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This is yak shaving (paraphrased from Don’t Shave That Yak!):

You start with the desire to wax your car.

To wax your car, you need a water hose. Only, your water hose is busted so you need to go down to the hardware store to get a new hose.

To get to the hardware store, you have to drive across a bridge. The bride requires a pass or ticket. You can't find your pass, but you know your neighbor Bob has one.

However, Bob won't lend you his pass until you return a pillow that your son borrowed. The reason you haven't returned it is because the pillow is missing some stuffing.

The pillow was fancy, and stuffed with yak hair. In order to re-stuff the pillow you need to get some yak hair.

And that's how you end up at the zoo, shaving a yak, when all you really wanted to do was wax your car.

Bryan Oakley
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