Mayor Jim Schmitt to change name of all Green Bay toilets to 'Favres'
Nick Reilly
Issue date: 11/5/09 Section: Off the Wall
After last Sunday's Packer game, where the Packers were handed a second loss by Brett Favre and the Vikings, Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt announced Nov. 2 that all of the toilets in all public restrooms in Green Bay are to be referred to as "Favres" for the remainder of the football season.
This new provision will cost taxpayers around $500,000 to replace all of the public restrooms signs, and another $300,000 for a series of public ad campaign to popularize the new nomenclature.
"I hope this will show definitively our stance on the subject of who Green Bay is standing behind," Schmitt said. "From now on, the phrase 'You've been Favred' will conjure up the same feelings as those experienced by Packers fans on game day."
This decision comes shortly after Schmitt permanently changed the name of Minnesota Avenue to Aaron Rodgers Way, and just hours after breaking ground on Ted Thompson's Cinna-Bun and Funnel Cake Boutique.
While this new provision is seen by many a firm display of support for the new Packers dynasty, many still see this as a petty display of hurt feelings.
"I think we just have to move on," Adam Hendrix, junior political science major said. "This makes us look like petty, childish fools. We should just burn down Brett Favre's Steakhouse, blame it on his ego and be done with it."
The name change is expected to take place on campus sometime this month, replacing the old euphemism for toilet in UWGB, GAC Lab.
The Favres will operate like the old restrooms, except that they will no longer have toilet paper, but use bidets.
On campus men's bathroom on the second floor of the University Union will no longer have a glory hole, you have to go to Studio Arts for that.
This new provision will cost taxpayers around $500,000 to replace all of the public restrooms signs, and another $300,000 for a series of public ad campaign to popularize the new nomenclature.
"I hope this will show definitively our stance on the subject of who Green Bay is standing behind," Schmitt said. "From now on, the phrase 'You've been Favred' will conjure up the same feelings as those experienced by Packers fans on game day."
This decision comes shortly after Schmitt permanently changed the name of Minnesota Avenue to Aaron Rodgers Way, and just hours after breaking ground on Ted Thompson's Cinna-Bun and Funnel Cake Boutique.
While this new provision is seen by many a firm display of support for the new Packers dynasty, many still see this as a petty display of hurt feelings.
"I think we just have to move on," Adam Hendrix, junior political science major said. "This makes us look like petty, childish fools. We should just burn down Brett Favre's Steakhouse, blame it on his ego and be done with it."
The name change is expected to take place on campus sometime this month, replacing the old euphemism for toilet in UWGB, GAC Lab.
The Favres will operate like the old restrooms, except that they will no longer have toilet paper, but use bidets.
On campus men's bathroom on the second floor of the University Union will no longer have a glory hole, you have to go to Studio Arts for that.
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Chris Bowers
posted 11/13/09 @ 12:39 AM CST
Wow. What a great thing to spend $800,000 on during these rich times. Talk about being childish, he may has well just start referring to Favre as a poopy-head. (Continued…)
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