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The Bureaucracy Channel <deep breath> is a 24hr a day cable television channel which presents programming related to places of business; government offices, nongovernmental offices and semigovernmental offices, and the semi-detached personnel that reside therein; office managers, office workers and official office officials, and the many uninteresting things that the previously listed personnel do in those offices, also listed previously, including, but not exclusive to; making necklaces from paper clips and the pushing, reading, filing, faxing and misplacing of paper - all of which, we must note, is legally approved and stamped by the official approval group for the legality of such things, therein, wherefore and whyto. </deep breath>.
TBC also show programs about great events in the long and storied history of administration and comptrolling; often with observations and explanations by historians as well as historical reenactments and interviews with witnesses of those historical reenactments.
Some of TBC's original programming is also shown on the History Channel, History Television, Bureaucracy Kids, and the BBC. (more...)
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- ...that Mussolini's favourite film was Land Before Time IV?
- ... that the kitten hurling battle originated in the steamy jungles of what is now Québec as a mating ritual of the Aztecs? Men would attempt to establish dominance over each other to impress females by measure of how vicious a kittening he could receive.
- ... that this is not a pipe?
- ...that dentists have admitted that, thanks to the invention of the electric toothbrush, they are now pretty much useless? Many only survive by living on the street and collecting donations from people who give them money because they don't realize that they are dentists.
- ...that your wife is cheating on you with the pool boy?
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On this day...
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November 19: Thankstealing Day
- 2500 BC - Pharaoh Whahuti invents the phrase 'thank you'.
- 461 - St. Hilarius becomes Pope. Seriously, the dude is named Saint Hilarius. Which, when you think about it, is just kind of amusing.
- 1600s - Puritans get food from Native Americans, then drive them away and take their land.
- 1716 - Sir Isaac Newton coins the phrase 'Thanks a lot!'
- Seconds later, he coins the phrase 'Don't mention it'.
- 1848 - Irish potato famine enters its 115th day; President James K. Polk heard to utter 'I am heartened to discover that the potatos of Ireland have finally liberated themselves.'
- 1852 - It is getting pretty damn cold in Russia.
- 1942 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor. Zhukov hurts himself trying to keep from laughing when, during the middle of the battle, Stalin radios for information and asks him, "How's Uranus?"
- 2005 - Dick Cheyne celebrates the fist traditional thankstealing dinner in the white house. The main course was the traditional live puppy.
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