was struggling hard to hold my sides together whilst perusing this about the lives and times of the Home Office cat. where there were four actually all named Peter/Peta.
sample the following fine bureaucratic load of tosh:
Peter III, a third black moggy, was appointed and after a number of years he began to attract wider publicity, appearing in 1958 on the BBC programme Tonight.
The file released under the new Act yesterday includes Peter's fan mail from around the world, including letters and offers of presents from Australia, turned down on the grounds that "since Peter is an established civil servant he cannot be allowed to receive gifts".
Efforts to make him a higher-grade civil servant would be "most embarrassing", a mandarin wrote.
The animal's antecedents are, to say the least, questionable and I doubt whether even a short birth certificate could be produced.
"There have been no regular annual reports on his conduct, although no adverse comment has been made on the strong suspicion that he courts publicity and actually revels in it.
"Moreover, there may be a security risk, in as much as though there is some evidence that he has been doctored, there is none whatever that he has been vetted."
ta to the freedom of information act that allowed previously secret files to be released for public scrutiny.
as enscribed by the letter b @ January 6, 2005 06:41 AM