Happy Memorial Day from What's That You Say? headquarters - we hope you're enjoying whatever it is today that's not working. But of course, we're still here, providing the most interesting of your contributions to the world of DCist.

On Wednesday, we brought you the story of Noah Meyerson, whose persistence is just adding to a year of hell at the Office of Tax and Revenue - this time the revelation that the agency erroneously didn't charge property tax to about 300 homeowners in the District. Suffice it to say that you homeowners who thought that the District was just, you know, giving you a break, well, now you know who to blame - or take petty revenges on. In this week's Comment of the Week, we're sure Mr. Meyerson really appreciates the heads-up, stmove:

Good job printing his name guys: Now he will be stalked all over the hill by angry Cap Hill condo owners who will drive their Volvo V50s really slow behind him and leave yellow lab poop on his doorstep.

Run tax-man super hero! Run!

After the jump, the dollar just doesn't go as far as it once did - now, $200,000 only buys you a flash drive and the opportunity to apply for a diploma.

photo by andertho.

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Just because we can't get enough: here's another opportunity for you to rail on cab drivers' "inability" to install meters by the June 1st deadline.

Also in the "because we know you get fired up" category: a thread on parking and driving in Adams Morgan that usurped the massive 100-comment barrier. Additionally, you added 65 comments to a debate on church parking around Logan Circle.

Prolific, people!

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GW gave away flash drives to all their outgoing grads last week, but honk and I will def get in your cab knows that nothing's ever free:

Free?? G-Dub makes undergrads pay a $100 fee to "apply" for graduation.

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Our condolences to Senator Kennedy and his family were echoed by many of you.

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cminus explains how Interim Attorney General Peter Nickles' proposal for a ramped-up dress code for the D.C. Attorney General's office is a bad idea:

It's one thing -- and probably a good one -- to require regular weekly reports from government lawyers, and it's at least defensible to introduce timecards. But the dress code? That's silly. At a time when private law firms are moving to allow "business casual" attire throughout the week, instituting a mandatory all-hours suit requirement seems like it'll make it harder, not easier, to get the "strong, young, able stars" Nickles wants.

(Me, I'd rather have a lawyer wearing jeans and a sweater who was tops in his class at Harvard than a lawyer who always makes sure to wear a really nice suit but had trouble passing his classes at some low-fourth-tier JD mill like Florida Coastal or North Carolina Central or Regent or Arkansas-Little Rock.)

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You're not impressed with the District's quarter choices, and skeptical of the fact that input's being solicited. Can we blame you? (Hmm, no.)

Granted, you guys weren't too pleased about the choice not being Duke Ellington, either.

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fatkidspecial doesn't much care for the Lerner family's business ethics:

The Lerners are fucking miserable. Snyder is a tool, but at least he plays to win and loves the game.... The Lerners saw buying the team purely as an opportunity to make money. With the passion for baseball like an Applebee's franchisee's passion for food, it's no wonder the team sucks.

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The final question in this year's National Geography Bee was "The urban area of Cochabamba has been in the news in recent years due to protests over the privatization of the municipal water supply and regional autonomy issues. Cochabamba is the third largest conurbation in what country?" But really, we're more proud of it's author, IMGoph:

ok, i have to brag here....who wrote the final question for this year's bee???

i.am.proud. it was fun.

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So, are you ashamed of the National Mall? Del. Norton says you should be, so start sulking. Now.

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alewis, we're kind of in agreement that the jaywalking laws and the traffic laws are a bit out of balance:

I have to say that most of the time the enforcement of jaywalking laws is rather ridiculous. They should allow for common sense. Some drunk stumbling across U Street during rush hour? Sure, enforcing jaywalking laws makes sense there.

But I'll be damned if I'm going to stand on a street corner when there are no cars coming because an illuminated hand says not to.

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How about another episode of The Wonderful World of Monkeyrotica?

This week's episode: rats, the war on them, and our options to prevent their takeover:

Is no rat! Is filligree Siberian hamster!

As for the rats, who can we negotiate an armistice with? Sue for peace and let them have Potomac. William Bennett lives there. He can be their nominal leader until they elect a rat council, lobby for voting representation, and are admitted as the 51st State. It's a cinch that will happen before DC gets voting rights because, y'know, the State of Rat-omic never elected Marion Barry.

But don't let us mislead you, many of you had solutions for the Tenleytown rat problem.

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Er, alright, Politburo. We could probably put that idea in the "maybe" pile.

Percentages should just be banned, as no one knows how to use them correctly.

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DC1974 shares that the closing of an unpermitted art space in Northwest is but just another example of D.C. unsympathetic view towards such spaces:

Having lived in my fair share of converted warehouses -- of dubious permitting -- in other cities, this one more area of draconian measures by the DC government which makes being an artist in DC not really worth the trouble.

Complete over-reaction by the part of the DC government but its par for this course.

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Oh, OldPosterKnownAsCranky, we left our tom-tom drum and cymbal at home. With one liners like these about Metro's potential capacity overload, we'll need to remember it more often:

So Metro opens doors, unless too many people want to use Metro. At which point it will close doors.

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Time for the usual awards!

This week's Avatar Award for Achievement in the Field of Avatars goes to none other than dumbek, whose ice cream cake face inspired us to go out and buy some cold treats to follow up our Memorial Day burgers and dogs. Thanks for the inspiration, dumbek!

And this week's Username of the Week goes to Doubledown. We're totally down for a trip to Vegas - you name the time. We're there.

As always, if you've got someone that you'd like to nominate for any of these fine awards, why don't you give us a shout at dcist.wtys [at] gmail [dot] com.