I'd be cautious about spoofing when my own proposal is a "big-dig"

Nickels tries satire to drum up interest in waterfront tunnel

Mayor Greg Nickels, in a speech Wednesday touting the tunnel to the Rotary Club of Seattle, played a two-minute video spoofing the viaduct controversy by quoting an imaginary "Committee to Save Big Ugly Things," whose spokesman uttered tongue-in-cheek warnings about removing the viaduct from the waterfront.

(video link at newsstory)

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And judging from that headline — "Nickels tries satire to drum up interest in waterfront tunnel" — the thinking at the P-I must be that the tunnel is a dead duck.