Loves A Good Joke About Bureaucracy Mugs

Insurance Claims Offices: Push and Pull the Other One!

'Hello? Missing Persons?'

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

European Union Health and Safety Direcorate rules

'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."

Wolf Reintroduction.

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

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

"I can assure you, he is somewhere in there looking for it."

Excessive Paperwork

Bureaucratic castle

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

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.'

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

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

Congratulations on winning the Inland Revenue Fiction Award.

Insufficient Postage

'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.'

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

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

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

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

Man entering spaceship is asked for his passport

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

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

'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.'

Frankenstein "Damn it! Not another ethic origin questionaire"

"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."