[Grovenet] A Discovery of Note

[Meredith Bliss]

Not invented here (or there) ... consider the origins of the words 
"bureaucrat" and "apparatchik." (cf. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy) 

It's also worth noting that while Europe was wallowing in the Dark Ages, China 
had a long established system of education and exams -- those who hoped to 
land a government job had to pass the exams, otherwise it was life on the 
farm. You had to study hard and prove your achievement. But as Europe climbed 
out of its morass, it seems to have created a civil replacement for the 
church bureaucracy.

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 08:34, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> >From a friend in Kiwi-land:
>
> "NEW ELEMENT DISCOVERED IN CANBERRA"
>
> "This heavy element has one neuron but no electrons. It has 25 assistant
> neurons, 88 deputy neurons and 198 assistant deputy neurons, giving it an
> atomic
> weight of 312.
>
> These particles are held together by forces known as morons, which are
> surrounded by 14 million particles known as peons.
>
> It has been named Governmentium {Gv}.
>
> Without electrons Gv is inert but it can be detected because it impedes
> every
> reaction it comes in contact with.
>
> A minute amount of Gv is sufficient to cause a reaction to take more than
> four
> days when normally it would take less than a second.
>
> Gv has a half life of less than four years. It does not decay but instead
> undergoes a regular re-organisation in which groups of assistant and deputy
> neurons exchange places.
>
> Gv's mass increases over time because re-organisation causes more and more
> morons to become neurons, thus creating isodopes.
>
> This characteristic of moron promotion led scientists to believe that Gv is
> formed whenever morons reach a situation called Critical Morass.
>
> When catalysed with money, Gv becomes Administratium, an element that
> radiates
> as much energy as Gv. It then has half as many peons but twice as many
> morons"
>
> - Attributed to "Canberra Times" 5th April 2006
>
> Shoot. This stuff is just appearing there? We Americans have survived it
> for over two centuries so far.
>
> Or did we survive?
>
> Ron D'Eau Claire
>
>
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