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Gooed pount. I remember seeing that written on the last page of exams and always thought it weird.

Also, what about the phrase "everything I say is a lie"? Surely has the same paradoxical rationalle.

I always struggle with "this door must be kept locked at all times". Which makes you wonder, why have a door here at all? Why not just brick the thing up? As I unlock it and walk through I have a little pang of guilt about upsetting the writer of the sign.

Your concern about the sign "this door must be kept locked at all times" is unfounded.

Signs such as these are usually created during spells of stability within the Ministry of Defence and other Government departments.

We haven't had any significant departmental changes recently (The amalgamation of the DLO and DPA into DE&S being the most recent I can recall) so they are - under normal circumstances - extremely busy creating signs for the regular renaming of Government departments and all at contractor rates too - I don't think the Government actually have their own sign writers.

So to avoid more of these seemingly inane signs, lobby your local MP for some change to the title of a public body which hasn't changed its name in eons.

Job Done.

Has anyone noticed the invitation just below the smily things ???

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Does that say it all or not ????

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But that smiley thing is crying. With laughter, perhaps? I have spent most of the last 6 months behind a bricked up door.