This has made my day - A very appropriate tribute

[Grumpmeister]

Think of all the monuments there have been to past presidents, Mount Rushmore, The Lincoln Memorial to name 2. Now what could you use to immortalise Dubya?  How about a sewage plant, after the amount of cr@p he spouted to justify invading Iraq I couldnt think of a better choice.. 

A citizens group in San Francisco wants to pay an ironic tribute to President George W Bush when he leaves office - by naming a sewage plant after him.

The group, calling itself the Presidential Memorial Committee of San Francisco, wants the issue voted on at this November's election.

"It's important to remember our leaders in the right historical context," said petition organiser Brian McConnell.

The Republican Party thinks the plan stinks, and it will fight the measure.

Mr McConnell's group has submitted more than 12,000 signatures on a petition to the San Francisco Department of Elections.

If at least 7,168 of those signatures are found to be valid, the question of whether to rename Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant after the outgoing president will be added to the ballot papers in November.

"In President Bush's case, we think that we will be cleaning up a substantial mess for the next 10 or 20 years," said Mr McConnell.

"The sewage treatment facility's job is to clean up a mess, so we think it's a fitting tribute."

'Ashamed'

But one Californian Republican, Patrick Dorinson, said the plan was "a horrible idea".

"This is why San Francisco is considered wacky," the former California Republican Party spokesman told the Associated Press.

"It makes me ashamed to be a San Franciscan if this is all they've got time to do."

And a city official stressed that Oceanside offered "extraordinary environmental benefits".

"That's not our understanding of what the authors of this initiative believe the current president has delivered," said Tony Winnicker of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.

Mr Bush will leave office in January 2009.

[Pastis]

Last night's repeat of 'Clue' (tribute to Humph) included a game in which the panel had to complete some of Bush's quotations.

It was one instance where the original, revealed afterwards, was funnier in a perverse sort of way.

[Grumpmeister]

Looks like I'm logging on to Iplayer later on then. 

[Uncle Mort]

I listened to that on the train home last night. Absolutely brilliant! and made me laugh out loud 

 

[Pastis]

Indeed Unc, and some very good Samantha asides as well. Fortunately my laughter was in the privacy of home 

[Nick]

This went off topic in Post 2. A record?

[Snoopy]

  Possibly

[Mozo]

 

Like I said.

A large erect cucumber, with the inscription,

"Grows best in shit."

George W Bush. President of the United States of America.



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[Barman]

This went off topic in Post 2. A record?

No... some of yours are off topic in the OP! 

[Darwins Selection]

Like I said.

A large erect cucumber, with the inscription,

"Grows best in shit."

George W Bush. President of the United States of America.
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You forgot your blue tablet


G'day Moz by the way

[Nick]

This went off topic in Post 2. A record?

No... some of yours are off topic in the OP! 

I do my best