make two copies (Army rule)
A reference in todays NYTimes:A moment later, Justice Kennedy said the government's position reminded him of "the old Army rule, make two copies of everything you throw out."I couldnt find in OED,...
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You left out what is in my opinion the most likely possibility: that he was alluding to an old joke about the Army's* approach to paperwork, which is present on the Web only in a modernized version...
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I think my "(d)" covered the alleged omitted possibility.
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Only if you consider repeating an old joke to be "inventing" it.
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If you had shown it was an old joke, with a reference to an "Army rule," your point would have more sting.
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The question of whether "repeating" and "inventing" are distinct things is surely a separate one from the question of which Kennedy was doing.
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I agree that I should have had a fifth category for "repeating an old joke" if, but only if, there was an old joke concerning an Army rule as to making two copies when throwing something out. My...
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I would hardly think it necessary to come up with a citation of the "old Army joke." I once witnessed, during my stay in the Navy, a case where someone had wrongfully initialed something and had to...
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>once witnessed, during my stay in the Navy, a case where someone had wrongfully initialed something and had to draw a line through his intitials and then initial the fact that he had made the...
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Whether it was a joke or not, it was an actual occurrence.
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In the Navy any corrections to logs must be initialed. I remember a case from my Navy days where a person made what he thought was an error. He crossed it out and initialed it. Then discovered it was...
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It took an act of faith to decide what he actually meant.You got it, coop!
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Maybe more of those initialers should be carrying weapons instead.
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May we should do a search in German:Quote:The most stupid government workers are without doubt German "Beamten". In a government office I had to visit, I overheard the following conversation between...
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I saw a sign in a gift shop in Berlin which said something like "Beamten are like sperm. There are millions of them, but only one actually accomplishes anything."Here's the two copies joke in...
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