Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, call your office, please.

North Korea said on Thursday that it would place the body of Kim Jong-il on permanent display in a Pyongyang mausoleum and install his statues, portraits and memorial towers across the country.

Oh, wait, it looks like you’ve already called in:

Until Thursday, North Korea had not clarified what it would do with the body, although news reports in Russia and South Korea have said that a team of Russian specialists in charge of maintaining Lenin’s embalmed body was flown to Pyongyang, the North’s capital.

I wonder how you get a job as a Lenin maintainer. Is there an academic course of study you can follow? Is it a two-year or four-year program?

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5 Responses to “Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, call your office, please.”

  1. Glen says:
    January 13, 2012 at 1:29 pm

    I’m surprised this kind of idea was never floated for Reagan given the adoration he receives here.

  2. stainles says:
    January 13, 2012 at 1:49 pm

    “Here” on this blog, or “here” as in the greater DC statistical metropolitan area?

    Because if I was going to suggest that kind of treatment for a politician, it would have been Nixon, for the sheer creep factor.

  3. Glen says:
    January 16, 2012 at 11:09 am

    Here as in the good old’ US of A. At one time there was a group on a mission to get things named after Reafan in every state. I’m still mad at them for appending his name to Washington National Airport–I mean, it was already named for a perfectly goo president.

  4. Glen says:
    January 16, 2012 at 11:10 am

    Pardon the typos. I should reread before posting from the iPad.

  5. stainles says:
    January 16, 2012 at 11:21 am

    There’s something charming about “perfectly goo president”, though.