Department of Redundancy Dept.

Firesign Theater has many memorable lines, but this one has stuck with the curmudgeon, working in a large Corporation and all.


It even applies to my little hometown, all 9,000 of us (I'm skipping the 6,000 kids for obvious reasons).  We actually have our own electric company, and, as the curmudgeon's best friend constantly lectures him at diner breakfasts, the smaller the pool, the larger the costs.  Kind of a clue to our taxes.


In comes the Firesign Theater moment: when the power went out all over town because of the recent snowfall on fully-leaved trees, I looked in the phone book for a responsible person to call, rather than the police, who must have had their hands full, and found a person called "emergency management."


Said person wasn't even there - straight to voice mail.


Now that's a Firesign Theater moment.