This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS

For reasons both trivial and indiscreet I can't really elaborate why this struck me as particularly funny:

At Language Log, Mark Liberman comments,

In 1989, shortly before I left the industrial research job that I had held for the previous 15 years, corporate headquarters appointed me to a committee to decide on a procedure for evaluating methodologies for prioritizing follow-up actions in the wake of a "technology portfolio fair" where researchers had explained new technologies to heads of product development in various branches of the company.

We weren't authorized to decide what to do, nor even to suggest priorities for alternative actions, nor yet to suggest a methodology for assigning priorities to alternative actions, nor for that matter to evaluate alternative methodologies for assigning priorities to alternative actions. Instead, we were tasked with designing a procedure for evaluating methodologies for assigning priorities to possible decisions. From a certain perspective, the mere ability to conceive and communicate such a task was a triumph of the human intellect.

LOL. Oh, the human capacity for abstract thought, you are beautiful and occasionally terrifying. And sometimes just absurdly funny.