Having been unemployed for about three months now, I read stories like these with a kind of keen nostalgia. (Even if it is about the German workforce:
[Theologian and psychologist Thomas Holtbernd] added: “Humour relieves the pressure in all forms of life and especially so in the workplace. It doesn’t have to be clowns and a Monty Python sketch every five minutes, however.”
Although wouldn’t that be an interesting place to work?
Speaking of Monty Python — which I guess, really, I need no excuse to do — the Penn State Monty Python Society is apparently in the process of updating its constitution. (All my intel comes secondhand these days.) Anyway, in preparation for that revision, one of the Society’s members sent out the earlier version, last revised (coincidentally, if I recall) on September 11, 2001. My favorite part of that particular constitution (written, I believe, by then Minister of War Victor Colonna) has always been Article I, Clause E, which reads:
The Hindu Clause: Everyone is a member of the Monty Python Society, even if they don’t believe that they are a member of the Monty Python Society.
But really, how can you not like a constitution threatens to use Robert’s Rules of Order “as a weapon in gladiatorial combat”?