Laughter Seeking Bureaucrat Mugs

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

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

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

Industrial Injuries Benefit.

"We appreciate your insights Norman but the firm has reached the stage where we need actual ideas."

God's Office.

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

I see from this you were very good at organising office parties.

Congratulations on winning the Inland Revenue Fiction Award.

The new contract will give you much more power over your future...so here are some guidelines as to how you'll be allowed to use it!'

A woman sits in an office of the Food and Drug Administration in - out boxes marked MMMM Good and Oh - Bad.

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

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

"I'm your exit strategy."

"The war's been cancelled. It would raise insurance rates."

'When she grows up she wants to be a nurse and do filing.'

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

Staff care...DOH style!

Congress and the Four Day Week.

Child Support Agency Support Agency.

'Once you get the hang of it, crisis management is fairly straightforward.'

Eddy passes the tax officials exam.

FBI, 'Things are slow, Bensonhurst -- let's investigate the CIA.'

'Say, aren't you Mrs. Wit who gave me such a hard time at the building permit office?'

'This is my new inbox.'

"Final, revised government figures for the fourth quarter of 1981 now indicate that the Yankees, not the Dodgers, won the World Series."

"It could be worse, the new cabinet does want to make the public aware of social workers roles."

'Call me crazy: an aircraft carrier moored in the Thames estuary, which can double as a third runway.'

Former bereucrat who forgot the acronym for the office where he worked.

'Miss Cobb, where's my large gouge?

There are no accidents. At least, that's what Constable Bob believed. Too much paperwork.

"I just got held up in traffic, for Petes sake!You didn't have to start a file on me!"

'There, that's the IT system sorted...now we can do the important stuff.'