Rubes of the World - Update

A quick visit to our celebrated Rubes in the cultural backwater of Northern Ireland. This time we go to Larne, a little known bastion of Olympic standard Rubism cowering on the beautiful East Antrim coast. Larne finds itself on the rube-scope having rescinded its welcome to the special Olympics team from Iraq due to public outrage. Seen here in the worst photograph on the net, is one of the offending signs. Iraq is of course now home to many new special Olympians thanks to the Bush and Blair axis, and rumour has it that the team will be sponsored at the next games by Lockheed Martin. It is worth mentioning that the mayor of Larne, Bobby McKee, is in fact himself a wheelchair user, the IRA having blown off his legs several years back.

Somewhere in this depressing mess there is irony, I invite my fellow Rube Watchers to dig into the rubble with me as it may not be too late to resuscitate it.

Here's a little light relief on the subject from The Portadown News.