San Francisco to offset city budget deficit by imposing tax on banging a gong and/or getting it on

[Amerigo Vespucci]

CNN San Francisco - Mayor Gavin Newsom announced a novel...and so far, highly unpopular...proposal for shrinking the city's budget deficit. Each time a San Francisco resident bangs a gong and / or gets it on, they will pay a $2 tax.

Newsom said that the idea came to him while driving across the Dumbarton Bridge one August afternoon. "I had the top down, it was TOTALLY bitchin'...and right after they played "Dragon Attack" by Queen...OMFG, you NEVER hear THAT one on the radio...they played "Bang A Gong (Get It On)" by The Power Station. I know it's a T-Rex song, but Robert Palmer and those Duran Duran guys REALLY rock the house, really bring that mutha OUT. So I'm driving across the bridge and thinking there must be a LOT of people in my city banging the gong on a daily basis, and they're probably even gettin' it on WHILE they're bangin' it, so why not make a little cheddar for the city by the bay...OH! Journey, "Lights!" See how I did that?"

When asked for his response to the Mayor's plan, Governor Arnold Shwarzenegger said "I think he's got a fuckin' screw loose or something."

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[KamaAina]

1. Goddamn racist pig!

Does he know where 90 percent of the gongs in The City are banged? CHINATOWN, that's where!! :grr: :banghead:

:sarcasm:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. As long as they aren't getting it on while banging their gongs, maybe it will all even out...

...but if they are, well...I think we know which segment of San Francisco is going to balance the budget.

:rofl:

:toast:

[KamaAina]

5. Which one?

The Castro? North Beach? The "Bermuda Triangle" on Union (so called because if you go there, you disappear overnight :-) )? :shrug:

[KamaAina]

2. dupe

self-delete

[Bennyboy]

4. OMFG! I have a friend known as "The Gong Guy"!!!!!

Big trouble. He has ten differing sized gongs, some singing bowls (are they exempt?) and does gong thearapy. Really incredible