NAIROBI (Reuters) - Monica Lewinsky, the former White House aide at the center of a sex scandal with U.S. President Bill Clinton, has been spotted on the back of a bus in Kenya.
Kenya's public transport operators traditionally paint their vehicles with slogans and pictures reflecting popular news events, and a ``Monica Lewinsky'' bus is now plying a route from Nairobi to Eldoret in Rift Valley Province.
The bus bears the name ``Monica Lewinsky'' on the rear and has an even bigger sign saying ``Bill's gal'' on the mud flaps.
It also has a painting of a swimming costume-clad Lewinsky pouting provocatively.
Bus operators in Kenya are quick to paint their vehicles to keep up with current thinking -- sometimes resorting to puns that would be considered tasteless elsewhere.
One bus named ``Lady Di'' was swiftly renamed ``Lady Die'' after the Princess of Wales was killed in a car crash in Paris last year.
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