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    From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to DARYL STOUT on Tue Oct 6 06:12:48 2020
    Daryl wrote --

    And, they wonder why we have such a deficit (think $700+ toilet seats).

    I read one time the Pentagon tried to justify military costs by saying
    they had to be workable at different altitudes, weather conditions and other mumbo jumbo.
    Along these lines, did you know the recipe for brownies is 32 pages
    long?
    There are paragraphs on the type of flour, where its from, how eggs are collected and used, etc, etc, etc. Everything has to be just so.
    But government agencies like gobbledygook.
    I helped write a federal grant year ago (mostly typing) and it went on
    for pages and pages and so much of it was just repeated from a page or two
    back and on and on.
    I can't recall just what it all was about, but one had to give several
    pages of why it was requested, then documentation of data, repeat the reason.
    Give more data, repeat the reason.
    Give more date, repeat.
    The thing ran around 100 pages and I was told that was a short grant request...
    The woman in charge had no idea how copy and paste worked and wasn't interested in learning at the time.
    Oh, and there were to be no typo's, no erasures, etc since it had be
    printed out.
    Reminded me of college days writing a paper for some class which had to
    be like that, along with margins just so, etc.
    Then get to the end of the page, make a typo, and have to start all over again...
    Joe
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to JOE MACKEY on Wed Oct 7 08:53:00 2020
    Joe,

    And, they wonder why we have such a deficit (think $700+ toilet seats).

    I read one time the Pentagon tried to justify military costs by
    saying they had to be workable at different altitudes, weather
    conditions and other mumbo jumbo.

    It still leaves the body no matter what the conditions.

    Along these lines, did you know the recipe for brownies is 32 pages long?

    And, they probably don't taste anything like Girl Scouts. :P

    There are paragraphs on the type of flour, where its from, how eggs
    are collected and used, etc, etc, etc. Everything has to be just so.

    Simplicity in government?? You must be kidding.

    But government agencies like gobbledygook.

    What was your first clue??

    I helped write a federal grant year ago (mostly typing) and it went
    on for pages and pages and so much of it was just repeated from a page
    or two back and on and on.

    Sounds like overuse of copy and paste.

    The thing ran around 100 pages and I was told that was a short grant request...

    A lawyer is someone who calls a 100 page document "a brief".

    The woman in charge had no idea how copy and paste worked and wasn't interested in learning at the time.
    Oh, and there were to be no typo's, no erasures, etc since it had be printed out.
    Reminded me of college days writing a paper for some class which had
    to be like that, along with margins just so, etc.
    Then get to the end of the page, make a typo, and have to start all over again...

    I knew I had heard about that somewhere.

    Daryl

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