Bureaucracy Laugh Seeker Gifts

'Would you mind if these junior managers have a go at assessing the profitability of your treatment?'

'Hello? Missing Persons?'

Government Offices / In tray, No Exit tray.

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

'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."

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

Wolf Reintroduction.

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

"Right you've got 30 minutes...start squeezing!"

Excessive Paperwork

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

Bureaucratic castle

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

Department of Sanitation: In Bin and Out Bin.

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

"I chair the safety committee here, but since we're all dead, it's largely symbolic."

Congratulations on winning the Inland Revenue Fiction Award.

Insufficient Postage

'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.'

Police officer giving ticket to paramedics.

'You like it? I'm getting a government grant for Phase 2.'

Man at desk in 'Space research'. His in and out boxes are labelled 'inner' and 'outer'.

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

"We have all kinds of Regulatory Guidelines floating around."

Man entering spaceship is asked for his passport

Runaround Barry

10/03/17 14:03

EXPLAIN WHY YOU HAVE NOT REGISTERED WITH THE LOCAL POETRY OFFICE.

"I'd like to buy your subscription list to check for changes of address."

"What a coincidence! I'm forwarding your request at this very moment!"

'Hey! Who stole my stamp of grudging approval?'

'Teaching, reading, writing, and arithmetic sounds like a good idea. Let me run it by an educational focus group.'

"And you're sure we don't need planning permission?"