The "picture" that came to mind when I was originally posting this was of the big guy sitting in front of a computer reading about himself, and behind that, on the wall, a whole lot of gauges and levers and buttons, which is his job to monitor.
I've never been inside a sewer plant--or even a clean-water plant, for that matter--but I'm sort of assuming they boil the sewage in huge cauldrons to remove contaminants before they release the sewage to wherever it's being sent. And hence all the temperature- and pressure-gauges.
That's exactly the picture I have in my mind of the DUmp's master control suite.
A huge wall of dials and gauges and buttons and levers.
DUmmies Lord Marblehead and the enigmatic Elad sitting before it in high-back swivel chairs, carefully monitoring the pressures and temperatures and levels of the sewage boiling in giant cauldrons in the next room.
As each huge batch of bubbling, boiling sewage reaches a critical point, a lever is pulled to release it onto the innertubes, and a new DUmp thread is born.
Once in a while, the dimwitted Marblehead, who has never really caught on to the job, will pull a lever the wrong direction, and great steaming gobs of hot sewage splash all over the floor at DUmp central control.
That's how we got the Andyscam.
Skimmer sits in a small lighted room high above the control room, keeping an eye on his two flunkies and counting huge piles of government DUmmybucks.
