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Originally Posted by Valuist
If you never HAD to eat or drink, would you? Seems like one could be a lot more productive and same a considerable amount of money if they never had to eat or drink.
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Your comment reminded me of the following poem by Ogden Nash:
Mr. Artesian's Conscientiousness
Once there was a man named Mr. Artesian and his activity was tremendous,
And he grudged every minute away from his desk because the importance of his work was so stupendous;
And he had one object all sublime,
Which was to save simply oodles of time.
He figured that sleeping eight hours a night meant that, if he lived to be seventy-five, he would have spent twenty-five years not at his desk but in bed,
So he cut his slumber to six hours, which meant he only lost eighteen years and nine months instead.
And he figured that taking ten minutes for breakfast and twenty minutes for luncheon and half an hour for dinner meant that he spent three years, two months and fifteen days at the table,
So that by subsisting solely on bouillon cubes which he swallowed at his desk to save this entire period he was able.
And he figured that at ten minutes a day he spent a little over six months and ten days shaving,
So he grew a beard, which gave him a considerable saving.
And you might think that now he might have been satisfied, but no, he wore a thoughtful frown,
Because he figured that at two minutes a day he would spend thirty-eight days and a few minutes in elevators just travelling up and down.
So, as a final time saving device, he stepped out the window of his office, which happened to be on the fiftieth floor.
And one of his partners asked "Has he vertigo?", and the other glanced out and down, and said, "Oh no, only about ten feet more."
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