What's That You Say?
It's that time again, the best comments of the previous week. It was a bountiful week, with World Bank protests, Metro employees chowing down, and new dog park regulations Read on, and register if you haven't!
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Everybody had something to say about D.C. switching to taxi meters.
shawndc:
I'm glad Fenty had the balls to stand up to the Taxi commission and move ahead with meters. Let's hope they can get it up and running without delay.
Naalex likes it too:
I'm giving my firstborn to Fenty for this.
While jeffrey is not so sure:
Excellent news! I'm looking forward to my first ride in a metered cab in five to ten years after the lawsuits are settled and the taxicab commission runs out of excuses to drag its feet. Even better, by then we'll be riding in flying rocket cars!
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After the jump, Tecmo Bowl, Congressional dress codes, stolen gas trucks, and more.
Photo by timkelley
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Talking about the Redskins' loss, jacobus made us laugh with an old-school Nintendo reference:
That end around sucks in Techmo Super Bowl too.
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On the piece about Hill dress codes, jennx disagrees with garch enemy.
>seriously though, bare legs don't belong at work,
>they just don't look professional.
Say wha?? If anything doesn't look professional it's putting fake leg color over your real leg color. Pantyhose is seriously gross, not to mention old school conservative in the not-good way.
There is nothing long with bare legs, on the Hill or otherwise.
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On Monday's Photo of the Day, VJ went where some of us were thinking:
Good thing there can no longer be anonymous guests to point out that the goose's neck and head look a little phallic.
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monkeyrotica had this to say about dog park locations:
I nominate Franklin Park and Mcpherson Square. Maybe a fenced-in dog park will discourage the panhandlers from using it as a public toilet.
Or they might just wise up and buy dog costumes.
and tigerflight made us laugh:
if more dog parks mean less dogs crapping in my front yard, then awesome.
only i know my crappy (literally) neighbor will never stop to stoop after her dogs chewbacca and brownie (not their real names)
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A post about the Moby Quotient had some good responses, but we particularly enjoyed the one by intangiblearts:
BUT once in a while, an act of (apparently) true subversion takes place... As when Volkswagen appropriated "Roman P" by Psychic TV for one of their TV spots a while back. That tune was already several years old, and known only to a handful of underground freaks like myself: Lyrics deal with Roman Polanski and the death of Sharon Tate at the bloody hands of Charlie's Angels... But it had a catchy chorus! And goes nicely with footage of a VW cruising around mountain passes somewhere...
Was this the work of a dark-humored deviant in the ad agency who just wanted to give a few of us PTV fans heart attacks?
...or was it something even MORE sinister? hm....
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jamie hits the panic button after reading about the stolen gas tanker:
Hasn't anyone ever seen The Road Warrior? This is the clearest sign yet of the apocalypse. Only thing left to do is stock up on ammunition and get lasik.
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tlb is not so sure about the new tactic to get press for D.C. voting rights:
Yes, hippo costumes are a good way to be taken seriously.
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Reid zings political cartoonist Pat Oliphant:
"Pulitzer Prize-winner Pat Oliphant's political cartoons lampooning Bush are the highlight of the new collection, Leadership. He'll be at Politics and Prose to discuss his particular type of "confrontational art." 7 p.m."
He's scheduled to shoot fish in a barrel at 7:30, and at 8:00 he'll hit the side of a barn.
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There's too much good stuff on the Metro eating post to pick a favorite!
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And favorite username and avatar: EmoEmu.