What's That You Say?
It's been a little while, but we decided to restart What's That You Say?, our roundup of the best, funniest, and most interesting comments for the previous week. It's also a good chance for those of you who haven't signed up for our profile system to check out how useful they can be -- click through the names of any registered commenter mentioned here to see what else that person has been saying lately.
Read on for vacant property complaints, naming the new baseball stadium, non sequiturs, and more.
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The rooftop extensions article in Tuesday's morning roundup spurred a number of comments, but we especially liked the one by This Ignoramus:
Rooftop extensions are eyesores because they're gross. It's like wearing a hat made of someone else's head.
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Responding to Ezra Klein's ill-conceived complaints about a lack of things for young white people to do in D.C., a guest made us laugh by referencing the Dave Chappelle Show beatnik sketch:
White people recreate like THIS, but black people recreate like THAT!
This dude needs to hang out with Bill O'Reilly. The two of them can spend hours being astonished at how black people behave.
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Monkeyrotica makes a good point in Ryan's post about the minibike police shooting:
Fenty wouldn't be getting it from both ends had he used the time-honored response, "I feel that it's inappropriate to comment on a pending investigation." All he's succeeded in doing is piss off the cops and the neighbors...
Photo by Tracy Lee
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Mike Licht has a name for the Nats stadium that we've been itching to see:
How can the park be on schedule? They haven't even sold the naming rights yet. I look forward to attending that first game at Preparation H Park.
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sophiagrrl is angry about vacant properties, something many of us have been annoyed over:
Perhaps this will be enough incentive to get DC to update the books. I live next to an obviously vacant property that they still haven't added to the rolls. It's frustrating to think that it's been there, empty and rotting, for a decade and they've been paying resident taxes. Infuriating!
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mymidgetfriend made us laugh out loud about Gus the cat's passing:
I Can Has Hevun?
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And the monkeyrotica we remember returns for the Found magazine post. Grossly hilarious:
I can't praise Dirty Found too highly. They've gotten this monkey through many a lonely night when the DVD player was on the fritz. Really takes me back to those preteen years, chiseling apart the organically starched pages of older brother's copies of Oui and Swank. Every page is rimmed with images of sadness and mystery, like finding a used condom with a penis still in it. Dirty Found gets four shrieks on the monkeyrotica priapic ennui scale.
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Some other comment threads with a lot of good responses are the College Park Wawa post, the Poplar Point development/MLS stadium post, the Capitol Hill lunch post, and the organic grocery post — will organic stores be the next Starbucks? Will they oversaturate the market?
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And finally, our favorite nearly-non-sequiturs: Deep in the political blogs post:
My parents did the nasty and I was born here. Yay!
and Everett in the raw milk post:
Milk made me gay!!!!! ZOMG!
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