Here's a pretty little one, RAF Guetersloh SROs c. 1970:
"......... The persons to whom this instruction applies are to ............."
We searched high and low for definition of "the persons to whom".
Indeed so,
langleyb, totally meaningless. In a similar vein, I recall a meeting in MoD with the Foreign Office some years ago, to try and decide - I think in an evacuation - where the responsibilities of the FO finished and those for the MoD began - and
vice versa.
All eyes turned to Sir Humphrey from the FO... [my comments/stage directions in square brackets]
Sir H: Clearly [always a bad sign] ....... [long pause] ...the FO retains responsibility .......... [long pause] ..... in those areas .... [shorter pause] ... for which it is responsible. [answer ends!]
