Bureaucracy Humorist Pillows

'Oh, dear! — your baptismal certificate was never notarized!'

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

'Did you get prior authorisation before you became ill?'

Caution Confusing Signage Ahead.

"This IS the easy form. The regular one is over there!"

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

"First you'll need to fill out some paperwork."

'The Government says we have to have diversity training for birds of a feather who flock together.'

A timber Log filling out his Logbook

In - Civil Service Strike Out - Everybody.

Immigration and Naturalization Service has no idea what it's doing.

'And this is believed to be the head of the Pharaoh's bureaucracy!'

'Mr Human Spider? I'm from Health & Safety. May I have a word...?'

"He says we can't start until we've filled in his risk assessment form."

'We've been looking into absences at our meetings and it turns out that Nigel died in 2006 and Trevor never actually worked here!'

Department of Redundancy

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

Passing the buck

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

IRS - 87 Days without a refund.

'I hate to shoot you both, but the paperwork is actually simpler this way.'

'I'm from the office next door - May I borrow a cup of Federal forms?'

'Remarkable - buried in red tape. We don't often get one from middle management.'

Man entering spaceship is asked for his passport

'I need an IN BOX...an OUT BOX...and a bunch of papers to shuffle.'

Entering Appomatox. Made possible by a grant.

Essential / Non Essential Signpost - 'It's way more competitive since they turned things over to the private sector.'

'I make the lemonade and sell it -- Kevin just fills out the Federal forms.'

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

"The Three Billy Goats Gruff and Fred M. Smith, Chief Fraud Investigator, Department of Transportation, Roads and Bridges... THAT'S who's crossing this bridge."

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

We've got all the figures, we just don't know what order to put them in.

"Do you mind if I have another look at your passport, sir?"

"Oh, and take one of those shovels to lean on."

'We're delaying the operation until we come up with a catchy name.'