The Inauguration Thread

Doctor wrote:

Charlie wrote:
How many people travelled to the National Mall for Inauguration Day 2001?

I did – as a protester – and almost everyone else I could see on the parade route were protesters as well.

FIGHT THE POWER!! dork. LOL!

i will be seeing the queen of mean herself, lisa lampanelli, at warner on the weekend after.  i wonder what dc will look like after all those people have come in, trashed, and left the district?

No longer going. Originally, I was to go down early am, stand around (w/ticket) or go inside (great view), leave mid-afternoon, get home in an hour. Uh, the new plan of attack has been amended a few times and was quietly told to me as if it's sane. Spend the night in an undisclosed office on an air mattress, stand in the cold for 4 hours (hand warmers are not enough Santa!), or go inside for no view due to the press bleachers blocking the swearing in platform. Then, drive in traffic for 8 hours to get home.

The bridges are closing the night before, the radio blasts end-of-the-world-don't-use-metro ads…If you are in the city, you have no choice, basically. Otherwise, I say, watch the tele at a pub or at home.

Do they put up big screens? We just need to be like Europe - put up big screens, go to your pub or gather in a big coliseum, hell, let's go to RFK!

nummy - good luck if you go, if not, I'll see if I can coordinate something fun in the new year…
Relaxer - I say enjoy the day to yourself if you can avoid the perils of the traffic/crowd. Your wife may seem to have the easier choice to take off when she wants to, but a full day "vacation" is different than stopping early or running errands. I think everyone should take a day. I did recently. I read, hit the trail while my car got an oil change - man so much different than staying home a day sick.

El wrote:
No longer going. Originally, I was to go down early am, stand around (w/ticket) or go inside (great view), leave mid-afternoon, get home in an hour. Uh, the new plan of attack has been amended a few times and was quietly told to me as if it's sane. Spend the night in an undisclosed office on an air mattress, stand in the cold for 4 hours (hand warmers are not enough Santa!), or go inside for no view due to the press bleachers blocking the swearing in platform. Then, drive in traffic for 8 hours to get home.

The bridges are closing the night before, the radio blasts end-of-the-world-don't-use-metro ads…If you are in the city, you have no choice, basically. Otherwise, I say, watch the tele at a pub or at home.

Do they put up big screens? We just need to be like Europe - put up big screens, go to your pub or gather in a big coliseum, hell, let's go to RFK!

nummy - good luck if you go, if not, I'll see if I can coordinate something fun in the new year…
Relaxer - I say enjoy the day to yourself if you can avoid the perils of the traffic/crowd. Your wife may seem to have the easier choice to take off when she wants to, but a full day "vacation" is different than stopping early or running errands. I think everyone should take a day. I did recently. I read, hit the trail while my car got an oil change - man so much different than staying home a day sick.

when speaking of election day, you may want to refrain from using, "my plan of attack."  :D

what a fag.  ;D

walkonby wrote:
i will be seeing the queen of mean herself, lisa lampanelli, at warner on the weekend after.  i wonder what dc will look like after all those people have come in, trashed, and left the district?

walkonby wrote:
[when speaking of election day, you may want to refrain from using, "my plan of attack."   :D

That's a good point. Why just the other day, I was telling a large group of people I don't know how I planned to "kill the president" and "assassinate Barack Obama with a gun that I myself will fire" and they didn't even know I was just talking about playing Scattergories.

I wondered if anyone would jump on my words that I made reference to with intended sarcasm. It is a plan of attack, much like shopping at the mall on Black Friday, except with 4 billion people…(And by the mall, I mean a shopping center and by…Shoot - did I do it again?)
Besides, it is Inauguration Day - I already voted, silly!

El wrote:
I wondered if anyone would jump on my words that I made reference to with intended sarcasm. It is a plan of attack, much like shopping at the mall on Black Friday, except with 4 billion people…(And by the mall, I mean a shopping center and by…Shoot - did I do it again?)
Besides, it is Inauguration Day - I already voted, silly!

when listening (reading) words that i speak, intended sarcasm is mandatory.  i knew what you meant . . . but i still like messing with the ones who don't. 

relaxer, you are the james bond of funny.  except for the last movie.  no good.

More like standing on the Mall with 4 billion people, on Black Tuesday.

El wrote:
I wondered if anyone would jump on my words that I made reference to with intended sarcasm. It is a plan of attack, much like shopping at the mall on Black Friday, except with 4 billion people…(And by the mall, I mean a shopping center and by…Shoot - did I do it again?)
Besides, it is Inauguration Day - I already voted, silly!

El Tee, are you going to the jello wrestling the day after? haha! Too bad it's not men's jello wrestling…would love to see nkotb as a contestant HEH.

Charlie wrote:
More like standing on the Mall with 4 billion people, on Black Tuesday.

El wrote:
I wondered if anyone would jump on my words that I made reference to with intended sarcasm. It is a plan of attack, much like shopping at the mall on Black Friday, except with 4 billion people…(And by the mall, I mean a shopping center and by…Shoot - did I do it again?)
Besides, it is Inauguration Day - I already voted, silly!

Thanks, Rhett. I can count on you to say exactly what I mean. ;)
No voyeur wrestling for me. Unless walkonby is involved and the jello is green. Figure that one out.

is anyone going to the ball?