Friday, March 22, 2013

I'm in the Wrong Business Part 617: Bucket of Warm Piss Edition

....[the Vice-presidency is] "not worth a bucket of warm piss."
-John Nance Garner, 32nd Vice-president of the United States

The line is often quoted as "a bucket of warm spit" but that is almost assuredly wrong and is definitely so in the instant case.
From FedBizOps:

VPOTUS January / February 2013 - Hotel in Paris
:
Award Notice 
:
January 28, 2013 
:
SFR63013D0004 
:
585000.50 
:
HOTEL INTERCONTINENTAL PARIS LE GRAND 
:
2 RUE SCRIBE
PARIS, 75009
France 
:
Added: Feb 14, 2013 8:58 am
:
2 avenue Gabriel
75382 Paris Cedex 08
Paris, Non-U.S.
France
:
Dominique Mazier
Phone: 0033143122487
Fax: 0033142661194
Hmmm...$585,000.50 for a night at The Intercontinental.
Even if the suite had one hundred bedrooms that's probably more than the going rate for a bucket of....
(do click the Intercontinental link, it's pretty funny)