Miscellaneous

I Dig San Francisco's Sense of Humor

The best jokes are the ridiculously elaborate ones that come at taxpayer's expense:

A San Francisco measure seeking to commemorate President Bush's years in office by slapping his name on a city sewage plant has qualified for the November ballot.

The measure certified Thursday would rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.

Backers said the idea is to commemorate the mess they claim Bush has left behind by actions such as the war in Iraq.

Local Republicans contend the plan stinks and said they would oppose it.

Get it? Cause Bush was a shitty President! Get it? Get it?

I bet it passes, too. And then those poor schmucks who work there will forever have to tell people they are employed by Bush Sewage.

[Seth here, just to add what I think is the best part of this story -- the SF Public Utilities Commission spokesman suggests that they're against this because the plant is anything but a symbol of inadequacy: "The plant that they're seeking to rename really offers extraordinary environmental benefits. Without it, raw sewage and storm water would flow into the bay and the oceans and the streets. That's not our understanding of what the authors of this initiative believe the current president has delivered." So the folks behind the shit factory don't even want it to be named after Bush. Hilarious.]

Full post as published by Quiz Law on July 18, 2008 (boomark / email).