Stephen Colbert Gets Bridge Named After Him
Filed Under (Cool Stuff, Funny Videos, Steven_Colbert) by PreZ on 15-09-2006
A vote for a bridge in hungary for the name of a new bridge being constructed was held. The two top names for the bridge were Chuck Norris and Steven Colbert, needless to say Steven Colbert won and now has a bridge named after him in Hungary.
He didn’t actually get the bridge named after him since the Hungarian gov’t said that one of the qualifications for naming is that the person honored must be dead. He was invited to budapest by the ambassador though.
So does this mean that Chuck Norris is dead?
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