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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-28-06 09:49 PM
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Hey everythingsxen...you're more talented than you realized!
Writing like a bureaucrat takes study, practice

By Stephen Wilbers

Of all the on-the-job writers, the bureaucrat is perhaps the most misunderstood and maligned. Although many people assume that anyone can write like a bureaucrat, truly accomplished bureaucratic writers have devoted many long hours of study and practice to learn their craft.

To write like a bureaucrat, you must learn to think like a bureaucrat. You must cultivate a healthy disdain for others based on the belief that human beings are a despicable lot, a species worthy of your contempt, and that somehow you stand apart from the mob...



http://www.wilbers.com/BureaucraticWriting.htm

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Tucker
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everythingsxen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-28-06 10:21 PM
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1. This is an interesting situation which could generate a tremendous
amount of positive feedback for our situational dynamics. If we consider on the one hand that I am, at this time, fully capable of writing as a bureaucrat, and we consider on the other hand I enjoy writing as a bureaucrat, then it would clearly be a positive step forward to a bold future if I were to find employment as a droning, faceless bureaucrat.

I wonder where (and when) on Earth I learned to speak and write like a bureaucrat?
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-28-06 11:41 PM
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2. OMG...you need to apply to the DMV or something
Edited on Tue Nov-28-06 11:43 PM by AlienGirl
You could go far in life as a droning, faceless bureaucrat. Capice, noioso?

Or you could sell propane and propane accessories. Maybe door-to-door.

Tucker
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everythingsxen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-29-06 02:01 AM
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3. Well I think we all know that..
propane is a reliable cooking source and is better than charcoal.
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-29-06 02:49 AM
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4. I'm sure you've raised a toasty flame in your time...
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everythingsxen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-29-06 03:00 AM
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5. Oh well, if you want really good fire...
the kind of fire that can cook really good...
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-29-06 03:06 AM
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6. You can supply it, along with a collated memo?
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everythingsxen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-29-06 03:37 AM
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7. MMMMmmmmm Collating....
/drool

I am still stuck at work....
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-29-06 03:50 AM
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8. Looky this!
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everythingsxen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-29-06 03:51 AM
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9. eeek
A gyr!
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-29-06 03:53 AM
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10. Err, a gyr?
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everythingsxen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-29-06 03:54 AM
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11. eh?
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-29-06 04:01 AM
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13. Here's another couple of them!
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everythingsxen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-29-06 04:02 AM
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14. Boids!
!!!111
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-29-06 04:03 AM
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15. Ain't they the cutest skulkingest birds ever?
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-29-06 03:56 AM
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12. I wish I could fix that...
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-29-06 04:20 AM
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16. You enjoy writing like this? But...you don't sound Jamaican...
Edited on Wed Nov-29-06 04:21 AM by AlienGirl
Bureaucrat: A person who cuts red tape sideways.
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