Re: NEW ELEMENT FOUND (science humor)

on Fri, 26 May 2006 10:28:50 -0500, Jo Schaper <joschapern4ospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sez:
` GoldMine wrote:
` > NEW ELEMENT FOUND

` A quick net search reveals that governmentium has been known ever since
` the a-bomb project and Challenger explosion (cf Feynmann) and has been
` circulating on the Net since at least 2002.

` Now, how is the search for anti-governmentium going?

Yorp. The original "copier humour" version was "administratium", and
probably was generated in the comsci dept of a university or corporate
entity, sometime in the sixties or early seventies. I think I can
place my first sighting prior to 1980. Obviously the neo-con anti-
gubmint forces revamped it to be closer to their midmanagement-MBA
administration-loving souls sometime in the reactionary '90s.

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