[NathanJT]

When you've finished wiping the coffee off your keyboard, here's the joke:

At last Gordon Brown decided to throw the towel in and resign. His cabinet colleagues decided it would be a worthy gesture to name a railway locomotive after him. So a civil servant was dispatched from Whitehall to the National Railway Museum in York, to investigate the possibilities.

"We have a number of locomotives at the NRM without names," the curator told the civil servant, "But they’re mostly freight locomotives."
"Oh dear, that's not very fitting for a former prime minister, how about that big green one, over there?" The official said, pointing to no.4472.
"That´s already got a name" said the curator. "It´s called `Flying Scotsman´."
"Oh, couldn't it be renamed?" asked the official. "This is a national museum after all, funded by the taxpayer."

"I suppose it could be considered," was the answer. "After all, the LNER renamed a number of their locomotives after directors of the company and even renamed one of them Dwight D Eisenhower."

"So that´s settled then. Let's look at renaming 4472. But how much will it cost? We can´t spend too much, given the recession."
Well, said the consultant, "We could just paint out the `F´."

[Geoffo]

Took me a second for the penny to drop..

lying Scotsman