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iandhr

(6,852 posts)
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 11:29 PM Oct 2013

Heroic Broken Sewage Pipe Floods Congress With Human Waste

WASHINGTON—Calling the busted cylinder a national hero, sources confirmed Wednesday that a sewer pipe in the U.S. Capitol building valiantly burst open, pouring more than 1.5 million gallons of raw sewage into Congress and flooding the Senate and House of Representatives with human excrement, sludge, and wastewater. “Someone or something had to step up and fight for the American people, and when I heard that explosion and then saw congressman after congressman get swept up by a massive wave of feces and urine, I knew that sewage pipe had done something truly brave and extraordinary,” said one congressional source, adding the pipe’s heroics were evident from the outset when the initial explosion splattered Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) with wadded-up toilet paper, sanitary napkins, vomit, and cholera-containing pathogens. “Harry Reid must have guzzled down at least three thermosfuls of this brownish slop, and John Boehner was covered in human offal. Every Tea Party Republican, including Michele Bachmann and Steve King, had so much fecal matter on them that all you could see were the parts of their eyes where they wiped it away. They were all in one corner throwing up and dry heaving because of how putrid the smell was. This cracked sewage pipe deserves the Medal of Honor.” At press time, nobody was trying to fix the pipe.

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Heroic Broken Sewage Pipe Floods Congress With Human Waste (Original Post) iandhr Oct 2013 OP
Thanks Obama Marie Marie Oct 2013 #1
had my hopes up for a minute there! niyad Oct 2013 #2
"At press time, nobody was trying to fix the pipe." BlueJazz Oct 2013 #3
Lock them in. Nobody gets out. Skeeter Barnes Oct 2013 #4
Update: It is fixed RobertEarl Oct 2013 #5
 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
5. Update: It is fixed
Sun Oct 20, 2013, 01:26 AM
Oct 2013

Only cost 24 billion.

Maybe that is why Einstein is said to have claimed that he wished he'd been a plumber instead of helping create nuclear power?

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