Procedures for supposedly obvious things

[James Barrow]

>Keith Hood wrote:
>
>In a class I took many moons ago, we were given an assignment to write a
>procedure on how to use a chair.

Hmmm...this might be a good time to ask this again...

Approximately three years ago, I was surfing the Internet and came across a
short article (column? blog?) that had me rolling with laughter.

It described a college student (tech writer?) who was given the assignment
of describing a mouse (the rodent kind).  She began by stating the obvious
and keeping it simple:  "A mouse has four legs, a long tail, and is covered
with fur".

She turns in the assignment and the professor/editor returns the paper with
the following comment:  "Provide more detail".

To make a long story short, the student takes her once brief paper and turns
it into a thesis on mice, describing every possibly detail about a mouse.

The professor's final comment was something along the lines of:  "Too
wordy".

Does this sound familiar to anyone?  I've been looking for this off and on
since I first saw it with no luck.