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Funny story: Prodigal Son To Be Investigated Over Claims He Failed To Pay Inheritance Tax

Prodigal Son To Be Investigated Over Claims He Failed To Pay Inheritance Tax

The Department of Taxation has begun an investigation into allegations that The Prodigal Son failed to pay any tax on the large inheritance he received. While exact details are unclear, it has been established that Mr Son immediately left the country…

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Funny story: Government Climate Committee Agrees that Desperate Times Call for Discussion of Some Possible Measures

Government Climate Committee Agrees that Desperate Times Call for Discussion of Some Possible Measures

After some debate, a government action committee formed to address the ever-worsening climate crisis reached a consensus that these desperate environmental times call for discussion of taking some possible measures. “It’s too early to tell precise...

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Funny story: New Chief At Dep't of Homeland Security Thinks It's A Piece Of Cake

New Chief At Dep't of Homeland Security Thinks It's A Piece Of Cake

The Department of Homeland Security has a new chief, Jeh Johnson. He takes over a department that includes 22 former agencies folded into it. The tasks of Homeland Security involve preventing terrorism through surveillance, disaster relief through...

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Funny story: Modern Day Nikola Tesla Invents Infinite Power Source

Modern Day Nikola Tesla Invents Infinite Power Source

Rockville MD: Nikola Tesla working in his garage at night has invented an infinite power source, potentially making the USA energy independent. Mr. Tesla planned to patent the device and give all rights to his adopted country. An application for a...

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Funny story: Britain's "Great" Heritage Under Threat From European Interference

Britain's "Great" Heritage Under Threat From European Interference

We will fight them on the beaches before long, if as is being reported today, bonkers Brussels bureaucrats soon pass a new law that's on their mad agenda which will force Great Britain to drop its Great prefix by 2015. It seems that, as some woul...

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Funny story: Countries Close Net On Libya

Countries Close Net On Libya

The U.K, France and Lebanon are in negotiations in an attempt to ratchet up the pressure on Colonel Gaddafi and Libya. Increasingly frustrated at the lack of U.N. agreement on meaningful sanctions against the North African country, David Cameron i...

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Funny story: Queen Released from Care of Local Authority

Queen Released from Care of Local Authority

HM the Queen is back home at Buckingham Palace tonight, wondering not for the first time how it all went so wrong. In this latest instance, HM was forced into protective care after telling people 'I don't think he looks like my father at all.'...

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Funny story: Whitehall to ban the use of rectangles

Whitehall to ban the use of rectangles

Whitehall are to ban rectangles in government buildings as part of a cost cutting exercise aimed at saving the tax payer millions of pounds a year. Officials plan to implement the proposals within the next fortnight after the National Audit Offic...

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Funny story: The 6-step Strategic Plan

The 6-step Strategic Plan

Every government or private sector department needs a strategic plan, whether they realise this or not. Many departments even get their act together to actually produce such a plan. The process usually followed is the six-step plan originally devised by Procrastinus in the early part of the Holy Roman Empire. Step 1 The executive management team get together when the realisation dawns that...

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Funny story: UK paving slabs in euro madness

UK paving slabs in euro madness

In a move expected to cost £18million, EEC commissioners have announced that all Britain's paving slabs will have to be changed as they are all slightly undersized. The standard European regulation size is 45 x 45 centimetres, and the UK's are 40...

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Funny story: Bureaucrat Dies

Bureaucrat Dies

Snively Wusbag passed away Monday. Wusbag, a career bureaucrat, died in his New York City home at the age of 73. He was remembered for his long career obstructing regular people from getting things done. Born during the Great Depression to a famil...

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Funny story: National Audit Office (NAO) to query what it is they themselves actually do

National Audit Office (NAO) to query what it is they themselves actually do

The National Audit Office (NAO) are tendering for a research company to find out exactly what it is they do.

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Funny story: India's DRDO loses one scientist every day - "just careless, really"

India's DRDO loses one scientist every day - "just careless, really"

India's premier military research body, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), loses one scientist every day amid the inefficient bustle of typical official top-secret bureaucracy.

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Funny story: A Bureaucrat Dies

A Bureaucrat Dies

San Francisco - A bureaucrat died today in a wildfire while hiking the less groomed regions of northern California. Witnesses said he was trying to help his family escape the rapidly approaching blaze by retreating along a hilly path.

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Funny story: Poland Has Six Committeess to Fight Red Tape

Poland Has Six Committeess to Fight Red Tape

Poland's government has set up six committees in the past year to fight bureaucracy and simplify laws.

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Funny story: Jailed! For Dumping Five Pound Notes

Jailed! For Dumping Five Pound Notes

Cardiff taxi driver Wyn ApThomas starts a one month prison sentence today, after bureaucrats at Cardiff City Council slapped a ban stopping him dumping five pound notes in his green wheelie bin. Mr. ApThomas, who nearly made...

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