The original pitch meeting for the Big Dig

By at 6:49 am Wednesday, Mar 6

Meg posted a little blurb about the Big Dig -- Boston's interminable, distruptive, over-budget and behind-schedule largest-earthworks-project-in-human-history -- that reminded me of a funny bit John Henson and I came up with in the back of a cab in Boston a couple years ago, about the original pitch meeting for the Big Dig:
Aye, M'Lud Mayor, yon Big Dig shall be completed in no more than six months, cost no more than fifty guineas, and shall cause the death of no more than 300 Irishmen.
Meg affirmed that people other than John and me find this funny, so I'm posting it here. Link Discuss

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