Unveiled on Monday, the two feet wide block of weathered rock looks not unlike any piece of roughly-hewn limestone except this is one of two kidney stones removed from Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott over the Christmas holidays. The stone now has pride of place outside parliament and will form a permanent memorial by the country’s bloggers who missed the event due to too much pudding over the festive season.

Arthur Lumpwick, Director of the Blogging Institute, said that the monument would serve as a warning for future generations of bloggers to always keep their blogs active. ‘We never know when a story will come along deserving the full powers of our scorn and ridicule,’ he said as he revealed the plaque. ‘Many jokes now don’t exist because we weren’t paying full attention. The world of UK blogs is worse off for our having missed one of the most perfect opportunities to scoff.’

A meme dedicated to the kidney stones will be started at a later date with the proceeds going towards having the other stone broken up and made into pairs of cuff links for every UK blogger.

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