Bureaucracy Humor Gifts

'Oh yes, you need specific credentials to be a town planner.'

"Wrong window. I’m a sea lion. You need an otter."

Runaround Barry

'Confound it, Osgood -- Where's your necktie?'

Slow food organization office.

Bureaucratic castle

Quality Control

'Hello? Missing Persons?'

Government Offices / In tray, No Exit tray.

'...And they're giving us sixty million years to get in compliance.'

'I don't care if it's a little storage room for King Tut, you still need a building permit and contractor's license.'

"'COST: shedloads, COMPLETION DATE: God knows.' Perhaps you'd care to flesh out some details for us."

"You're allowed to think outside the box, as long as you stay inside the margins."

'Welcome! Highly placed, unidentified administration spokespersons convention.'

"Whether we refer to them as lakes or ponds, it's mere semantics."

Wolf Reintroduction.

"You have a valid social security number, a photo ID, and a credit score. As far as I'm concerned, you exist."

Industrial Injuries Benefit.

"I'll need to see your responsible service of alcohol certificate."

"You're a bureaucrat, Ed. What do you mean you hate paperwork?"

I might have granted your loan request, if it wasn't written on a beer mat.

God's Office.

Excessive Paperwork

"To give him credit...normally I think these staff 'consultations' are a complete waste of time...but he's been in his office all morning working on our ideas."

'We're downsizing the Pentagon into a triangle.'

Department of Infrastructure

Department of Sanitation: In Bin and Out Bin.

'I'm pleased to announce the newly-created 'Office of Homepage Security' - to protect against computer hackers.'

Insufficient Postage

Before we can rescue you...you need a safety check.

"For our market research, each package needs to be individually marked off and put over there."

Congratulations on winning the Inland Revenue Fiction Award.

'Miss Carruthers, check and see if we have an extradition treaty with Disneyland.'

'I'm sorry, sir, this is the department of Immediate Dissatisfaction. Your appointment is with the Bureau of Eternal Frustration.'

A dart board for the Federal Reserve's planning policy?