An intuitive and nuanced take on the new civil service guidelines from Paul Caplan at the Internationale.

The much larger and more explicatory document can be found on his flickr account.

“Some of these jokes are minor masterpieces,” said Doina Doru, a Romanian proofreader who spent ten years checking that Ceausescu’s name was spelt correctly in the daily newspaper. (Prospect Magazine, speaking to the influence of jokes designed to criticize Communist regimes)