Calling Joe The Plumber! Calling Joe The Plumber!

A lot has been made by the press of John McCain's infatuation over Joe the Plumber and the 3,642 references in the debate and interviews and news stories after the debate.

But, to me, the true question of the measure of Joe's worth is how well he does his job.

Well, Ol' Smokes here has found two recent jobs that can prove Joe's mettle.

First of all, let's take the case of Joey Chestnut. The world's ranking gustatory champion recently took part in a pizza eating contest. He downed 45 slices in 10 minutes Sunday to win the first-ever Famous Famiglia World Pizza Eating Championship in New York's Times Square.

This is the guy who also ate 59 hot dogs in 10 minutes and 93 sliders in 8 minutes.

Hence the look on his face.



Meanwhile closer to Joe the Plumber's home, a restaurant has put together A 20 pound burger. That's 20 pounds with the condiments. Take a look at this monstrosity:I mean, that's a big burger - and the guy in the picture is 5'11" and only 180 pounds.

Well, it took Brad Sciullo four hours and 39 minutes (the time limit was 5 hours) to finish of the beast.

Why did he do it?

"I wanted to see if I could."

Well, this brings us back to Joe The Plumber.

A Plumber plumbs the depths, so to speak. it seems to me that if anyone is going to need the help of Joe the Plumber it is going to be these two guys.

If he can fix their problems, maybe then we should be interested in anything else he has to say.