Photocopying The Copycat

The copy has been photocopied so many times that no one knows or cares why there was ever an original

You ever hear the story about the housewife who, every Thanksgiving, trimmed sizeable edges off the sides of the turkey before putting it in the oven to bake? One Thanksgiving her young daughter asked her why she was cutting away so much of the juicy meat, and all the housewife could say was that this was the way her own mother always did it to get a wonderful tasting turkey. So the young girl, not satisfied, asked her grandmother the very same question and got the very same response. Finally, the girl went right to the source and queried her great-grandmother. The greater grandmother’s answer: “Our oven back then wasn’t large enough for a whole turkey to fit.”

Recently, the Global Times in China printed an article about the copycat culture dragging down China’s IT revolution. Zhang Yaqin, corporate vice president of Microsoft, said that there wasn’t enough innovation going on. Only twenty percent were doing anything innovative, as the other eighty percent copied that twenty percent.

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