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Genuine question - can you post some more information?

throwawayornot 10y ago
maybe the other poster meant this one? Oct 1976 Frederick, MD: http://www.fredericknewspost.com/archive/flood-flashback/article_a8907abd-8ead-5abb-b180-84fc1ed61684.html http://www.fredericknewspost.com/archive/flood-flashback/art...
taneq 10y ago
It was a quote from the TV show 'Yes, Minister': James Hacker: How am I going to explain the missing documents to "The Mail"? Sir Humphrey Appleby: Well, this is what we normally do in circumstances like these. James Hacker: [reads memo] This file contains the complete set of papers, except for a number of secret documents, a few others which are part of still active files, some correspondence lost in the floods of 1967... James Hacker: Was 1967 a particularly bad winter? Sir Humphrey Appleby: No, a marvellous winter. We lost no end of embarrassing files. James Hacker: [reads] Some records which went astray in the move to London and others when the War Office was incorporated in the Ministry of Defence, and the normal withdrawal of papers whose publication could give grounds for an action for libel or breach of confidence or cause embarrassment to friendly governments. James Hacker: That's pretty comprehensive. How many does that normally leave for them to look at? James Hacker: How many does it actually leave? About a hundred?... Fifty?... Ten?... Five?... Four?... Three?... Two?... One?... Zero? Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes, Minister. (Source: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0030014/quotes http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0030014/quotes) Edit: Although apparently a similar real-life incident occurred when Hurricane Sandy wiped out a significant portion of an FBI record archive: https://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/archival-neglect-flooding-of-fbi-archives-destroyed-hundreds-of-thousands-of-pages-of-files-related-to-civil-rights-movement-history/ https://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/archival-neglect-...
- goldenkey 10y ago
  Reminds me of this: The Front Fell Off - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
  - tamana 10y ago
    The is Australian, and if you like it, look for _The Games_ on YouTube, a mock drama series about the 1996 Sydney Olympic Games organizing committee

maybe the other poster meant this one? Oct 1976 Frederick, MD: http://www.fredericknewspost.com/archive/flood-flashback/article_a8907abd-8ead-5abb-b180-84fc1ed61684.html http://www.fredericknewspost.com/archive/flood-flashback/art...

taneq 10y ago

It was a quote from the TV show 'Yes, Minister': James Hacker: How am I going to explain the missing documents to "The Mail"? Sir Humphrey Appleby: Well, this is what we normally do in circumstances like these. James Hacker: [reads memo] This file contains the complete set of papers, except for a number of secret documents, a few others which are part of still active files, some correspondence lost in the floods of 1967... James Hacker: Was 1967 a particularly bad winter? Sir Humphrey Appleby: No, a marvellous winter. We lost no end of embarrassing files. James Hacker: [reads] Some records which went astray in the move to London and others when the War Office was incorporated in the Ministry of Defence, and the normal withdrawal of papers whose publication could give grounds for an action for libel or breach of confidence or cause embarrassment to friendly governments. James Hacker: That's pretty comprehensive. How many does that normally leave for them to look at? James Hacker: How many does it actually leave? About a hundred?... Fifty?... Ten?... Five?... Four?... Three?... Two?... One?... Zero? Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes, Minister. (Source: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0030014/quotes http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0030014/quotes) Edit: Although apparently a similar real-life incident occurred when Hurricane Sandy wiped out a significant portion of an FBI record archive: https://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/archival-neglect-flooding-of-fbi-archives-destroyed-hundreds-of-thousands-of-pages-of-files-related-to-civil-rights-movement-history/ https://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/archival-neglect-...

goldenkey 10y ago
Reminds me of this: The Front Fell Off - http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
- tamana 10y ago
  The is Australian, and if you like it, look for _The Games_ on YouTube, a mock drama series about the 1996 Sydney Olympic Games organizing committee