Yesterday at our compulsory anthrax briefing, we learned that one does not have to be articulate to be a spokesperson for small-town government. Best sample: "I don't want to paranoid anybody but you have to be observant of Middle Easterns." Reminds me of a buddy in another department whose boss, a wanna-be stickler for detail, was always advocating doing things with "more finite exaction." I'm sure he makes three times as much money as I do.

Then there's the old standby, "This page intentionally left blank."

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