A friend e-mailed me 3 ways to catch a tiger:
The Newton Method:
Let the tiger catch you. Every action has an equal opposite reaction.
The Einstein Method:
Run in the opposite direction to the tiger. According to the theory of relativity the tiger will run faster and get tired. And then you will be able to catch it.
The Police Method:
Catch a cat and torture it until it agrees that its a tiger.
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So this tickled me to get creative and come up with some more methods to catch a tiger:
The Logical Method:
Do not “not catch a tiger”.
The Mathematical Method:
Catch n tigers and let n go to 1.
The Linguistic Method:
Define “catching” as “not having”. You have now caught many tigers.
The Philosophical Method:
How can you be sure you have not already caught a tiger?
The Managerial Method:
Hire somebody else to catch the tiger.
The Marketing Method:
Name your cat “tiger” and then catch it.
The Software Method:
Add a tiger plug-in to your cat.
The Wikiality Method:
Create a page for yourself on wikipedia and include this line in it: “He has caught a tiger”.
The Kirznerian Entrepreneurial Method:
Figure out who has already caught a tiger but doesn’t need it.
The Schumpeterian Entrepreneurial Method:
Why catch a tiger? why not catch a siger? In fact, why not datch a siger? people may not understand what you’re doing at first and ridicule you, but persevere and pretty soon everybody will be datching sigers… later someone will show up and eatch a uiger…
The Knightian Entrepreneurial Method:
Take the risk and go up to the tiger and attempt to catch it. If you catch it then you’re done. If it catches you then you are not a successful entrepreneur. (Here you could possibly resort to the linguistic method and define the tiger as you and you as the tiger)
