Susan The Meticulous Wonders…Google = Mom?
Monday, May 19th, 2008 by susanBack to work after Mother’s Day, it hit me. Does Google = Mom?
You decide for yourself. Choose the most appropriate response for each question below:
1. Establishes and subtly enforces — to keep things in order — a system of reward and discipline for a set of known rules:
a) Google
b) Mom
2. Establishes and subtly enforces a second system of reward and discipline, this one for which the rules are not disclosed:
a) Google
b) Mom
3. Encourages — through a complex strategy of intermittent delayed reward for compliant behavior — the habit of always trying to do everything right to be sure she’s happy:
a) Google
b) Mom
4. Occasionally must take away everyone’s privileges when actually only a few have been bad:
a) Google
b) Mom
5.Works tirelessly to survey, decode, categorize, store, and retrieve stuff — on demand and usually in under two seconds — so most of the time we can get what we need or something pretty darn close:
a) Google
b) Mom
6. Has earned the cultural endorsement of having a noun that names them be also used as a verb:
a) Google
b) Mother
7. Fill in the blank: “If ___________ ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.”
a) Google
b) Momma
Am I on to something here?



