What does a biscuit, a banker and a DM reader have to do with Mastermind groups?

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Who stole your biscuit?

Why forums and groups where people know each other are great.

A quick joke can develop a life of its own in just a few minutes and become something much more interesting. In Prospect Networking, a great Facebook Group a joke was posted yesterday. Here is the development of it.

The Joke

A banker, a Daily Mail reader and a benefit claimant are sitting at a table sharing 12 biscuits. The banker takes 11 and says to the Daily Mail reader: “Watch out for the benefit claimant, he wants your biscuit”

A Clarification

Wouldn’t the banker also want a share of the leftover biscuit?

A Question

Who said it was a leftover biscuit. My guess is it was secured against the Daily Mail reader’s property at a fixed rate of 10% over 5 years

A Quick Rebuttal

The banker actually took all twelve but convinced the Daily Mail reader there was actually one left and it was in danger from the underclass

Amplify it

Nope, the banker took 12. Loaned out 17 and sold the difference to the DM reader, who sold it to someone else who found the benefits claimant defaulted on the missing 5 biscuits and is now responsible for returning ALL the biscuits despite not having one. Of course the Daily Mail reader is moaning about their biscuit tin being empty and a poverty stricken old age…

The Nuclear Option

How about the banker took all 12 loaned out 120 using the fractional reserve of the Fed put it altogether in a Credit Default Swap which Moody’s and S+P rated at AAA+ despite the biscuits by then having gone soft, which were then sold to Gullible banks in the UK for the fund managers investing the pension funds of the Daily Mail readers and then when they find out that their pension pot is not exactly what it should have been place the blame on the looters who took a few pairs of trainers from the multinational foot locker who had the stock insured at three times its real value so didn’t really care. The looter didn’t even get biscuits, they took Haribo.

Now as this reminds me of the Four Yorkshireman sketch how far can you go?

Can you take this to its totally illogical conclusion? Remember to keep the biscuits in the story though.

Seriously though, the power of group think can take an original idea and through various iterations it can become something much larger and more exciting. This is the power of the Mastermind group when not applied to jokes. Let’s say you have an idea about doing something and you put it out into your group or Mastermind. The ideas that ping back and forth can fill out the idea, they solidify your original thought and give it substance and form.

Are you in a Mastermind or groups that help each other out and if not why not?

Graham

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