This British American Life has a funnier example of American political absurdity than the one I sent out a little while ago. Follow the link to learn about the paperwork you have to submit if you want to be reimbursed for going to the moon. Because you can never tell when you might need to know that.
And while we’re talking about absurdity, don’t you just love that I provided a link back to my own post, even though I said wasn’t as funny? Anybody want to place bets on how many people will follow it?
Notes from the U.K. 
Thank you so much for featuring this, Ellen. When I saw this post from Buzz Aldrin, it was too good not to share.
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It’s a pleasure. I wonder if he wasn’t tempted to write in the miles from earth to the moon.
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He couldn’t since he took “Gov. Air”.
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Still, think of the temptation–just for the sake of raising someone’s eyebrows.
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The temptation would be there, but the bureaucrats would just sent the form back. Buzz would have just had to fill everything out again, and I am sure he just wanted his money.
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You’re wiser than I am. I’ve never met a form I couldn’t fill out wrong–although I admit it’s usually by accident.
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I am usually left fumbling around trying to find the requisite black pen.
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Oooh, I’d forgotten about the UK forms always demanding black ink.
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Here too. We are kindred spirits.
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I guess I just click away on links in a blog post after I’ve read it. I opened both links before realizing I had read them both before and I did remember them as well. Just clicked the links out of habit I guess.
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Ah, habits. At least it didn’t take too much time out of your day.
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Not at all. Better too click once to often than missing out…
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72.
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So far zero are registering, although masgautsen commented that she clicked through then realized she’d already read it. Tells you what stats are worth.
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At least two! I always think if I don’t follow the links and then make a comment I might have missed something vital and make a prat of myself in the comment. ;)
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The official count is 17. Yesterday I said no one showed up on the stats as clicking through. Turns out I was looking in the wrong place, which didn’t help.
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I still struggle to understand how the stats work and what they all mean. Generally speaking though, if the content of a post is one I’m particularly interested in, I will follow the links and am rarely sorry. I’ve been on some fabulous adventures linking from one post to another then finding more there and going on. I acknowledge that, if I make links within mine for whatever reason, not everyone who reads will follow them but I figure if they’re meant to read it they will and if not, at least I tried to make it easier. I do get lost sometimes, right enough, and forget where I started out. ;)
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My experience almost exactly.
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We could just go on an eternal loop with the links. It could all fit into a quantum spacetime theme.
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I’m going to say that’s exactly what would happen, just as if I understood it.
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I just skimmed this post, and I haven’t a clue what you all are talking about!
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I’m tempted to say that I haven’t a clue what I’m talking about myself half the time, but this once, for a change, I do: It’s the absurdity of an astronaut having to fill in careful paperwork documenting his expenses for a trip to the moon. How did you travel? Government transportation. Etc. It’s all so mundane, and you really have to stretch the categories to make what he did fit inside them. But the bureaucrats must have the boxes filled in.
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I think I was not clear. I was being absurd.
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Well that’s a relief. And in the interests of absurdity, I just managed to hit Like on my own comment.
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If you don’t like your own comment, who will? I am starting to feel like a stalker, so I am out of here!
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Sometimes I’m the only one who does like them. As for stalking, we’re okay so far.
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