Presidential Monuments
Ms X is discussing the FDR memorial.
me, I’d like to memorialize FDR- and all the presidents that followed- by putting a statue of him digging in the bottom of a hole that symbolizes his debt. Each president will have a plateau a bit deeper, each president in bronze wielding a shovel. By the time you get to wingnuthead, the hole will be pretty damned deep.
Here’s the best part: I want the “monument” to be in the middle of the walkway through a dimly lit tunnel that leads to the offices of all Washington bureaucrats. No handrail.
Eventually we might have to cap it off and reconstruct it in a new location, like the Congressional cafeteria.
My monument will be more useful.
You’re talking about an upsidown Washington monument!
Hey! Go easy on the Congressional Cafeteria! They used to have a fine bowl of Senate Bean Soup on the menu for 35 cents, back when I worked as a Western Union telegraph messenger on the Hill.
Heh-heh! How many can even REMEMBER Western Union telegrams without resort to an Internet history? I carried and delivered them, hundreds every day.
Dog, pitiably, the telegram has gone the way of 35 cent soup.
Best scale the hole logarithmically, or even the best deep hole oil well drilling equipment won’t get us far enough down to symbolise the hole we’re in now…
You mean it really *does* go all the way to China? Wow. Suddenly, it’s all making sense.