Inadvertent C-SPAN Humor: 'House Fishing Downstream'

Inadvertent C-SPAN Humor: ‘House Fishing Downstream’

By Jason Dick

Posted May 21, 2013 at 4:12pm

Sometimes, C-SPAN can just be inadvertently funny, and we don’t even know why.

Take, for example, something we spotted across our office Tuesday as the House was grinding out legislation under suspension of the rules: “U.S. House | Fishing Downstream From Certain Dams.”

This (Jason Dick/CQ Roll Call) — This was funny to us, for some reason. (Jason Dick/CQ Roll Call)

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