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Californians in general and San Franciscans in particular love them some Propositions: loony bits of legislation dreamed up by hippies, supported by the signatures of thousands of people who just wanted that smelly weirdo on BART with the clipboard to stop jabbering at them, and voted into being by millions of citizens without the time or patience to wade through a 200-page “voter guide” before they head off to the polls. Propositions, in other words, are the most awful political invention since Democracy. Except Proposition R, San Franciscans’ comical attempt to name a local sewage treatment plant after George W. Bush.
Every news source on the planet already wrote about this thing, twice, in July when Prop R made it onto the ballot. But here is the new news: For a limited time only, people finally get to vote on this thing! And Prop R supporters will have a big victory party on Tuesday night, culminating in a “bar crawl around the Tenderloin,” which means “two shots of tequila and a stab in the neck from a transsexual hooker in a pink wig.”
Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco]
This is excellent.
Ah, if only I was a San Francisco resident.
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I think I’ll spend my night at the William J. Clinton Memorial Strip Club, thanks.
If it passes I hope they at least do him the honor of sending him a special engraved shovel full of George W sewage.
This is an insult to turds.
Hey, you can punch a Cambodian kid in the face at the Henry Kissinger Youth Hostel and Napalmeria.
The proposition would have been easier to remember if it were Proposition H.
Giant Robot: Thanks for sticking up for turd rights.
Shrub should do what Halle Berry did, when she won a Razzie award for worst actress (Catwoman) and actually showed up to the awards show to tearfully accept and give a speech sarcastically thanking all the people that made the movie tank.
Dubya should show up to cut the ribbon at the unveiling ceremony, give a speech, give a thumbs up and a wink and say “And remember: you voted for me, suckers! Dubya OUT!” and everyone will go “Aww, haha, what a lovable little scamp”
I think I’m going to name my toilet the G.W. Bush memorial crapper.
Next time I eat at a Taco Bell in San Fran, I’ll gladly make a donation towards his sewage plant from my hotel washroom
So this sewage plant works in reverse?
George W. Bush is in the tank. The septic tank.
Next, he can relive his college days and become a cheerleader for the Detroit Lions.
JamesMichaelCurley: Genius! How this was missed I don’t know. Heads will roll.
Don’t forget prop 8. Teh gays caint marrys!
JamesMichaelCurley:
Heh!
Wait - if Johnboy loses, does this mean they won’t build the McCain Hanoi Hilton Memorial? ‘Cause I was so looking forward to the FIVE AND A HALF YEAR tour…
I really can’t vote on anything sewage related until I know Joe The Plumber’s stance.
JamesMichaelCurley: OMFG, my eyeballs nearly popped out of my head trying not to laugh (I’m at work).
Wonketteers, I expect a report today on that little shit that got zapped trying to steal a yard sign. That was comic gold.
WagTehGod: It’s a wide stance.
Sara, the same thing almost happened to me last time I went drinking in the Tenderloin. I woke up with a black eye and a bloody asshole.
WagTehGod: wide.
I would think real hard before I voted yes on this. In two years, SF’s sewage plant will destroy the TransAmerica tower, invade Nevada and blow shit all over Oakland.
Anything “sewage” related to Bush is prohibited due to copyright law on his forthcoming memoirs.
So, what is it, California? Letters or numbers? Make up your fucking mind.
gurukalehuru: actually, state props are numbers, local props are lettered. and sara, if their lucky, the hookers will be legal by then (prop K)!
This story must be reported on daily, as I rely on such in order to get my ancient commie bowels moving every morning. Do Not Stop!
Tommy Says Soooo: Correct. Working memoir title: “If You Think That Was Shit, Read This.”
This would not be San Francisco were there not at least one mildly insane local proposition on the ballot. And while I voted for that cop ventriloquist to be allowed to carry around his doll while on duty, I will not be voting “yes” on this one. I want to hear George W. Bush’s name 24/7 up until Nov. 4, but after that, I never want to hear it or see it again, not even on the side of a tank of raw sewage.
If this passes, I hope it starts a motion to name a DC area sewage plant after Ronald Reagan, so we can finally take his name off the fucking airport.
I think it would be great if it caught on and every city in America named their shit processors after Bush. I think it would even go over in the red states, like Texas, where they would probably mistake it for a tribute.
What are Shorts thoughts on this as a resident of sodomite city? Can he liveblog as he punches the ballot? If this passes, maybe I’ll finally get back up to Frisco if only to take pictures of W’s Monument.
It’s nice to know that on election day that in addition to banning or allowing gay marriage, voters can also vote to enact a citywide doody joke. Someone find me a flag so I can salute it.
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W: the poop stops here (except it doesn’t quite).
Close the plant and just truck the crap, so to speak, to the Crawford ranchero.
NoWireHangers: “Can he liveblog as he punches the ballot?”
Now that is progress…wi-fi in bath houses.
Bush hasn’t set foot in San Francisco during his entire eight years in office - the pussy.
As a San Franciscan I eagerly look forward to contributing to his memorial after the election.
Short pointless comment!
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The Pumpernickel: I understand ACORN could make that happen for a modest fee.
gurukalehuru: Numbers for the statewide propositions; letters for the local ones. It’s awful. Everybody tries to stake out a slice of the state’s budget for his own personal fetish, like childens’ hospitals or more cops or school building maintenance. Or worse yet, they make the prop sound like it’s for some worthy purpose, but bury fat gobbets of pork deep in the fine print. No on 3! Yes on A! Abstain on 82!
dmac: Snarky reply to same!
WadISay: You totally just made my day. I’m gonna be laughing about that forever.
MY CITY FUCKING KICKS YOUR CITY’S ASS.
The end.
Today, we are all poop factories.
Excuse me, I live in the Tenderloin and I really need to say something here, because this is bothering me.
Our tranny hookers wear BLOND wigs, TYVM. Pink wigs are for the shrooming hippie kids on Haight who think it’s still 1968.
spryte: You need to go to Howard Street on Friday night. Most of the women in SOMA are not actually club rats, but high-priced hookers with MANY wig colors. Problem solved.
shortsshortsshorts: FTW
culminating in a “bar crawl around the Tenderloin,” which means “two shots of tequila and a stab in the neck from a transsexual hooker in a pink wig.”
How’d you know?? That’s something we usually don’t tell people from out of town (for teh lulz).
spryte: excuse me, but I used to be a hippie on Haight Street in 1968 and we never wore pink wigs.
Would one of you other San Franciscans kindly let me know where to find a decent party with a decent TV on Tuesday night (or, if McPalin steals the thing, an indecent riot)? My TV is dead, even without my getting a converter box. Many thanks!
One Yield Regular: Check the post from Wednesday. That’s where Im going. BAR. Food. Tee Vee. Boo ya.
Wouldn’t ‘No on R’ make a better statement? They should have worded the proposition differently so that they can kill two birds with one turd.
Or two turds with one bird? I forget.
shortsshortsshorts: Thanks. My patriotic costume will be me, wearing a big smile and carrying a bottle of “Syrah, Palin” (and with all 37 fingers and toes crossed until then).