There has to be a joke about seppo's here somewhere (or is that just what we Australians call them)

need i say more ?

Now how do we go about getting a VD clinic renamed to "The Tony Blair treatment center"?

Excellent! Nice to have our prejudices about yanks not having a decent sense of humour challenged. Then I guess if you have Dubya as your president you seriously need a sense of humour.

Of course they still can't spell humo(u)r...

It's the right idea, except that sewer plants treat sewage and ultimately perform a service and eliminate a problem. Perhaps a toxic or nuclear "nuke-u-lar" waste dump would be a more fitting monument, or something else that creates insoluble problems for future generations to deal with.

Figures it'd be something that's full of shit.

Mine's the one with the sniper dots.

...and I will put my signature on it...as long as it's anonymous (dons tin foil hat).

According to http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/24/MNPQ11A3T7.DTL

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Officials at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, which owns the plant, say they get the humorous intent. But they note that the plant is an award-winning facility that keeps the city's streets and the ocean clean.

"If you are looking for a place to make a negative statement about the Bush administration's impact on the environment, this would be the last place to do it," agency spokesman Tony Winnicker said.

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As a friend says, that seems like the City is saying that they don't want to rename the sewage treatment plant after Bush on the grounds that it would be an insult to the sewage.

is inspirational - the foundation of democracy.

Paris angle? She'd be the first to accept a beer.

At first glance this appears a fitting memorial to the direction Dubya has taken the US, but on reflection it's not so. After all, a sewage plant plays a useful part in society.

But they have a postal address. Maybe they take contributions. Don't know what I'll write on the customs declaration: "Tribute to GWB", maybe!

It is so appropriate to honour GWBs legacy - ' I made shit smell not too bad '. I wonder if there is something appropriate for Tony Blair? Maybe some Birmingham dogging park?

...about the "George W. Bush chemical toilet disposal facility"?

And if they discover a network of fault lines in the area of the sewer plant, name the network "All George Bush's Fault"!

I cannot possibly comment :)

Ha! Good Republican spoof, very well thought out and covering all the usual ranting topics, I could hear that bible thumping....

These "San Franciscans" have truly lost their way if they think such a demeaning mean-spirited act will not have a negative impact on America's already tarnished image to many throughout the world. It's easy to dislike those that don't like themselves. And it's a horrible example of what being compassionate and truly caring about people is all about. They remind me of adolescent bullies in school, who demean other kids, calling them names or writing ugly things about them on bathrooms walls etc. And they encourage the easily influenced kids, blindly following them like disciples in a cult, to engage in the same negative destructive behavior. How will San Franciscans justify this to their children, while trying to explain why bullying and demeaning others is wrong? Do as I say, not as I do? It seems this may have been their parents approach to teaching them to be kind and compassionate. And thus, the cycle continues, like child molestation is sometimes past along in families or in this case, being a negative demeaning bully being past along. People like this are part of the problem and should consider becoming part of the solution in order to create real change. And that change begins with each of them by setting the right example for all of our children.

-Mark

Fort Worth, Tx. USA

Nah. Kiddies playpark much more in keeping with their government.

Tons of merry-go-rounds to spin news stories on, a slippery-slide down which our civil liberties go, an assault-course to train the next generation of soldiers to fight some illegal wars for us, and some swings that go ever higher and higher, much like the ones to be seen in the voting booths come 2010. Hopefully they'll be SNP gains here not the tories. If anyone could possibly make an even bigger cock-up of running the UK than Labour, it'd have be Just-Call-Me-Dave and his expenses-embezzling bunch of far-right cronies. And that's saying something! You'd be hard-pressed to do a worse job than Tony-The-Smarmed, and now Gordon-The-Confused, ably assisted by the people who brought you, and snatched away the 10p-tax-band, and sometimes assisted, usually resisted by the backstabbing-backbench-brigade of "socialists".

Sometimes you almost think the Yanks have it better.

Then you remember George. At least he's good for something :)

Robert Scott's a typical redneck a**hole. Just like the Mail readers here. He would believe everything the American Media (propoganda) throws at him!

Now for the serious stuff. Its a briliant idea but better would be for this to be franchised where every local loo /public toilets would be renamed as such so that people using it (peeing and shitting) would get a genuine vicarious pleasure in symbolically "giving it back" appropriately.

Hey, being America, this could even become a money spinner idea !

FRANCHISE IT, PLEASE!

Suegstions for UK (eg Going for a Browny/ish) name for franchise welcome.

Mines the Bulletproof one.

ha haha ha hahaa...

...quality thank you.

'...we would all be speaking Arabic right now because we would have turned French and said We Surrender!'

Sooo....the French speak Arabic and 'We surrender' is French is it?

Riiight.

Even Paris knows your arguments are flawed, and she knows some french too.

roflmao!

Nice attempt mate, but you have to be a little more subtle to sucessfully troll on the reg.

The average reg reader spends an unhealthy amount of time online and so has developed a far stronger sense of cynicism than your average message board poster.

Of course if you had said that your X-Box was better than my PS3 I would be screaming obscenities about your mother by now, but that would be totally justified. After all, X-Box sucks!

Sorry, I fell asleep halfway through your rantings.

What I did understand before napping off was that you equal warmongering and receiving oral?

Paris - obviously.

QUOTE: If we had been plagued by a John Kerry or Al Gore at the time, we would all be speaking Arabic right now because we would have turned French and said We Surrender"! UNQUOTE.

Priceless. If you had turned French, wouldn't you be speaking.... FRENCH?

What a clown...

Actually it reads a bit like the Twat-O-Tron with a polite filter on.

Oh, just go and top yourself now and get it over with, you pathetic individual.

The George W Bush raw sewerage outlet? Cus he spews nothing but sh*t? Because as so many people here have pointed out, at least a sewage plant cleans things up! It would be a fitting memorial for all those brits such as myself who are embarrassed to be in a "special relationship" with such a country. If the UK could wear a top, it would say "I'm with stupid" and point across the atlantic.

The real genius here is Mark S Deal

"And that change begins with each of them by setting the right example for all of our children."

From naming a sewer after a president, through child abuse, to "won't somebody think of the children", without even stopping for breath.

Comedy gold.

and it will be such a fitting counter point to that other sewage treatment facility that they named after his dad: http://www.flickr.com/photos/deepsignal/379963514/

that Bush is, first and foremost, a policitian? It's not like he's Mother Teresa here, and neither are any of the other ridiculous individuals that make up the other branches of gov't. I don't really care what people want to say about Bush personally (which seems silly, since he's not going to read these comments), but precisely what would be different if some other PEZ dispenser had been elected? Not one damn thing, including Iraq.

Nothing gives me tired-head faster than political bickering over who would have done what. There's a reason no one trusts politicians and the rhetoric will only get worse since this is an election year.

Mine's the one with the bullshit filters in the hood.

> and 'We surrender' is French is it?

Well, technically yes.

surrender comes from the French "se rendre", meaning "to give oneself up"

I know, I know, but it's too hot for a coat today...

i think you mean "sur rendre"

which is 'report on' or 'to report on'

no "se" in french btw (oh noes attack of the mexican french peoples) - your last name bush at all? just curious as your either lying through your teeth thinking your actually telling the truth or just dumb as a rock, either would suggest a relation as each duirectly corrolates with the other ;-)

Robert Scott wrote:

"Blah-blah <insert conservative myth> blah-bollox <insert blinkered patriotic baloney> bullshit-blah"

Hahaha-hooo-hohohohoh-hahaha-aahhh-hehehehe!

Mark S Deal wrote:

"Whine-whine <insert bizarre hyberbole> whinge-whine <insert ridiculous juxtaposition> moan-whinge"

So a little bit of satire at Bush's expense is comparable with Bush's crimes against humanity? Ask the relatives of those who have died in Abu Ghraib or those 'extraordinarily rendered' to be tortured in third countries or the parents of sick and dying Iraqi children living in streets running with raw sewage and no access to medical services. Personally I think Dubya (and Blair, Rumsfeld, etc.) should be locked up - but only after due process and a fair trial, a right that they have taken away from so many others.

Harold Holt was PM of Australia briefly in the mid-1960s. He didn't achieve much of note other than to drown while out swimming on his own on a secluded beach. Despite the lack of a body and some excellent conspiracy theories about him defecting to the Chinese and being picked up by one of their submarines, it was generally accepted that the guy had simply drowned.

The local swimming pool in his electorate, the Malvern Baths, was in the process of being redeveloped at the time. Naturally, the good burghers of Malvern decided the best way to commemorate the aquatic deficiencies of their erstwhile local member was to name the new pool after him, and in 1969, the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Pool came into being.

Screwing the pooch in Afghanistan, Iraq in general, New Orleans, Torture, Warrentless wiretapping, destruction of documents, refusing to cooperate with congress, the latest Justice Department investigation showing illegal political interference with the civil service, bullying and ignoring our allies, and a general tendency to ignore the constitution, in addition to being an arrogant, ignorant, greedy little sucker versus engaging in legal, if somewhat questionable, sexual activity. Hmmmm, yeah, I guess they are equal. Morons; people like Robert Scott and Mark Deal give all Americans a bad name and make me fear for the November elections. Does anyone need a systems/exchange admin anywhere outside of this country if another Republicanazi wins?

the Gov'ner.. chris patten

actually had the style to suggest that he would like a sewage treatment plant be named after him because of all the sh*t he had to deal with while in office.

sadly few politicians these days have such a sense of humour

mines the one with the Kong Hong street map and a copy of "quotations from chris patten" in the pocket