Description
Why are things the way they are instead of the way they should be?
THE OFFICIAL EXPLANATIONS
contains over 1500 new rules, definitions, principles, proverbs, aphorisms and deductions, gathered from the life experiences of people who, like Paul Dickson, are daily challenged by the little ironies and inconsistencies of life.
Official Explanations, Law of.
When the word official is used in conjunction with an explanation, it can only follow that the explanation is unwittingly wrong, a half-truth, or an outright lie,
Hebertson's Law of Budgets.
Don't worry about the cost of paper clips and other office supplies-fire people, and the paper clips will take care of themselves.
Paul Dickson's bestselling The Official Rules was the first definitive handbook on 'institutional tomfoolery, human imperfectibility and the perversity of inanimate objects? THE OFFICIAL EXPLANATIONS goes beyond even that to explore new realms of chaos and confusion.
ISBN:0099266504
