg: "don't try to make friends with me."
This describe how most admin feel working for the VCs:
(To Radar:) "Shut up, you, or I'll use you to clean a cannon!"
Of all the things I feel compelled to comment on that come from your site...it's Flagg.
I will still stop dead in my tracks and put my family through an entire episode if I happen to spot him.
He's Maxwell Smart, Jack Tripper, and Jim Phelps wrapped up into one awesomely disfunctional intelligence officer.