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A Backhanded Compliment

She wanted to say something nice about him, but it may be that she would have been better off saying nothing at all. I looked up "Pareto optimal" and went to Wikipedia.

Pareto efficiency or Pareto optimality is a state of allocation of resources from which it is impossible to reallocate so as to make any one individual or preference criterion better off without making at least one individual or preference criterion worse off.

So what she is saying is that he is the best he can be, considering what he has to work with. Not exactly high praise. She may as well have said, "Your feet don't smell too bad when you take a bath," except that he would have understood that easily. This comic is from Zach Weinersmith at Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.


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I've seen a lot of write-ups before on people who go all out for Christmas (and I LOVE those in their own right), but wow, this is the first time I've heard of someone doing something like this for Halloween. That comment from that old woman reliving the wonder of childhood in particular got to me =) Good for Ric Griffith, I hope he continues this tradition for a long time to come!
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halloween was always a totally awesome event for my children growing up. we had pumpkins and a pumpkin man every year, concluding with a fantastic Halloweeen party. unfortunately some of my friends lectured me on the evils of celebrating halloween, which i never understood. I always enjoyed halloween as a kid and I did not turn out to be some charles manson character. halloween is about fantasy and this man with these pumpkins GETS IT! This would be worth the drive from Tennessee to witness. Way to go Ric!!!!
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