The following resolutions were passed by the Board of Councilmen in Canton, Mississippi:–
Resolved, by this Council, that we build a new Jail.
Resolved, that the new Jail be built out of the materials of the old Jail.
Resolved, that the old Jail be used until the new Jail is finished.
– Charles Carroll Bombaugh, Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature, 1875
H/T DML
Friday 6 February 2009
Bureaucracy never changes.......
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What they don't tell you is that the inmates will dismantle the old and build the new. Until such time as the new jail is built they will be sleeping under the stars... probably chained to a tree.
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