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British comedy super-hero John Cleese angered residents of Palmerston North, New Zealand last year when he referred to their town as “the suicide capital of New Zealand” during a show.

It seems the locals have a sense of humor about things. Recently, they’ve renamed the local Awapuni Landfill “Mt Cleese”. The unofficial moniker appears on a sign with the subtitle “All manner of crap happily recycled”.

Chris Pepper, the council’s waste manager, said that the sign wasn’t put up by officials and that the renaming wasn’t official. However, Pepper was quick to point out that the council was in no rush to have the sign removed.

He said, “Someone had the sign made up as a joke. Nobody has said, ‘pull it down’. People just smile.”