| What's New | |
24th November, 2003 Welcome to SABRE! Please visit the UK SABRE UK Roads SABRE Portal (UK) at www.uk-roads.org.uk
You are welcome to browse the site, but to contribute to the discussion, you'll need to join. You have to provide a genuine e-mail address, and please be prepared to tell us your favourite bulletin board software!
| Due to popular demand, a new MSN Group has been launched to discuss the administration of SABRE Admin. You can find this new group here. We're up to 4 members already! Feel free to join, and "enjoy pointless, narcoleptic wrangling over procedural minutiae" as PeterE so aptly put it. |
New this week on SABRE!
A new society has come to my attention - the Society for Administration, Bureaucracy and Regulating Everything (SABRE). "For too long we admin enthusiasts have suffered in the closet," said Beelzebub Anthracite, the Society's President and Deputy Convener of the Executive Sub-Committee of the Steering Group of the Constitutional Convention on Procedure. "No one else seemed to understand the thrill of drafting another constitutional amendment, the joy of creating a new committee, the sheer delirium of the Single Transferable Vote. Before I joined I thought I was the only one!" The society is highly active on the internet, often creating as many as 25 new bulletin boards in a single week. "My favourite board is the Boards Admin Board," said Mr Anthracite. "This is entirely devoted to discussions of what platform we should use for all the other boards. No one could agree on what platform we should use for the Boards Admin Board itself, so we set up a new board called the Boards Admin Admin Board. Then we realized that the Boards Admin Admin Board was itself a board and hence could be construed to come under the remit of the Boards Admin Board. We resolved this dispute by extending the remit of the Boards Admin Board to cover the Boards Admin Board itself. However, this left us without a use for the Boards Admin Admin Board, which is now exclusively devoted to discussing the purpose of its own existence." So does Mr Anthracite see a future for SABRE? "The future is very bright. We're currently in negotations over a book which will be the definitive guide to British Admin - we now have a listing of every committee of every organization in the country, as well as a comprehensive history of bureaucracy and plenty of light-hearted items like "Ten Things You Never Knew about Composite Motions". Next year we're planning a tour of the historic meeting-rooms of Britain. And our Annual General Meetings have become so popular that we're going to hold one every week!" Mr Anthracite's presidency has been somewhat controversial. There was a major split in the Society when the Standing Committee on Committee Membership failed to agree on its own membership, creating a constitutional crisis for which some members felt he was personally responsible. Would he consider stepping aside to allow a successor to be chosen? "Not bloody likely. What do you think this is - the Tory party?" |
More new features this week...
Please note: SABRE is neither a community about cars or driving, nor an anti-road protest site. It exists solely to discuss the merits of different bulletin boards and to provide a safe havens for anal retentives of all walks of life.
Regards,
Chris H
