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Subject:Re: Two Minutes Hate From:"Susan Hogarth" <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Barry Campbell" <barry -dot- campbell -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Wed, 23 May 2007 09:57:08 -0400
On 5/23/07, Barry Campbell <barry -dot- campbell -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> On 5/23/07, Susan Hogarth <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> > I left out that this is a proposal - if they say 'paper' (and they
> > do), we head to the woods with an axe.
> >
> > I have a nightmare where the souls of trees I've murdered meet me at
> > my death and laugh hideously.
>
> One of my favorite RFP requirements of all time:
>
> A certain Western state that shall remain nameless refuses to accept
> electronic RFP submissions; however, they *do* require that the
> ridiculous number of paper copies they require you to submit be
> printed on recycled paper with at least X% (I seem to remember 20)
> "post-consumer" content, and you must "certify" this in the RFP
> response. ...
<rolls eyes>
If my mother was right, my eyes should freeze at the top of my head
after a few more weeks of close association with bureaucracy.
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