office life

“The best acronyms, of course, should provide no clue as to their meaning, and yet be bandied about as if the meaning were known to all. Once their meaning is known to all, however, their bureaucratic utility declines: for acronyms are to modern bureaucrats what incantations are to ancient shamans”
Dr. Theodore Dalrymple, fulminating against the British National Health Service.

“Modern bureaucrats” have nothing on blonde shamanesses, sayeth the Fool.