Compare and Contrast:

Pythagoras - His theorem used                  24 words

The Lords Prayer                                      66 words

Archimedes Principle                                67 words

The Ten Commandments                        179 words

The above were all world-changing events.

But our new EU Directive for the sale of cabbages, (yes my friends, bloody cabbages!!) amounts to, wait for it, twenty six thousand, two hundred and fifty three words. 26,253!