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- Recessiontastic! The number of tourists who visit Washington for the next couple of years is expected to drop. [Washington Business Journal]
- ICYMI: A new law enacted this week allows lesbian couples to both appear as parents on the birth certificate of their children at birth, negating the need for a complicated adoption process for the partner who did not give birth to the child. [D.C. Wire]
- A golfer injured at Congressional Country Club today is believed to have been struck by lightning. Yikes! [WaPo]
- A friendly reminder that trees in your neighborhood probably need watering. [Bloomingdale (for now)]
- D.C. Republican Committee chairman Paul Craney not getting along with his neighbors on the Burleith email list. [Vox Populi]
- Disappearance of blight-y used car lots noticed by bloggers. Somewhere, Mayor Fenty is grinning. [Q Street News]
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"...number of tourists... expected to drop."
BLAH BLAH BLAH good BLAH BLAH BLAH left side of escalators BLAH BLAH BLAH FBI t-shits BLAH BLAH BLAH middle America Republicans fat d*ickw**ds BLAH BLAH BLAH some nonsensical crap about voting rights BLAH BLAH BLAH
BLAH BLAH BLAH Segways BLAH BLAH BLAH junkpunch!
Heh. My neighborhood watch association is trying to recruit volunteers by dangling the carrot "Learn to ride a Segway and patrol our streets." Some neighborhood watch dork owns a couple of Segways. I say let the muggers have the neighborhood. If I was half inclined to volunteer for the neighborhood watch before, there is no way in hell I will now that they expect me to climb onto one of those things.
How far will they drop? And it serves them right for standing on the left on the escalators and using paper farecards.
When you run into a family of tourists all with rebel flags on their hats & clothes, the idea of less tourists sure is appealing.
Is there a way we can just take their money... and not have them visit? I want to make this happen.
I too used to make fun of the stupid fat tourists on the Mall. But that was before I spent some time overseas and I got to appreciate how much abuse tourists take at the hands of foreign savages. We've all been there: the turned-up noses from the frogs as we wait in line at the Eiffel Tower or to pee on Napoleon's tomb; the dirty looks from the krauts as we goosestep through the Reichstag giving the Hitler salute; the demands from the local police that we not fish for corpses in the Ganges. But after spending a few vacations in their filthy, stinking Birkenstocks, I'm much more helpful and less disdaining of tourists. When they're standing in front of the Washington Monument and asking which way to the Washington Monument, I cheerfully direct them to the nearest Metro and advise them to take the Green Line to Anacostia and ask for "Ray-ray."
I've also learned that YELLING AT FOREIGNERS IS THE ONLY WAY THAT THEY WILL EVER LEARN TO SPEAK AMERICAN.
You should tell them that the place they're looking for is on J Street.
Well, I usually just tell them to go f**k themselves with a white hot stick but, yeah, I can tell them to look for J Street and then go f**k themselves.
"Excuse me sir, I would very much like your advise about a matter. I would like to justify demonizing an entire group. How should I go about doing this?"
"Can you get away with associating them with Nazis?"
"No, no, that would be going too far. Nobody would believe me."
"The confederate flag, perhaps?
"Perfect!"
Oh, come on now. I see Stars & Bars on the Mall all the time in the summer. How often do you see swastikas? Outside of the annual Soapbox Derby I mean.
Well, they should ban the confederate flag on the Mall, along with softball and everything else that is awesome.*
*don't really think the confederate flag is awesome.
Is that some sort of a new trend? because I have never once seen a confederate flag anywhere within Washington.
Confederate flags can be seen predominately in the rear windows of pickup trucks, and occasionally on the bumper, along with "The South Will Rise Again" and "Visualize Whirled Peas" bumperstickers (the latter left over from the vehicle's previous owner).
Spoken like a true 1994 Ford Aerostar owner from ol' Virginnie!