The
Truth
Washington continues to breed mute Donkeys...
On both sides of the Aisle!
Quote of the Year
There is no financial crisis
Barney Frank
About muteDonkey.com
muteDonkey.com probably had its genesis in 1991 when Mike and Bob ended up working for the same company. They didn't realize it at the time, but over the years they got involved in the same projects and shared a lot of the same goals. As their careers progressed, they encouraged each other to try different things which led to some amazing outcomes.
One of the outcomes was world travel for Bob, eventually landing him in France for an SAP business system implementation. During that implementation, Bob would have a little fun with his peers and send them emails in French (translated from freetranslation.com). What Bob found in doing this is that an expression common to Mike's vocabulary, translated as "âne muet" and when those words were translated back from French to English, the result was "mute donkey".
The words stuck and became a code word for anything that we did that less than brilliant. "I am such a mute donkey" became the phrase when we couldn't figure something out or we accidently sent an email that we really didn't want the recipient to recieve. Over time, we found more and more applications for this phrase and in our work and travels, we have accumulated a large variety of stories that make us feel like muteDonkeys.
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Check the weather where you are going...dress appropriately
Were a pair of cargo pants for air travel...the pockets are a life-saver
Bring something warm for the international flights...they keep the planes very cold
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China
Welcome to muteDonkey.com!
This site is a work in progress and is supposed to be fun, but also informative (the informative will be coming in fits and starts). Though most of us are registered to vote and donkeys are a recurring theme in this site, we have no affiliation with any political party.
During our work in "Corporate America" and travel to the interesting places, we have come across some great stories. Travel stories, work stories, e-mail stories, people stories, the variety is endless. As fate would have it, we are willing to share. Admittedly, you don't know the people and the places, but a lot of these situations have been experienced by many of you and you might find the comparison amusing. You will find these stories in our blog.
You can contribute too! You can post comments in our blog posts and if you would like to post a whole story or opinion, click contact and send it to us. If it adds to the site and is not obscene, we might add it. E-mail us your story/opinion. If you are really good, we can sign you up as an author and you won't need to go through this bureaucratic nightmare.
Thanks for dropping by, we hope you enjoy. Remember, don't be a muteDonkey
(or Stolidus Equus Asinus as we like to say)!
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Over time, others joined the muteDonkey club and the
volume of stories has grown at a much faster rate. Hopefully, you will see
contributions from the following (the muteDonkey brigade).
Without someplace to log these stories, they would certainly be lost, and that would only confirm that we are muteDonkeys. It wasn't until 2007, when websites were cheap and easy to create that we decided to buy the domain and put some of our stories onto the web for all to share.
So these are our stories. Perhaps you have some of your own that you are willing to share?
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Jimmy
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