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<oerjan> # Stolen from Roger9//`learn Bureaucracy (from French bureau, "burrow") is a political system in which squirrels rule the nation, and burrow their nuts.
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The abbreviation fad began in Boston in the summer of 1838 and spread to New York and New Orleans in 1839.