Article 64084 of alt.sysadmin.recovery:
Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery
Subject: Officially Officious Officials
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From: gillian.richards@foxtafensw.edu.au (Gorgeous Redhead)
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 01:28:24 GMT
Reply-To: gillian.richards@foxtafensw.edu.au
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It's official - the Minister is coming for a visit.
Tomorrow. So for the last two days, I have been locked in my
office and told not to come out until the place is clean.

So I've retrieved the toner for recycling (12 cartons),
sorted out the printer for repair, found (oops) those
missing invoices, thrown the small stuff into one drawer and
hidden the rest of it behind my cupborad.

Now they want me to find something.

Something that I knew EXACTLY where it was five days ago. On
the floor, behind my desk and beside the three stuffed
monitors (sent to the shed for evaluation).

It's not there any more. Instead, there's this
sort-of-greeny-grey fuzzy stuff that stops the cups from
breaking when they fall. I think it's dangerous - why else
would it have been lurking under my papers and trolleys for
so long. You know, it's probably eaten those missing network
cards, dissolved the misplaced screwdrivers - it's probably
this stuff that's been grabbing people's feet as they walk
past, making them trip.

I've got it - I'll call it Computer Annex Recalcitrant
Polyester Employee Tripper.

I'm tired - must be the clean air in here.


Gillian

[0] dammit forgot to use footnotes - I MUST be tired
Gillian Richards - CSO - Blue Mountains TAFE - Remove the fox to reply 
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"Life is pain! Anyone who says differently is selling something."