White House of the Rising Sun

Jesse Walker | July 7, 2003

New Zealand has just legalized brothels, one of which has decided to call itself the White House and advertise "with a logo almost identical to the US presidential seal, showing an American bald eagle with a ribbon in its mouth, holding the arrows of war and an olive branch." According to the Sidney Morning Herald, this has prompted a complaint from the American embassy. I don't see why: It's just named after the porn site whitehouse.com, right?

Comments

|7.7.03 @ 1:05AM|#

do they have any fat girls who give head in replicas of the oval office?

Hal E.|7.7.03 @ 1:39AM|#

Reminds me of that old Woody Allen joke about dating a woman who worked for Eisenhower: "It was ironic, because I was trying to do to her what Eisenhower was doing to the country."

|7.7.03 @ 5:08AM|#

New Zealand legalizes brothels, Canada legalizes gay marriage, Britain decriminalizes pot, with Canada perhaps soon to follow...and America gets the Patriot Act, the RAVE Act, and possibly a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

Welcome to the Land of the Free, baby.

|7.7.03 @ 9:06AM|#

Thanks (for nothing) Bill Clinton!

1976 leftover|7.7.03 @ 9:10AM|#

Guy asks gal in a bar, "Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?"

Gal says, "Well, for that kind of money, I suppose I would."

"OK," says the guy, "How about for this shiny new quarter?"

The gal, outraged, demands, "What the hell do you think I am?"

"Well, we've already established that," the guy replies. "Now we're just haggling over the price."

Mark S.|7.7.03 @ 10:12AM|#

"New Zealand legalizes brothels, Canada legalizes gay marriage, Britain decriminalizes pot, with Canada perhaps soon to follow...and America gets the Patriot Act, the RAVE Act, and possibly a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

Welcome to the Land of the Free, baby."

Yeah I agree, but sadly you can't buy a decent handgun in any of these countries, so we all still have a long way to go.

|7.7.03 @ 10:18AM|#

Why, Mark? You want to shoot the lot?

Croesus|7.7.03 @ 12:54PM|#

Well, you can't TM a seal, flag, etc. of a government (at least in the US), so I think "tough shit" ought to be the response. :)

A. Fleischer|7.8.03 @ 2:30AM|#

There is a house in New Zealand,
They call it the Rising Fun
It's been a-wooin' many a fiend
And Georgie knows he ain't one.

|7.8.03 @ 4:28AM|#

We have lower taxes.

browne|7.8.03 @ 6:04AM|#

But you won't be holding that title for long, New Zealander! Keep a close watch on such developments.

Good news (for the U.S.) is on the horizon.