The Department of Redundancy Department
Volume I, Issue No. 2 | November 2026
A Crisis of Administrative Proportions
The Department of Redundancy Department has announced the successful formation of the Emergency Committee for the Review of Emergency Committee Formation, following an emergency meeting called to determine whether an emergency meeting should have been called.
The meeting was attended by seventeen officials, eleven assistants, four substitute assistants, and one elderly gentleman who wandered in looking for the privy.
The gentleman was unanimously elected Deputy Chairman.
According to the official minutes, the committee’s first order of business was to determine whether the committee existed.
After six hours of debate, the members agreed that it probably did, although several expressed concern that acknowledging its existence might require additional paperwork.
A subcommittee was immediately formed to investigate.
The Great Form 27-B Disaster
Trouble began when the committee discovered that the application required to authorize its formation, Form 27-B, could only be issued by an already authorized committee.
Unfortunately, the committee responsible for issuing Form 27-B had been dissolved three weeks earlier by the Committee for the Reduction of Unnecessary Committees.
That committee, in turn, had been suspended pending an investigation into whether it had been authorized to reduce committees without first consulting the Committee for the Preservation of Existing Committees.
At this point, the Deputy Chairman suggested everyone go home.
His recommendation was entered into the minutes, rejected unanimously, reconsidered, approved conditionally, and forwarded to the Subcommittee on Premature Departures.
An Official Statement
A spokesperson for the Department of Redundancy Department assured the Gazette that the situation was entirely under control.
“We have established clear procedures for reviewing our procedures,” the spokesperson explained. “Once those procedures have been reviewed, we shall begin reviewing the procedures by which those reviews were conducted.”
When asked whether the department had accomplished anything, the spokesperson proudly produced a stack of forty-seven completed forms.
All were requests for additional forms.
The Editor-in-Chief Intervenes
Upon learning that the committee had requested additional funding, Gazette Editor-in-Chief Nynkies Nimblefingers demanded an immediate accounting of its expenditures.
The department responded by sending him a twelve-page questionnaire asking him to clarify what he meant by “accounting,” “expenditures,” and “immediate.”
Nimblefingers returned the questionnaire with a single word written across the front.
Unfortunately, the Gazette’s standards of publication prevent us from reproducing that word.
The department has since opened an inquiry into whether the Editor-in-Chief’s response constitutes an official response.
A Resolution Is Reached
After three days of deliberation, the committee announced that it had reached a unanimous decision.
The original emergency could not be identified.
However, the committee determined that the inability to identify the emergency constituted a new emergency requiring immediate investigation.
A second emergency committee has therefore been authorized.
Its first meeting has been postponed until the first committee determines whether the second committee should have been the first committee.
The Department of Redundancy Department considers this matter resolved, pending further resolution.
OFFICIAL NOTICE TO ALL READERS
Citizens wishing to submit a complaint regarding excessive bureaucracy must complete Form 91-C, Application for Permission to Request a Complaint Form.
Form 91-C may be obtained from the Office of Unnecessary Applications upon presentation of a completed Form 91-C.
Please allow six to eight weeks for immediate processing.
This notice has been approved by the Committee for the Approval of Notices Regarding Committee Approvals.
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