i guarantee that i'll know the answer!

Why are you so ghey?

When are you leaving it?

i guarantee that i'll know the answer!


Could you tell me what the name of the area is that has the Greyhound Bus Station in it?
We got dropped off there one time and had to walk about 3 miles before we reached the centre of Washington DC - It seemed quite a run dwon area compared to the rest of town.

Could you tell me what the name of the area is that has the Greyhound Bus Station in it?
We got dropped off there one time and had to walk about 3 miles before we reached the centre of Washington DC - It seemed quite a run dwon area compared to the rest of town.
i don't know the answer to that.

actually i see it all the time on the red line of the metro. it's been my experience they always put the greyhound stations in kinda crummy parts of town.

I have a good one for you...


where is it?

(bet you don't know- heee heee hee)

or , better phrased, how do you get there?

I have a good one for you...


where is it?

(bet you don't know- heee heee hee)

or , better phrased, how do you get there?
easy! hang a u-ie in the next apartment block!

Why are you so ghey?
because i sit up at 2:30 in the morning watching jeepers creepers 2 with my homosexual father?

oh, wait. that wasn't me, sorry.

because i sit up at 2:30 in the morning watching jeepers creepers 2 with my homosexual father?

oh, wait. that wasn't me, sorry.


Touche, my friend.. touche.

easy! hang a u-ie in the next apartment block!

I suppose I could have guessed that.
:)

Have you been to the FDR memorial?

Have you been to the FDR memorial?
Is this part of the new WWii thing downtown on the mall? You know I haven't even seen that yet?

I hate they cluttered up the mall with that thing. but for presidential memorials I just know the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials. I don't really sightsee much, I haven't even been up the Washington monument!

Is this part of the new WWii thing downtown on the mall? You know I haven't even seen that yet?

I hate they cluttered up the mall with that thing. but for presidential memorials I just know the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials. I don't really sightsee much, I haven't even been up the Washington monument!



Hmm, I actually believe this is located near the Potomac river. I mean VERY close to it, lol. It's an outdoor thing, as most of the other presidential memorials are. I have always wanted to see it as I have had an affinity to FDR for awhile now.

Tell me about the different neighborhoods and suburban regions.

When I was there awhile ago I went through the WWII memorial while it was being built at night, it spooked me out and I thought somebody would jump out of the bushes and kill me.

Hmm, I actually believe this is located near the Potomac river. I mean VERY close to it, lol. It's an outdoor thing, as most of the other presidential memorials are. I have always wanted to see it as I have had an affinity to FDR for awhile now.
Fdr was one of the better ones, yah. We could sure use some FDR right about now.

You know, for having brashly and boldly guaranteed that I would have the answer to any and all questions, I'm not really answering many of these questions.

I was going to be in DC this week, but Jake got a stomach flu and we had to cancel.  We had
planned to stay at the Holiday Inn/Rosslyn in Arlington.  Is that as close as they want you to
believe?  Is it a descent area?  When we plan the trip again I figure that we will probably book
there, but it would be nice to know if it was a slimy place-or not.

I was going to be in DC this week, but Jake got a stomach flu and we had to cancel.  We had
planned to stay at the Holiday Inn/Rosslyn in Arlington.  Is that as close as they want you to
believe?  Is it a descent area?  When we plan the trip again I figure that we will probably book
there, but it would be nice to know if it was a slimy place-or not.
I like rosslyn a lot. it's a very nice part of NoVA. Visit the spectrum theater, the newseum and some of the clubs in Arlington -- galaxy hut, whitlow's on wilson, bardo.

Also there's a very handy shuttle line from rosslyn over the bridge into Georgetown.

I like rosslyn a lot. it's a very nice part of NoVA. Visit the spectrum theater, the newseum and some of the clubs in Arlington -- galaxy hut, whitlow's on wilson, bardo.

Also there's a very handy shuttle line from rosslyn over the bridge into Georgetown.




Thanks and applause, going somewhere when you don't really know the terrain is always risky.

Fdr was one of the better ones, yah. We could sure use some FDR right about now.

You know, for having brashly and boldly guaranteed that I would have the answer to any and all questions, I'm not really answering many of these questions.



Thank you, Tia. I am glad you gave the FDR memorial a good rating. To me, that's as good as gold  ;)

So where in the D.C. area do you live? I used to live in Tokoma Park. My dad lives just inside the D.C. border near Silver Springs-just off 16th Street.




Cat

So where in the D.C. area do you live? I used to live in Tokoma Park. My dad lives just inside the D.C. border near Silver Springs-just off 16th Street.




Cat
I actually live in northern Virginia, town called falls church about ten miles west of d.c.

http://www.ci.falls-church.va.us/

I read somewhere that falls church has the highest per capita public infrastructure spending of any city in the nation. It has a very nice library. And there's hardly any crime. I'm told a lot of CIA employees live and work here, but I can neither confirm nor deny this.

I have lots of friends in the People's Republic of Takoma Park. And I lived in Silver Spring for like ten years. You should see it now. it used to be all cool and run-down -- I loved it! -- but now it's all refurbished and re-designed, and it looks just like everyplace else.

You have to realize I actually appreciate a touch of urban blight. Reminds you humans live there.

Is April the best time to visit D.C?


I ask because that's when the cherry blossoms are in bloom.

I actually live in northern Virginia, town called falls church about ten miles west of d.c.

http://www.ci.falls-church.va.us/

I read somewhere that falls church has the highest per capita public infrastructure spending of any city in the nation. It has a very nice library. And there's hardly any crime. I'm told a lot of CIA employees live and work here, but I can neither confirm nor deny this.

I have lots of friends in the People's Republic of Takoma Park. And I lived in Silver Spring for like ten years. You should see it now. it used to be all cool and run-down -- I loved it! -- but now it's all refurbished and re-designed, and it looks just like everyplace else.

You have to realize I actually appreciate a touch of urban blight. Reminds you humans live there.





I know where Falls Church is. I used to also live in Arlington (for 1 month-long story) and my mother lived in Alexandra for a short time.



Cat

i don't know the answer to that.

actually i see it all the time on the red line of the metro. it's been my experience they always put the greyhound stations in kinda crummy parts of town.


Yeah must admit it's been our experience of that, we got dropped off in I think, Indianapolis, I'm not sure but it was about 3am and we had to walk past quite a few dodgy areas before we could find a place to stay (as this was one of the stoppoffs we hadn't booked accomodation prior)  so we were scuttling about trying to find somewhere to kip, I remember we were totally zonked aswell at the time.   :D

I actually live in northern Virginia, town called falls church about ten miles west of d.c.

http://www.ci.falls-church.va.us/

I read somewhere that falls church has the highest per capita public infrastructure spending of any city in the nation. It has a very nice library. And there's hardly any crime. I'm told a lot of CIA employees live and work here, but I can neither confirm nor deny this.

I have lots of friends in the People's Republic of Takoma Park. And I lived in Silver Spring for like ten years. You should see it now. it used to be all cool and run-down -- I loved it! -- but now it's all refurbished and re-designed, and it looks just like everyplace else.

You have to realize I actually appreciate a touch of urban blight. Reminds you humans live there.




How strange.. I was just within miles of Falls Church about 3 years ago. My then-boyfriend had a friend who lived there who's a pianist and he was going to take me to visit him but somehow the plans fell through.  :(

Is April the best time to visit D.C?


I ask because that's when the cherry blossoms are in bloom.


Visit Newark in late April, when the cherry blossoms are at their peak in Branch Brook Park. We have the second-most cherry blossoms after DC, and we also have the Edison Historic site and great Portuguese food.

Is this part of the new WWii thing downtown on the mall? You know I haven't even seen that yet?

I hate they cluttered up the mall with that thing. but for presidential memorials I just know the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials. I don't really sightsee much, I haven't even been up the Washington monument!



Tia. Seriously? You haven't taken the lift to the top of that monument? - you should go up there man the views are just brilliant.

Question: Who was the town planner?  I just love the way all the monuments are in such a neat line, like the Monument, then Capitol Hill and umm now what is that other huge monument that forms the 3 notable historic buildings?

The town planner was Pierre Charles L'Enfant.

How come there is a Washington state  as well  ???

How come there is a Washington state  as well  ???
cause washington's the founding poobah baby!

now they name everything after george bush and ronald reagan. in the future we'll all be forced to rename our sons ron and george and our daughters nancy and barbara.

I actually live in northern Virginia, town called falls church about ten miles west of d.c.




I've heard of Falls Church, it figured in the Civil War-but then I guess most of Virginia did.  I did the
genealogy thing and found that one set of ggrands were from Petersburg.  I am going to do a tour
of Virginia soon.  I hear it is a beautiful state.

I've heard of Falls Church, it figured in the Civil War-but then I guess most of Virginia did.  I did the
genealogy thing and found that one set of ggrands were from Petersburg.  I am going to do a tour
of Virginia soon.  I hear it is a beautiful state.
yeah, we're replete with civil war stuff and every highway aout here is named after some southern general, which i find a little disconcerting. i was chilling next to a tree near the local library a few months ago and suddenly see this historical plaque at the base of it -- "so and so union officers were hanged off the limbs of this very tree!" i'm like, yeah, okay, great. thanks for ruining this perfectly nice tree with your morbidass plaque.

yeah, we're replete with civil war stuff and every highway aout here is named after some southern general, which i find a little disconcerting. i was chilling next to a tree near the local library a few months ago and suddenly see this historical plaque at the base of it -- "so and so union officers were hanged off the limbs of this very tree!" i'm like, yeah, okay, great. thanks for ruining this perfectly nice tree with your morbidass plaque.


ooooh yuck. They are the first ones to say African Americans should put slavery in the past.  ::)

I was in DC in August of 1977, did you see me?  I was the chubby girl in the satin shorts and matching tank top!!  LOL!!  :P

My only memory of DC isn't the White House or The Capitol but hearing of Elvis' death.  I was on a boat ride to Mt. Vernon and the made an announcement on the boat that Elvis had died...I was clueless but I figured it was bad because many people were crying.

I was in DC in August of 1977, did you see me?  I was the chubby girl in the satin shorts and matching tank top!!  LOL!!  :P

My only memory of DC isn't the White House or The Capitol but hearing of Elvis' death.  I was on a boat ride to Mt. Vernon and the made an announcement on the boat that Elvis had died...I was clueless but I figured it was bad because many people were crying.
har! in '77 i was in houston. i was the chicken-legged kid with the goofy bowl hair cut. i think we just missed each other.

is it difficult, living there, it being so full of jerks?

I was in DC in August of 1977, did you see me?  I was the chubby girl in the satin shorts and matching tank top!!  LOL!!  :P

My only memory of DC isn't the White House or The Capitol but hearing of Elvis' death.  I was on a boat ride to Mt. Vernon and the made an announcement on the boat that Elvis had died...I was clueless but I figured it was bad because many people were crying.




har! in '77 i was in houston. i was the chicken-legged kid with the goofy bowl hair cut. i think we just missed each other.


I was living there '77 but I think by August, I had left and was in Oklahoma.




Cat

I was living there '77 but I think by August, I had left and was in Oklahoma.




Cat


You're definitely a mover...name all the places you've lived.

is it difficult, living there, it being so full of jerks?
I read somewhere Washingtonians are notorious among new Yorkers for being rude. Did I mention that already?

I tell you the kind of character I've met a lot of - - people who are real power fetishists and are always making asses out of themselves dropping big names. This one choad we all had to suffer through at a party was all, yes, well, at a recent seminar we had a few areas of focus we winged by president Boutros-boutros gali regarding relief plans for the wartorn nation of imageekistan. I'm like, chump, you shined his shoes once at union station, I bet. And sometimes on the metro you see kids in suits and ties, couldn't be a lick over 20, all talking about "the senator's stand on such and so." And I'm thinking, bitch! You bus dishes in the congessional lunchroom and you know it.

So that happens a lot, boocoo poseurism. But since I wouldn't really be that impressed even if they were telling the truth I don't really care if they fake it. whatever.

People always talk about, oh, in Austin or in san fran or wherever everybody's so much friendlier but I've been here for 25 years so I really have nothing to compare it to. Rather sad really. but I can tell you once you get out of the city limits everything's normal. Like my open mic joint, they just play bluegrass songs and eat cheeseburgers like any other normal American.

I read somewhere Washingtonians are notorious among new Yorkers for being rude. Did I mention that already?

I tell you the kind of character I've met a lot of - - people who are real power fetishists and are always making asses out of themselves dropping big names. This one choad we all had to suffer through at a party was all, yes, well, at a recent seminar we had a few areas of focus we winged by president Boutros-boutros gali regarding relief plans for the wartorn nation of imageekistan. I'm like, chump, you shined his shoes once at union station, I bet. And sometimes on the metro you see kids in suits and ties, couldn't be a lick over 20, all talking about "the senator's stand on such and so." And I'm thinking, bitch! You bus dishes in the congessional lunchroom and you know it.

So that happens a lot, boocoo poseurism. But since I wouldn't really be that impressed even if they were telling the truth I don't really care if they fake it. whatever.

People always talk about, oh, in Austin or in san fran or wherever everybody's so much friendlier but I've been here for 25 years so I really have nothing to compare it to. Rather sad really. but I can tell you once you get out of the city limits everything's normal. Like my open mic joint, they just play bluegrass songs and eat cheeseburgers like any other normal American.




I would say in east coast rudeness, top to bottom...

1. Washington D.C
2. NYC (close second)
3. Boston
4. Philadelphia
5. Jersey
6. Baltimore

You're definitely a mover...name all the places you've lived.



NY State
Mass.
Conn.
Virgina (for one month like I mentioned before)
Maryland
Oklahoma
Texas
Greece
Vermont

(Some of those states I have lived in a few different towns/cities)

And I am from and live constantly in the State of Confusion.  ;) :D ;D


Sorry to get off topic. Just wanted to answer the question.



Cat

I would say in east coast rudeness, top to bottom...

1. Washington D.C
2. NYC (close second)
3. Boston
4. Philadelphia
5. Jersey
6. Baltimore


REALLY?!
I have never been treated badly by any New Yorker.
When i really think about it.
It might be a demeanor that outsiders interpret as rude, but i think that Tia and the cool jersey girl
would know better than someone from, say, mid-Iowa.
Now, I don't find Jersians rude either, but we share a border and an understanding.
:)

NY State
Mass.
Conn.
Virgina (for one month like I mentioned before)
Maryland
Oklahoma
Texas
Greece
Vermont

(Some of those states I have lived in a few different towns/cities)

And I am from and live constantly in the State of Confusion.  ;) :D ;D


Sorry to get off topic. Just wanted to answer the question.



Cat


Where in those states? Sorry...I'm curious. I think people who move alot grow up moving alot, and have parents who moved alot. Like my friend Allison lived in like three different places before here, and her parents each moved 10+ times growing up.

New Yorkers strike me as weird, cold, and snooty compared to Jersey people. Or just tough, but warm, like us Jerseyans. Manhattanites is really what I mean...

REALLY?!
I have never been treated badly by any New Yorker.
When i really think about it.
It might be a demeanor that outsiders interpret as rude, but i think that Tia and the cool jersey girl
would know better than someone from, say, mid-Iowa.
Now, I don't find Jersians rude either, but we share a border and an understanding.
:)

I agree.

Having grown up in NY and living there until I was 20 (and visiting a few times every year) I can say that New Yorkers aren't rude (well some are but that's just the person, just like you can find rude people no matter where you go), rather I think the pace is much different than say South West Va. (where I live now).

I agree.

Having grown up in NY and living there until I was 20 (and visiting a few times every year) I can say that New Yorkers aren't rude (well some are but that's just the person, just like you can find rude people no matter where you go), rather I think the pace is much different than say South West Va. (where I live now).


And where in NY?

And where in NY?


Staten Island

Staten Island


That really doesn't count. I mean more Manhattanites.

That really doesn't count. I mean more Manhattanites.


Huh?  What do you mean it doesn't count?

I mean you're from Jersey and you say Manhattanites are rude.

I grew up on Staten Island and I've been to Manhattan many, many, many times, I even worked in Manhattan for a short while, and I'm telling you my thoughts about whether or not they're rude.  We're not judging whether or not I'm rude, are we? 

What is your favourite four letter word that can be made using the letters in WASHINGTONDC?

(I have nothing in mind. I just want to carry on my tradition of contributions of this great caliber.)

What is your favourite four letter word that can be made using the letters in WASHINGTONDC?

(I have nothing in mind. I just want to carry on my tradition of contributions of this great caliber.)
Ima say "DING."

If you give us five you can get "GNASH."

What is your favourite four letter word that can be made using the letters in WASHINGTONDC?

(I have nothing in mind. I just want to carry on my tradition of contributions of this great caliber.)


TONG
WASH
DONC
HINT
SHIN
sheesh

Is Washington more Southern or Northeastern?

Is Washington more Southern or Northeastern?
definitely northeastern. very democratic, multicultural, liberal.

northern virginia is highly southern though.

definitely northeastern. very democratic, multicultural, liberal.

northern virginia is highly southern though.


Isn't Arlington pretty much part of DC though?

Isn't Arlington pretty much part of DC though?
i love arlington! arlington and alexandria are the best towns in NoVA. alexandria is a little more highbrow though.

yeah, both are part of the original boundaries of DC, they got annexed into virginia way back in the day, i forget the details of that. DC was originally broken up into four equal quadrants but now the Southwest quadrant is like six blocks because it basically got given away to virginia.

the parts i mean are west of the quadrant -- FC, fairfax, herndon, etc., along the 66/267 corridor, which is like the new high-tech corridor, one of the richest areas in the nation -- and the 95 corridor to the south, springfield, etc., which is sorta, um, "red-state" hillbilly. (sorry!) both are pretty republican for separate reasons. (rich corporate constituency to the west, NRA gun club constituency to the south.)

sorry to lapse into partisanship.

interesting fact -- the "mixing bowl", an enormous cloverleaf where the beltway meets 95 south, is the largest public works project of all time, at least i'm pretty sure. bigger than the hoover dam, all that stuff. it's in springfield, i used to live there. it was weird because for a while when they were building it,  i was literally having to take a different set of highways to work every week because it was changing so fast.

several construction workers died to make it. just like hoover dam. falling off overpasses, etc., there was a story in the metro section every month or so about it for a while. just like the hoover dam, there's rumors people fell into the cement mixers and their bodies actually ended up being part of the overpasses.

i expect the trees are in bloom.

how long does that last?

i expect the trees are in bloom.

how long does that last?
cherry blossoms aren't but a few days, blink and you miss it.

cherry blossoms aren't but a few days, blink and you miss it.


did you miss it?

did you miss it?
nah, i read about it in the paper.

Washington D.C. is a NE city, but is unique in that nobody is "from" Washington D.C. and its suburbs. It's full of transplants and immigrants. Every other Northeastern city has a large, stable core of people descended from immigrants who stay in the city and suburbs and probably, for the most part, always will.