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Logistics Problem for Obama Inauguration

POSTED BY: GEEZER
UPDATED: Friday, December 12, 2008 15:37
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Friday, December 12, 2008 3:55 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up


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An expert guess for Inaugeration [sic] port-o-john need


http://wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1547219

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WTOP asked Bob Barton with United Site Services, the largest rent-a-john company in the United States, how many he thinks the city will need.

"We've certainly heard estimates anywhere from two to three thousand toilets", Barton says. But the only problem isn't just how many, but where.

"1,500 portable toilets, if you put them side by side, is a line a mile and a half long, " he says.



A mile and a half of porta-potties. A metaphor for the new administration?



"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Friday, December 12, 2008 5:01 AM

HERO


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Originally posted by Geezer:
A mile and a half of porta-potties. A metaphor for the new administration?


Holy Crap!

I note for the record that I attended the 2000 inauguration. They opened most of the govt buildings including Congressional office buildings so people could come in to get warm and use the facilities. Most even had free coffee and hot chocolate and many had free food.

I suspect that since 9/11 they don't do that so much any more.

H

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Friday, December 12, 2008 11:06 AM

FREMDFIRMA


A metaphor for WASHINGTON.

They oughta paint a steer on each one, too.

-F

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Friday, December 12, 2008 3:22 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


A better metaphor for Washington would be if they arrived already full of crap.






Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

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Friday, December 12, 2008 3:37 PM

SWISH


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Originally posted by Geezer:
A mile and a half of porta-potties. A metaphor for the new administration?

I'm pretty far left, and yet have to admit, that was pretty damned funny.

A mile and a half. That's some image, huh? Who remembers Hands Across America? This is the same, only different...

ETA: "A better metaphor for Washington would be if they arrived already full of crap." Even funnier!

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