Via Private Eye 1305:
“So, hail Sir Peter Bazalgette, knighted in the new year honors for ‘services to broadcasting’. These magnificent services include introducing the shows Deal or No Deal and Big Brother to an entranced British public. His great-great-grandfather Sir Joseph Bazalgette was knighted for having devised a system that removed sewage from every home in the capital. Sir Peter has been knighted, then, for devising a system that pumps it straight back in.”
“It’s a little-known fact that Peter’s grandfather Joseph designed the London sewer network. Some people have very unkindly suggested that Peter has simply taken what his granddad did literally and continued it metaphorically, delivering an unending torrent of human filth and waste into our homes.”
