What's That You Say?
A happy Saturday afternoon to you, highly regarded DCist commentariat. It's time once again to highlight the crème de la crème of your contributions from yet another lively week of posting. In what way could you better round out a day full of running and protesting?
I suppose we should have known better. Leave it to the deft wordplay abilities of DCist commenters to use the Vietnamese dish pho -- with all its phonetic and edible potential -- in all the right ways. blittle kicked things off, and hence, earned this week's Comment of the Week:
More often than not it's a symbolic number and doesn't necessarily have any association with the number of restaurants they own. For example Pho 14 is named 14 due to its location on 14th street and I know of a couple of Vietnamese places that numbers come from the year they immigrated to the States.
I prefer the Pho-ny named restaurants. I mean how can you not love Pho King? I love Pho King all the time. Except when I got a headache, then I prefer Campbell's chicken soup.
After the jump, Jim Graham's propensity to spawn DCist inside jokes, what U Street really needs, and the best of the rest.
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I've got to be honest with you, if you would have asked me about the most controversial topics on this here site, "Jim Graham's affiliation with Salvadoran political groups" wouldn't exactly be top of the list. Shows what I know.
Of course, this thread also led to a new DCist commentariat inside joke, so at least all that work was really for a cause.
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Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Morrissey -- probably because of our mutual surnames -- but spookiness, you're not exactly doing much to alter the perception that us Moz fans are whiners with a strange predication towards stalkerish behaviors:
One of my most prized material possessions, that I keep in a fireproof box, is a piece of M's shirt, that I fought for at a concert back in my younger years.
Good times.
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There certainly were some, uh, interesting suggestions as to what would be better placed in the space where the formerly Mocha Hut, now U Street Cafe resides.
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EcceNerdo with a potential improvement for the new Circulator route:
This seems cool, but Columbia Rd along a good portion of the Adam's Morgan section is nearly unpassable on the weekends. I highly recommend adding a cow catcher to the front.
Meanwhile, Fluxgirl brings the biting wit to the topic of Metrobus' hiring policies:
Wait a minute....are you telling me that those buses are actually driven by sentient beings? Who can make judgements as to proper driving behavior?
I thought they just wedged a broomstick between the gas pedal and the steering wheel and hoped for the best.
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John, with an eagle-eyed catch on a DC government computer screenshot. (I guess it's fortunate that the other open windows weren't porn.)
How DO I take a screen shot, Google?
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Folks were none too pleased about the breadth and depth of this morning's street closures due to the National Marathon, but the marathon itself did manage to bring together known debaters HCE and IMGoph.
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Yes, we do Cuberat. On fundraising for clean water efforts in D.C. restaurants:
Does anyone else see the irony in having a fundraiser for clean water centered around people paying for water that is notorious for being unclean?
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This week in your guns vs voting rights debate: Wednesday, and Friday. (Spoiler: not much changed, really.)
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Sure, there's infrastructural costs, but RJ just might have a point here about SmartBike's planned expansion:
$3M for 400 bikes that's $7,500/Bike. As of now bikes are bringing in $400/year each. It would take almost 19 years to pay off each bike. I sure hope the expansion brings in more money or brings in a hell of a lot of jobs.
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jamie, with one Washingtonian's outrage over Mayor Fenty's jaunts to China and Dubai:
The problem isn't just the he accepted the trips, or what he did while he was on them. It's that Fenty is a goddamn hypocrite and he personally chastized Williams for all his globetrotting. Additionally, it continues Fenty's propogandist approach to government - we don't hear anything at all about what's going on, except what he tells us.
Well, at least Williams told us where he was going and what he was doing. Fenty didn't bother to do that, and still hasn't, apparently, even in the middle of the present shit storm.
Fenty has done a fantastic job of un-doing everything good done by the Williams administration as far as transparency of government, cronyism, and credibility. We might as well be back in the Barry years. Or maybe we're not, who knows? Because the Fenty administration has the citizens of DC on an information blackout.
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This week in The Magical World of Monkeyrotica: taking on the Cherry Blossom Festival.
I can't think of anything more depressing that hoards of idiot tourists and the mewling crotchfruit mutilating defenseless Cherry Blossom Trees. It's times like these I wish the zombie corpse of Travis the Face-eating Monkey would rise from the dead and smite the blossom pickers. Whatever happened to those cyborg attack beavers the National Park Service invested all those millions in? Did they every fix that problem with using ethyl methane sulfonate as an alkylating agent and potent mutagen? It created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before he left the table. Come to think of it, what did they ever do with that pile of dead beavers? I find it highly suspicious that I keep finding pelts and buck teeth in my Five Guys burgers, although they seem to have taken care of that whole dry-burger problem. Kudos to Five Guys and their new and tasty Beaver Burger® (Under 18 not admitted without a parent.)
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Amidst all of the hubbub about D.C. United's move to out to Maryland, should they trade in their initials?
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It's time for this week's awards!
This week's Avatar Award for Achievement in the Field of Avatars is hereby given to EvilOlive. Here's to hand drawn, completely literal avatars.
Our Username of the Week goes to Brought to you by the letter B -- mostly because, capitalization issues aside, if the first comment of yours that we notice is about the composition of elephant poop, well, you probably should win something.