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1. ''(Management)'': Never. (see also, ''later''; ''domani''; ''mañana''; ''when the lion lies down with the lamb''; ''when monkeys fly out of my butt'', etc.) | 1. ''(Management)'': Never. (see also, ''later''; ''domani''; ''mañana''; ''when the lion lies down with the lamb''; ''when monkeys fly out of my butt'', etc.) | ||
“[[When budget allows]]” is a [[hypothetical]] time in the future that, like Little Orphan Annie’s ''Tomorrow'', is always there, dangling tantalisingly before us, as each day turns, getting no nearer. It is a sunlit dream-time in which there ''will'' be budget to hook up that feed, build out that [[API]] or invest in that show-stopping [[legaltech]], for which there is no budget ''now''. | |||
Logicians will immediately sense a [[paradox]]. If this grand expedition ''today'' fails to pass muster, its [[present value]] should one embark upon it at an unknowable point in the henceforth is surely smaller still. The aperture constricts the further out we push. What kind of contortion in [[Space-tedium continuum|spacetime]] must we therefore crawl through to reach that happy land? | Logicians will immediately sense a [[paradox]]. If this grand expedition ''today'' fails to pass muster, its [[present value]] should one embark upon it at an unknowable point in the henceforth is surely smaller still. The aperture constricts the further out we push. What kind of contortion in [[Space-tedium continuum|spacetime]] must we therefore crawl through to reach that happy land? | ||