Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 09, 2021

Apparently, Vikings never actually wore horned helmets. I guess it was a sticking point.

The moat is infested with sharks

Alexander would have fixed it in a slash. Gordian paperwork.

Lawyers could infiltrate the other side and rewrite the user manuals for the spears to include 200 pages of warnings.

A moat full of paper and the suits are the alligators.

Throw a torch in the moat and burn all the bureaucrats. That’s a win right there.

It’s not worth going THROUGH all that paperwork.

But there may be a way to GET AROUND it.

“Men with Briefcases” has the ring of a rock group

Strike a match….

Until someone comes with the idea of fire.

And with a bureaucratic (rule by desk) society there won’t be anything valuable to pillage.

Not to the trees, they aren’t.

We give credit for the invention of bureaucracy to Hammurabi… Mostly because we think old Babylon invented it, and he’s the only ruler anyone has heard of. The prior empire, the Akkadian had no bureaucracy, so Sargon had to do everything – which meant constantly leading the army around and doing administration. Bureaucracy allowed the king to enjoy the comfort of the palace while giving underlings the authority to make decisions in his name. Makes it easier for the guy on top… Unless an underling kicks you out – see stewards kicking out the Merovingian dynasty and becoming the Carolingian dynasty or the Prince of Moscow kicking out the Mongols.

Get away before they can tie you up with their dreaded red tape!

Bureaucracy is the foundation of civilization.

How many reams of paper are in a roll of red tape?

Some times you burn first…

Wondering what or who exactly is the target here?

You must show signed receipts for security and insurance before we issue a riot and loot permit. The insurance must include an uninsured counterdemonstrator rider.

Thank you. Have a nice day.

He got us again…. first it was his taxes he had permanently audited and now he’s permanently audited the election results… well if it worked once….

If there was one Marine with a match in that army, the barbarians would be in that gate before the torts popped. Later their chiefs would give it back and rebuild the moat.

French bureaucratic taunters? “I collate in your general direction!”

Does anyone here remember what red tape is? When I was a kid, electricians tape came in rolls that had removable red material on one side. The removable red stuff separted the strands so that it wouldn’t all stick together in the rolls. When you pulled off some for use you peeled the red material off and tossed it away. As far as I know, that was the “red tape”. Once you peeled it off, it was useless for anything else.

I think a torch would do wonders.

Forefathers of California bureaucrats.

Paperwork (& red tape) is always imposed from top down. Gov’t. to citizen, corporation to client, school to student, landlord to tenant, doctor to patient,… . Benefit (if it can be called that) always flows from bottom up. Lawyers and bureaucrats make it happen.

“Remove the document—and you remove the man.”

― Mikhail Bulgakov

Rudy Giuliani has done more damage than a thousand barbarians. Though he is a barbarian — employed by the Prince of Barbarians.

Oh, I dunno.I think a couple of torches will take cares of the paperwork and the paper-pushers quicksmart.

I always figured that briefcases always contain underwear.

From the teachings of The Great Penda;

‘’A panda who looks for ways to fail, will find what he seeks.’’

Me? Just toss a torch into that pile of papers.

I think this would be an excellent time for some dead lawyer jokes, give us your best stuff.

It’s easy to cut through the paperwork. You’ve got swords.

that is where we get the term kill all the lawyers

Just light the whole thing on fire. Paper burns really good.

Nonfungable booty.

I know that bureaucracy is a traditional target, but I have a feeling it’s about the only thing that saved us 2016_2020

The Far Side: A column of Vikings carrying briefcases approaches a castle. Atop the walls, the king says, “Egad! Vikings! And they mean business!”

The trouble is that cutting Paper dulls the edge very quickly.

“Get the torches! We’ll BURN our way through!”

Bureaucratic Historical Society??