gorden brown retires

[longdog2000 1]

At last Gordon Brown decided to throw the towel in and resign.

>

> His cabinet colleagues decided it would be a worthy gesture to name a

> railway locomotive after him. So a senior 'Sir Humphrey' went from

> Whitehall to the National Railway Museum at York, to investigate the

> possibilities.

>

> "They have a number of locomotives at the NRM without names," a

> specially-sought consultant told the top civil servant. "Mostly freight

> locomotives though."

>

> "Oh dear, that's not very fitting for a prime minister," said Sir

> Humphrey. "How about that big green one, over there?" he said, pointing

> to 4472.

>

> "That's already got a name" said the consultant. "It's called 'Flying

> Scotsman'."

>

> "Oh. Couldn't it be renamed?" asked Sir Humphrey. "This is a national

> museum after all, funded by the taxpayer."

>

> "I suppose it might be considered," said the consultant. "After all the

> LNER renamed a number of their locomotives after directors of the

> company, and even renamed one of them Dwight D Eisenhower."

>

> "That's excellent", said Sir Humphrey, "So that's settled then .. let's

> look at renaming 4472. But how much will it cost? We can't spend too

> much, given the expenses scandal!"

>

> Well, said the consultant, "We could always just paint out the 'F'."