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Sarcastic Definition of the Day: Bureaucracy
American Irony ^ | 8-24-15 | The Looking Spoon

Posted on 08/24/2015 4:09:19 PM PDT by The Looking Spoon

I started writing a collection of sarcastic definitions about a year or so ago for fun and have amassed roughly 50 words so far, so I made a page for them and was planning on doing a daily/almost daily flashcard like the one below.



TOPICS: Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: bureaucracy; definition; sarcasm

1 posted on 08/24/2015 4:09:20 PM PDT by The Looking Spoon
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To: The Looking Spoon

Can any of you Freepers find a video clip of Bud Spencer in “Banana Joe” where he is told he must now have a permit to sell his bananas? He goes to the town hall and waits in line for hours to apply for his permit. Just as he gets up to the bureaucrat’s table, the guy says, “Closed for Lunch!”

Banana Joe picks up the little twerp, hangs him by the collar on a coat hook and proceeds to rummer stamp permits as fast as he can for everyone else in line.


2 posted on 08/24/2015 4:18:22 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("When the left wins, they're in power; when the right wins, they're in office." - Mark Steyn)
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To: The Looking Spoon

You should apply for a grant from CMS to study the problem of bureaucracy as it impacts the delivery of medicine to the underserved.

Concurrently a grant from Dept of Ed, and Dept of Energy and Dept of Defense.

Of course, the goal of each study is to conclude that more, not less, bureaucracy is needed to reach the underserved. Why are more unqualified people not in the military? We need to study that. We need navigators that help them qualify.

You could get quite rich...and cynical.


3 posted on 08/24/2015 5:10:22 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: The Looking Spoon

Ambrose Bierce beat you to it.

I always liked the definition (not his) of Communist as “Somebody who has nothing and thinks everyone should share”.


4 posted on 08/24/2015 5:42:48 PM PDT by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt)
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To: Hugin

HAHA! That’s perfect!


5 posted on 08/24/2015 5:50:01 PM PDT by The Looking Spoon
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To: The Looking Spoon

Bookmark


6 posted on 08/24/2015 6:19:21 PM PDT by publius911 (If you like Obamacare, You'll LOVE ObamaWeb.)
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To: The Looking Spoon

https://www.usa.gov/federal-agencies/a


7 posted on 08/24/2015 6:36:37 PM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Red Badger

The most shocking thing about that link is that there’s nothing for Q,X,Y,and Z


8 posted on 08/25/2015 10:30:30 AM PDT by The Looking Spoon
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To: The Looking Spoon

Just give them time................Queer Bureau, X-Gender Bureau, Young Homos Bureau and Z Bureau of Bureaus..................


9 posted on 08/25/2015 10:58:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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