How many
bureaucrats
-- does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Seven-- one to supervise, one to arrange for the electricity
to be shut off, one to make sure that safety and quality
standards are maintained, one to monitor compliance with
local, state, and federal regulations, one to manage
personnel relations, one to fill out the paperwork and one to
screw the light bulb into the water faucet....
How many
Christians
-- does it take to change a light bulb?
200!!! 100 to sit in church and pray long sonorous prayers for it
to see the light again, 10 to stand on street corners and point out
to others how that if they don't accept what they're being told,
their light might go out as well, 3 to try and exorcise the demon of
darkness out of the light bulb, 2 to gather together in
"the name of the lord" because where two or more are gathered together
in "his" name....
Helga, how many Germans does it take to change a light bulb ?
Ah, is this the one about the highly-trained quality control
checkers at the Lowenbrau brewery here in the beautiful city of
Munich where they have to carefully check that each and every
stage of the bier brewing process adheres to the Reinheitsgebot
ancient brewing laws laid down in 1516 which set minimum
standards for the purity of the ingredients otherwise they'd be
subject to extremely enormous fines so quality control is a
very important job both in terms of the quality of all the
Lowenbrau biers and of course the financial good health of the
company from the checking of the malted barley with the hops
not forgetting the pure Bavarian spring water by any chance ?...