*sigh*
I can hear it now...
"Geez, Bill, it's just a big, huge hole in the ground with another big, huge hole in the middle of it -- that was easy!"
Yeah, it's just a big, huge hole in the ground with another big, huge hole in the middle of it (and with some water in the middle of the big, huge hole in the middle of the big, huge hole, to be precise), but what makes it a Whatziss is what the big, huge hole is *for*.
Hint: Washington, DC, needs one. Badly.
I can hear it now...
"Geez, Bill, it's just a big, huge hole in the ground with another big, huge hole in the middle of it -- that was easy!"
Yeah, it's just a big, huge hole in the ground with another big, huge hole in the middle of it (and with some water in the middle of the big, huge hole in the middle of the big, huge hole, to be precise), but what makes it a Whatziss is what the big, huge hole is *for*.
Hint: Washington, DC, needs one. Badly.
A sump. A natural sump without a mechanical pump so as to provide a drain for water away from the surrounding area(s).
Buuuuuuuut -- no...
-a crowd of angry peasants with pitchforks and torches
-A Costco-sized clue
-Economics for Dummies
is it a cloaca, then?
Although I have not heard of any politicians suddenly seeing the light, so such a maneuver must not have occurred.
ML
I was thinking it was a hiding hole for the tank lurking in those weeds, but those in D.C. don't need that.
A sinkhole, aka, a natural obulette, which is the perfect place to put the majority of our government leaders.
This. Is. Iraq!
The water hole is *big* enough for a couple of elephants, but that's tangential to the *whyness* of the Whatziss as a *whole* hole...
This. Is. Iraq!
OK, ummm.... inefficient and counter-productive drive-thru car/camel wash?
Just need a guy in a toga to kick members of congress off the edge into the nearly bottomless pit...
it looks like a "Wadi is dis?", perhaps, but that no Whatziss.
Why does Washington need it? For the purposes of comparison. After all, in my neck of the woods, a common way to describe someone who seems to be, shall we say, a bit lacking in the intellectual gifts is to say that he "can't tell his @ss from a hole in the ground".
And that's why Washington needs this large, scenic hole. If they had it, maybe by way of comparison the could then tell their @ss from the hole in the ground and would acquire some level of intelligence that wouyld start to set our government back on the road to sanity and responsibility.
Hmmm....... we're going to need a bigger hole.
About the suggestion about the cranial rectal issue and Government, *never gonna happen!* I mean in none of our lifetimes, actually it will never happen.
It kinda reminds me of an incident that happened last month. This young guy, in his 30's, had a bad attitude and was mouthing off. All of a sudden, he realizes where he's at, in the middle of bunch of "Old School Military Vets." In the group were mostly Cold War or Viet Nam era, but actually served everywhere, doing everything.
The young guy says, "Don't worry about me, I've just got a wild hair up my butt." An Old Navy Master Chief says, "Is he bragging or complaining? Grumpy, how long has it been since you felt a hair like it?" I looked up and then said, "I've known you for over 40 year and don't remember it during that time." With a smirk on his face, the Old Master Chief says, "I guess he's bragging."