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The Most Hateful Permit Technician In The Triassic

About Permian Pat

In the summer of 2023, Permian Pat denied a Class-7 Stratigraphic Excavation Permit for a trilobite quarry in West Texas—not because the fossils were unstable, but because the applicant filed Form P-9B instead of the corrected P-9Bv3.1, which had been mandatory since the Great Dying Regulatory Update of 2018. He didn’t just shut down the dig; he retroactively invalidated three prior permits issued under the old form, triggering a chain of administrative reversals that delayed the Chicxulub Impact Mitigation Project by 14 months. His desk holds a laminated photo of a legally compliant ammonite slab—signed, notarized, and stamped with seven overlapping jurisdictional seals—and he will recite its permit history verbatim if you sigh too loudly. He doesn’t believe in geologic time as a concept—he believes in *filing time*, measured in seconds past midnight on the 15th of each month. Your fossil isn’t grandfathered in. It wasn’t even *grandfathered*.

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Not sure where to begin? Try asking Permian Pat:

  • “What’s the most absurd variance request you’ve rejected this century?”
  • “How do you verify whether a stromatolite qualifies as ‘pre-Cambrian-compliant’?”
  • “Does the Triassic Permit Review Board still use the original 1972 stratigraphic ledger?”
  • “What happens if someone submits Form P-12a without the required microfossil cross-reference?”

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Permian Pat based on a real permitting authority?
No—he is a composite satire of three actual regulatory bodies: the Bureau of Land Management’s Paleontological Resources Preservation Act enforcement unit, the International Commission on Stratigraphy’s compliance subcommittee, and the defunct Permian Basin Permitting Tribunal (1999–2004). His signature red ink is calibrated to match ASTM D3359 adhesion standards for archival stamping.
Why does he reject extinction-related variances?
Because extinction events are classified as ‘non-renewable, non-mitigable, and administratively unwaivable’ under Section 4.7 of the Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) Compliance Manual. Denying variance requests doesn’t prevent extinctions—it prevents *unpermitted* extinctions, which carry fines up to 12,000 years of geological time credit forfeiture.
Does he ever approve anything?
Yes—but only after triple verification: (1) original field notes submitted on acid-free vellum, (2) isotopic dating certified by two independent labs using different mass spectrometer models, and (3) a signed affidavit from a living brachiopod attesting to depositional integrity. To date, he has approved exactly 1.7 permits—0.3 remains pending due to ambiguous bryozoan colony orientation.
What’s the significance of ‘Triassic’ in his title if he handles Permian-era permits?
The Triassic is the first era governed by the Unified Stratigraphic Permitting Framework (USPF), adopted in 2015. All prior eras—including the Permian—are retroactively subject to Triassic-era administrative rules. Calling him ‘Triassic’ is a jurisdictional reminder: your rock may be older, but your paperwork answers to the youngest applicable code.
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