Welcome to yet another edition of that fine Monday tradition, What's That You Say?

Luckily for us (and our liver), we had a couple of days between Thursday's Vice Presidential debate and Tuesday's second Presidential debate, otherwise the bingo games might have been too much. It appears as if we weren't the only ones who needed a break from the rigors of Washington's favorite campaign season activity - although as far as your issues with last week's Vice Presidential debate, blittle, the former probably has a lot to do with the latter in our Comment of the Week:

I'm still wasted. Not only did we drink for anytime someone said "maverick", we also took a swig when someone said "table".

I think my roomies and I may have a drinking problem since we thought we needed more of a challenge by adding table to our drinking rotation. Also, did anyone catch what happened in the debate after ten? I can't recall what happened later on in the debate for some reason.

After the jump, debates over pedestrian safety and your thoughts on the big bailout.

Photo by juliacsmith.

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It's good to see that the DCist commentariat can maintain a sense of humor in these dark financial days - for instance, Reid:

Whenever I see those photos of traders on the floor with their anguished expressions, I always wonder if the face has anything to do with the news. I mean in this guys case, maybe he's got his money in a safe investment but he just thought "ahh sh*t, today's my anniversary!" or "damn my nose itches" or "does my breath still smell like onions?"

Then again, some of us - like OldPosterKnownAsCranky - choose to remain blissfully ignorant of the whole kit and kaboodle:

I'm so totally celebrating this federal balls out program!

Bailout?!?! WTF! Now you tell me!?

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Maryland's official state exercise may very well be walking, but we were interested in hearing what you liked for D.C.'s official exercise.

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tribepridewm, you're totally blowing our cover:

While having cell phone reception on the metro would be great, I sort of like being able to use the excuse "Sorry, I was on the Metro," when I don't pick up my phone.

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A lot of debate this week about road safety after a pedestrian death on Connecticut and a biker's reaction to enforced ticketing on New Hampshire.

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As Boomhauer notes, an outbreak of norovirus just means more opportunities for outsider art:

In other news, Georgetown's Art Department reports a sudden uptick in Jackson Pollock-like submissions for the upcoming art midterms.

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Aging midlife boy bands + Wikipedia + photos = hilarity.

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Nats, Ralph Nader; these are pretty easy pickins here, SpeakSoftlyCarryABigStick:

The chances that all the MLB teams, except for the Nats, falling deathly ill and the team winning the pennant by default is still significantly higher than this clown getting elected to anything that has more responsiblity than "water this daily." What a loser!

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You know, the fact that we're even entertaining the idea of awarding Tysons the title of "Single Most Unpleasant Place" is indicative in and of itself.

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In this week's episode of The Magical World of Monkeyrotica, we look to our beloved statesman for reflection on the loss of Olsson's:

Lots of fond Proustian memories of Olsson's. We'd always stop by after a movie at the Key or Biograph or the one in Dupont and poke around the semiology, film and erotica sections. In the pre-MP3 days, the Georgetown store had a decent selection of unpopular CDs and obscure history books which, I guess in hindsight, is why they went out of business. But I guess what I'll miss the most will be the hot goths/punks/book geeks they used to hire. Olsson's was smart enough to know that a cute pierced face, a bright red dye job, and a huge tattooed rack at the front counter brings in business. Just not the same now, what with everybody's granny sporting tramp stamps. I hate America.

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Kev29, since McCain just quit Michigan, I wouldn't put any sort of campaign strategy past him:

If 200,000 Obama supporters in the District show up to vote in their t-shirts, John McCain could win the three electoral votes. Maybe!

Speaking of campaign strategies, it seems as if At-Large Council candidate Michael A. Brown's is "pissing some people off."

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Well, not for those of people with iPhones, smittydc:

What shocks me is the notion that anyone looks at the City Paper Online. The whole point of CP is to read it on the bus or while sitting at a bar.

There are too many good sites servicing the online community (craigslist, dcist, chowhound, WashPost, etc). By trying to compete with them they are just ensuring their own demise. CP controls a very nice niche -- they should stay focused on it.

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Oh, the hilarity: come enjoy as DCist commenters date themselves by disclosing their Google presence (or lack there of) from 2001.

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This week's Avatar Award for Achievement in the Field of Avatars goes to TheCounter. How could we not give it to Rich Uncle Pennybags? We love him. Except for those Community Chest Cards where were he tells us that there's a "Bank Error in Our Favor." That extra $15 is useless.

And this week's Username of the Week goes to fleurdeliz. No, really, that's clever.