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THE TOP TEN STUPIDEST EXAMPLES OF
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(from the 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said, by Ross & Kathryn Petras)

If the United States is attacked, file this page in book III of FPM Supplement 990-1, in front of part 771. Effective upon an attack on the United States and until further notice: a. Part 771 is suspended.
---from the Federal Personnel Manual, Manual Supplement 990-3, Civil Service Commission. Part M-771, Employee Grievances and Appeals 

Rat complaints have gone up, but we look at that as a positive thing, because more people know how to contact us now.
---New York City complaints hotline bureaucrat

Over the years, the Department of Energy has received numerous inquiries....particularly from school-aged children, who were interested in understanding more about the Department's inventory of depleted uranium hexafluoride.....The Department put together the following "fun facts"... DUF6 Cylinder Weight Comparisons A Ticonderoga-class cruiser is about equal in weight to 706 cylinders of depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6). It would take over 70 cruisers to weigh more than the Nation's inventory of DUF6! The Navy owns only 27 Ticonderoga-class cruisers. DUF6 Cylinder Weight Comparisons 7,142 cylinders of DUF6 weighs as much as a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. The entire inventory of 57,634 cylinders weighs more than all eight of the Navy's Nimitz-class aircraft carriers combined!
---from a U.S. Department of Energy website

Exit access is that part of a means of egress that leads to an entrance to an exit.
---government fire-prevention pamphlet for homes for the elderly

After a thorough investigation, we are able to determine that the late arrival of your mail was due to a delay in transit.
---postal service reply to a complaint

Did you give consent for someone to steal or damage your property?
Yes ( ) No ( )

---on a citizen self-reporting form from the Madison (WI) Police Department

In such jurisdictions, the low HOME rent will have increased and, in some cases, will exceed the high HOME rent. In cases where the low HOME rent exceeds the high HOME rent, the rent applicable to a unit subject to the low HOME rent may not exceed the lower of the rents under &92.252(a)(1), i.e., the applicable high HOME rent.
---from an Office of Affordable Housing, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development memo

In other words, feediness is the shared information between toputness where toputness is at a time just prior to the inputness.
---U.S. Office of Education

Due to an administrative error, the original of the attached letter was forwarded to you. A new original has been accomplished and forwarded to AAC/JA (Alaskan Air Command, Judge Advocate office). Please place this copy in your files and destroy the original.
---memo from the Alaska Air Command

This document did not concern you. Please erase your initials and initial your erasure.
---U.S. Army personnel department, Fort Baker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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