Reply #73: "A Lord decides to play a joke

[CJCRANE]

on a sleeping drunk named Christopher Sly. Dressed as a lord and slipped into a fine bed, Sly is told when he awakes that he is a great lord who has lost his memory, and his ale-house rambles were but a dream."

(In the introdiction of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taming_of_the_Shrew).

Shrub reminds me of Christopher Sly, an idiot put in a position of power who, once there, can't be removed.