It is because kitchens commonly poach eggs in batches, hold them in iced water, and reheat them (often incompetently), as the orders come in.
How might local support for Iran's regime be sapped if successful Israeli raids strengthen claims that its anti-aircraft batteries were incompetently sited?
In the south, the security forces have dealt brutally and incompetently with Muslim separatists, and a full-blown insurrection looms.
But changing the regime so incompetently was a huge mistake.
But misuse of intelligence, which was faulty to begin with, the failure to find weapons of mass destruction, and the war's brutal, incompetently handled aftermath have proved a vicious combination.
These people, who incompetently run one of the most detested and least effective institutions in America, Congress, are screwing up institutions that accomplish work of tremendous value for America and all of humanity.
They would go into the 2014 elections as reformers who had rescued the unwieldy and incompetently executed Affordable Care Act from its muddle-headed designers, while Mr Obama and the Democrats would bear the brunt of the blame for Obamacare's awful launch.It's not impossible that Republicans could find enough scared Democratic senators to get some of these reforms passed.
Out of that came a commitment to find ways to measure school performance, which IBM helped to develop.Judged on the past 50 years, there is a strong case for saying IBM has had more impact than Carnegie especially if you count its accidental contribution to philanthropy by incompetently failing to stop Mr Gates from creating Microsoft.
It is also likely, however, that the much-maligned IMF-supported programmes in Mexico, Asia and elsewhere in the 1990s were not nearly so incompetently designed as some have asserted.
Indeed, the new crackdown may already have begun: on March 22nd, police in Kathmandu searched the home of Madhav Kumar Nepal, the leader of one of the democratic parties, who is currently under house arrest.The political parties ruled Nepal corruptly and incompetently for 14 years before King Gyanendra's coup.
In addition, drugs have lasting physical effects and some, taken incompetently, can kill.
