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stcredzero on July 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google’s Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoo’s Chief

Actually, your metaphor and the pattern of ruining hopefuls fits a pattern from Greek Mythology. (Other tough guys try to capture/defeat/kill a fearsome monster, but Hercules shows he's an uber-stud by finally doing it)

So Yahoo's now the Erymanthian boar?

dredmorbius on July 17, 2012 [–]

I see it more as an Augean stables.

Time to divert Los Gatos Creek and the Guadalupe River. But I think the stench is stronger than them.

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