Tuesday, May 22, 2007

[cleese rubbished] justice done

Sheep have long memories:
Palmerston North, which was rubbished by British comedian John Cleese as the "suicide capital of New Zealand", has rubbished him back, naming a city council compost dump in his honour, a newspaper reported today. "Mt Cleese" reads the sign posted on the rubbish tip at suburban Awapuni, which is being turned into a compost dump, the North Island city's Evening Standard reported.

Cleese dubbed it one of the world's most boring cities when he toured New Zealand in November 2005. At the time, comedian John Clarke suggested the local dump be renamed the "John Cleese Memorial Tip - All manner of crap happily recycled".

Contractor Roy Harding, who erected the sign, told the paper: "It's just to get back at him. Most people seem to be quite happy about it".

Justice must not just be done - it must be seen to be done.

Inflicted on you by on

4 comments:

  1. BagTuesday 22 May 2007 at 13:06:00 GMT+1

    I'm sure John Cleese would find it funny that these people are being screwed financially by the same counciland and as a nice touch he gets to participate.

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  2. CrushedTuesday 22 May 2007 at 13:07:00 GMT+1

    Cleese is one of those people who can write and perform good comedy, but isn't very good at the humour outside that.

    Look at the damage he did Sainsbury's

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  3. RuthieTuesday 22 May 2007 at 18:05:00 GMT+1

    This will mean nothing to most of you, but my best friend's profile picture on Facebook is that exact picture of Cleese.

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  4. Welshcakes LimoncelloTuesday 22 May 2007 at 21:22:00 GMT+1

    Nice irony. I hope Cleese sees the humour.

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