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date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:38:20 -0700 (PDT),    group: uk.rec.cycling        back       
Re: Good to know our police are in such good health..   
On 17 Sep, 12:32, "Just zis Guy, you know?" 
wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:26:28 -0700 (PDT), "Sniper8...@yahoo.co.uk"
>  said in
> :
>
> >I must confess to a certain density, I don't get it.
>
> One of the themes in the film Brazil is that people are charged for
> "Information Retrieval" when they are accused of a crime.  Since the
> Information Retrieval method is torture, they usually end up
> confessing, and thus convicted.  Hence "Don't fight it son, confess
> quickly. If you hold out too long, you could jeopardise your credit
> rating."
>
> It is a very amusing satire on the theme of bureaucracy and its
> inability to understand the concept of human error.
>
> It's a very good film, with Jonathan Price, Robert de Niro, Ian
> Holm, Bob 'Oskins, Ian Richardson, Peter Vaughan and Jim Broadbent.
> If you've not seen it, I recommend it - a more surreal alternative
> to 1984.  Oh, and written and directed by Terry Gilliam.
>
> Guy
> --
> May contain traces of irony.  Contents liable to settle after posting.http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk
>
> 85% of helmet statistics are made up, 69% of them at CHS, Puget Sound

Ah, now I get it.  Had the wrong hymn sheet out.

Sniper8052
date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:38:20 -0700 (PDT)   author:   unknown

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