After Dinner Speaking - facts:

[David Morton]

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All you Need to Know about Government Bureaucracy:



Pythagorean theorem: ...........................................24 words.

Lord's prayer:....................................................... 66 words.

Archimedes' Principle: ........................................... 67 words.

10 Commandments: ............................................ 179 words.

Gettysburg address: ............................................ 286 words.

US Declaration of Independence : .................... 1,300 words.

US Constitution with all 27 Amendments: .......... 7,818 words.

EU regulations on the sale of cabbage:....... 26,911 words.






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[Jim Craik]

Gees David,

I bet you Europeans have very nice cabbage!

 

[Jack]

And very expensive.

 

[Wayne]

I wonder how many words are in the 2000 page U.S. health care bill.

 

[Jack]

Wayne, 184,672 words.

 

[Frank Catt]

Thats only 92.3 words per page, must be a lot of pictures in that document !

 

[Jim Craik]

Guys, by your numbers,

Thats only 6.86 times more words than the European Cabbage regulations.

We have those Europeans beat by a lot!

 

[Dalton Veitch]

Jim, I told you not to mention cabbage.

 

[Jack]

BTW, anyone know which famous driver was nicknamed "Cabbage"?