A word on naming things.

As Dave has shown me this week, somebody has to do the hard work of developing a suitable name for an organization, and you have to really work to get suitable acronyms - hilarious and otherwise. The same apparently holds true for naming the various publications and paper trails that are the life-blood of any bureaucracy. You kinda want to meet the "faceless gummint bureaucrat"/editors who work at the various government printing presses when you see work like this:



Or this...



And I certainly have to know the story behind the person who came up with this: