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Bigbluebrush

(66 posts) Wed Feb 13, 2013, 01:31 AM Feb 2013

Let's ban "kicking the can down the road"

Doesn't this equate to "let's claim a bad idea is actually a good idea"?

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Let's ban "kicking the can down the road" (Original Post) Bigbluebrush Feb 2013 OP

That's not my understanding of the term 99th_Monkey Feb 2013 #1

the 'can' is a good idea.. stillcool Feb 2013 #2

Yet, it's not good enough to happen now... Bigbluebrush Feb 2013 #3

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)

1. That's not my understanding of the term

Reply to Bigbluebrush (Original post)

Wed Feb 13, 2013, 01:39 AM

Feb 2013

but the urban dictionary may have changed in the last 5-minutes,
while I wasn't looking.

I thought it meant inordinate delays, of something long-overdue,
that needs to happen, should happen, but no one's willing to touch
that hot potato, so they "kick it down the road". Near as I can tell,
the potato gets placed in the can, before kicking it, so no one gets
burned.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)

2. the 'can' is a good idea..

Reply to Bigbluebrush (Original post)

Wed Feb 13, 2013, 02:31 AM

Feb 2013

Otherwise why would you bother kicking it down the road? It's procrastinating, or being unwilling/unable to act now, but unwilling/unable to let it go.

Bigbluebrush

(66 posts)

3. Yet, it's not good enough to happen now...

Reply to stillcool (Reply #2)

Wed Feb 13, 2013, 03:27 AM

Feb 2013

so is the future going to allow that "not good enough" to actually happen? I'm serious here. If now is not good enough, will a month from now be good enough?

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