I wonder why the Canadian Beaurocracy always seems to get it's knickers in a Knot and drag things out so much
I think it must be genetic because a perfect piece of Canadian Beaurocracy stuff - up came to my notice....
I was watching a late, late piece of rubbish on the TV the other night (insomnia you know !!). It was a docco about the last days of the War with the Japanese, and covered the surrender ceremony on-board the USS Missouri in Tokyo Harbour.
There were the Japanese delegates in morning coats and top-hats and of course, the military representatives from all the Allied Nations that had contributed to the War effort.
First the Japanese signed the 2 documents of surrender...with neatness and precision (although they did look a bit pissed off !!!)
Then it was the turn of all the Allied Commanders to sign........
4th on the list was the Canadian rep........Major General somebody or other.........
And he signed IN THE WRONG PLACE on the document !!!!
Of course, all the others who came next...were in a complete tizz about it, because they now could not sign in the right spot on the documents.
The Japanese were furious and began to demand that the whole thing be postponed until a new set of blank documents could be provided...this would of course mean that War was again declared in the interim day or so !!!
Nobody could quite work our what to do, until Blamey (the Aussie) suggested that the American legal eagle present, strike out all the typed titles on the document and hand wrote them in to compensate for the Canadian goof-up.
Everybody finally agreed to this and the War got ended on the right day !!!!
Only in Canada