The New Sucker

comments?

Fresh meat! Who's cuter, Sydney or PtheP?

Who's cuter, Sydney or PtheP?

I really want to know! Ugh. I quit.

Hi Sydney the Runaway blogger. i woke up with the news. But the first thought that I had was: "Are the subs going to write about it in the Achenblog". Then I thought "I am not sure if I want to look at it today" "Maybe I'll check and be a lurker"

Sydney probably already regrets enabling the comments function . . .

Hi Sydney the Runaway blogger. i woke up with the news. But the first thought that I had was: "Are the subs going to write about it in the Achenblog". Then I thought "I am not sure if I want to look at it today" "Maybe I'll check and be a lurker"

(Sorry, I didn't mean you, fdg31 -- I was talking about jw's lecherous comments.)

The comments have been enabled! Hallelujah! Unfortunately I used up my best material over on the other blog commenting--in a round about trash can sort of way--on this one.

Ah, Sydney. I was born in Sydney. I love Sydney. I miss Sydney . . .

yes, the thought of getting out of the metro in a panic might resemeble a hellish slip-n-side. but have you ever considered the opposite?

each day i go down the escalator i think "man, i'd be at the platform already if i could just hop on the shiny section and surf down to the bottom". for those of us who never got over banister-sliding, the metro escalators present a powerful temptation. if only there weren't those little bumps every so often.

Hey, the trash talk can be dragged on for a lot longer, if we just try....bomb-proof trash humor never gets old

Hey, the trash talk can be dragged on for a lot longer, if we just try....bomb-proof trash humor never gets old

and neither does double-posting comments

Thank goodness the comments have been enabled! At this point, posting to the previous entry was a little like being the kid sibling in the back seat at a drive-in movie while Sara & jw sat up front...

My roommate is fairly gullible. I try and convince him to slide down the middle of the escalator every time we ride Metro. I think he is close to cracking.

The Red line escalators seem to have the best distances. You should be able to get some good speed on the ones between Dupont and Medical Center.

My Mum is deathly afraid of down escalators. She refuses to go on them. Up escalators she is fine with. Her logic is that if you trip and fall on a down one, you have a long way to go.

There was also an incident in Boston a few years back at the Aquarium stop, when it still had single-person width escalators. A whole grouple of grade-schoolers was going down when the front one tripped at the bottom. Little kids started piling up, and well, you can imagine what happened. Not good.

Sydney, the clue about finding Joel is in his new title, 'His Porchness'. He is likely right now at this very moment sitting on a fine porch somewhere......

If ever in San Francisco, I hear Sydney's Restaurant is pretty good.

Sydney-
You're doing great. You've gotta know it's killing Joel to be off duty on a big news day, right? So you've got that going for you, which is nice.
To get more in the right frame of mind, you might want to drink WAY too much coffee, obsess and overstress yourself for a few hours, indulge in an intensive inquiry into an obscure scientific subject about which no one except you cares in the slightest, and finally open a mediocre - but properly chilled - bottle of red on your back porch.
The rest will come naturally.

Sydney-
You're doing great. You've gotta know it's killing Joel to be off duty on a big news day, right? So you've got that going for you, which is nice.
To get more in the right frame of mind, you might want to drink WAY too much coffee, obsess and overstress yourself for a few hours, indulge in an intensive inquiry into an obscure scientific subject about which no one except you cares in the slightest, and finally open a mediocre - but properly chilled - bottle of red on your back porch.
The rest will come naturally.

Doesn't Bush's performance today merit some comment? His statement - in a ridiculous brown suit (his idea of how Europeans dress?) - in Scotland was typically incoherent and evocative of his doppleganger (Chauncey Gardiner). He had that heavy breathing long pause between sentences thing going, which is always a sign of his nerves when he has to make the rare unscripted, unteleprompted statement. He is the master of axiomatic banalities. BTW, how about Condoleezza Rice's pronunciation of "allies" ("ul-LIEs"). What's up with that? Is she channelling Churchill? Trying to sound smart?
Thank goodness these geniuses had the foresight to raise the threat level to orange for mass transit today. Don't know WHAT we would have done without that guidance!

PtheP's cuter

Hey, SubwayShy, I think you might have done a disservice to Chauncey Gardiner there.

In No Way Out, the big foot chase scene at the Georgetown Metro Station (HA! HA!) has Kevin Costner sliding down the center shelf between escalators. It's a weird scene for the Georgetown stop and the MTA (Boston?) trains. But there you go, it can be done. And there were the little bumps on the slide, as I recall. Who says actors don't suffer.

Okay, Achenabler, tell the truth. Your real identity is Gene Weingarten! You just know way too much...but then again Gene probly would have put it much funnier. Come to think of it, Gene has been slipping lately...

Okay, Achenabler, tell the truth. Your real identity is Gene Weingarten! You just know way too much...but then again Gene probly would have put it much funnier. Come to think of it, Gene has been slipping lately...

0707 attacks on London were exactly 3 yrs and 300 days since 9/11.

Again, cue Twilight Zone music.

jw - your mum and i have something in common! is anybody here as frightened by the Rosslyn metro escalators as i am? i mean, boy, i can't even look down when i ride down, scares the bejesus outta me! i just imagine myself tumbling down over and over and over. i've been skydiving and that didn't scare me as much as those escalators! And to think of having to walk up that behemoth in the case of an emergency!!! *shudder*