All you Need to Know about Government Bureaucracy:
Pythagorean Theorem: ...........................................24 words.
Lord's prayer:....................................................... 66 words.
Archimedes' Principle: ........................................... 67 words.
Ten Commandments: ............................................ 179 words.
Gettysburg address: ............................................ 286 words.
US Declaration of Independence: .................... 1,300 words.
US Constitution with all 27 Amendments: .......... 7,818 words.
EU regulations on the sale of cabbages:....... 26,911 words.
SORT OF PUTS THINGS INTO PROPER PERSPECTIVE, DOESN'T IT?
I like it :-)
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ReplyDeleteBf. Just something to smile about.
ReplyDeleteJmac. Time for the Magna carta to be dustied of methinks.
Yep .. a bunch of vegetables, waffling about .... well, vegetables .. ;)
ReplyDelete"Time for the Magna carta to be dustied of methinks."... and the halberds.
ReplyDelete"Let's hear it for the Regulators" + Cabbages = Loud & Prolonged Trouser Trumpeting.
ReplyDeleteHookie's response to Government Bureaucracy... 2 words.
ReplyDeleteCertainly does put it in perspective. The Ten Commandmants are way too long and the Gettysburg address could have been reduced to the house number and postcode - I'm not even going to get into the ones that come after that.
ReplyDeleteThat reminds me of the rumour that H1N1 was Bernhard Matthews' postcode.
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