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One day after Mayor Rob Ford called for the firing of a city worker and the outsourcing of recreation workers after a picture was circulated of a city employee allegedly sleeping on the job, the mayor was the subject of his own viral photo, showing him with his eyes closed during a marathon meeting two years ago.

The top photo on the Reddit Toronto page Thursday morning depicts the mayor leaning back on his chair, his hands clasped on his stomach and his face relaxed, with his eyelids shut.

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Ford flatly denied he was sleeping in the photo.

“I’m not sleeping,” Ford said during a rare scrum with reporters Thursday afternoon. “You know what this is ridiculous. This is during the 24-hour meeting when deputants are every three minutes. It is so farfetched it is not even funny.”

After seeing the picture, Ford dismissed it.

“Oh buddy, that’s not how I sleep,” he said, according to reports.

The photo, posted to a “social-democratic” blog two years ago, was apparently taken during a 22-hour meeting of the mayor’s executive committee from July 28 to 29, 2011. A Twitter posting of the picture is dated July 29.