[Preacherman]

I received the following e-mail from the API List this evening, and after I stopped laughing (eventually), thought it was too good not to share! Enjoy!To nobodys surprise there were protestors today in DC, they attempted to disrupt the metro system and block the Key Bridge, a leading artery into DC from Northern Virginia. I got hosed twice because I come in from NoVA on the metro and it is raining hard which makes traffic worse any way. My commute was long and arduous and only caused further resentment for protestors (but that isn't the point of this thread).
Anyway, I'll get to the point.

I got off my train in Rosslyn because I had to use the bathroom and the train was moving quite slowly. When I was getting back on the train, there were protestors on the train platform handing out pamphlets on the evils of America. I politely declined to take one.

An elderly woman was behind me getting off the escalator and a young (20ish) female protestor offered her a pamphlet, she politely declined.

The young protestor put her hand on the old woman's shoulder as a guesture of friendship and in a very soft voice said, "Ma'am, don't you care about the children of Iraq?"

The old woman looked up at her and said, "Honey, my first husband died in France during World War II so you could have the right to stand here and bad mouth your country. And if you touch me again, I'll stick this umbrella up your *** and open it."

I'm glad to report that loud applause broke out among the onlookers and the young protestor was at a total loss for words.

[Quartus]

Oh, man, I sure hope that really happened!

:D

[Beorn]

Hooray Granny!:D

[jmbg29]

My grandmas were like that.:D

I'd give a thousand protesters to have them back one more day.:(

[Seawolf]

Priceless!

[Blackhawk]

I'm glad to report that loud applause broke out among the onlookers and the young protestor was at a total loss for words.I'm ecstatic that loud applause broke out and very proud of that lady! :D

[10-Ring]

Go Granny!

[12.7x99mm]

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[D.W. Drang]

I have to make a comment on the "Peace Pipes/War Drums" thing. Now, I was thinking "peace pipes" as opposed to "bag pipes", which I suppose is naive of me, but what most people think of as "peace pipes" I have been referring to as "medicine pipes" for several years now.
In Native American culture a Peace Pipe is what you smoke to CEMENT the peace. It may be part of the treaty to end a war, as well as to avoid one. There are also War Pipes...

I doubt if I need to remind anyone here that Native American have the highest rate of enlistment of ANY ethnic group in the USA, and I have been told that some may take use of the term "Peace Pipes" in connection with spineless wimpy appeasers amiss.... (There is an organizatin of Medicine Pipe makers, which has a VERY high rate of military service! www.pipekeepers.org.)

OK, I've done my PC deed for the year... :D

[SodaPop]

My grandmas were like that


Sounds like My 5'0" Irish grandma.

[cuchulainn]

Padre,

That's funny.

I was a bit put off by the going to the bathroom part (there are no bathrooms in the D.C. Metro and the Rosslyn station is a *deep* escalator , so it's not just a hop off the train, leave the system and get up to the street) but it's possible that it happend.

But I quibble.

[XLMiguel]

Cuch-
there ARE bathrooms in the Metro stations. they aren't marked, and you have to ask to use them :fire: , but they are availalbe. legally, they can't deny you access.

Wsahington commuters lose their patience with protestors periodically, sometimes there are 'accidents' wherein the protestor becomes a hood ornament.

Everyone with a 'cause' seems to feel the need to come here to press their case, and while no one disputes their right to express their opinion (and there's that part about 'gathering peaceably'), that doesn't extend to keeping me from getting to work and/or messing with my livelihood, and hence, threatening my family's wellbeing. Such behaviiour doesn't engender sympathy for your cause, and maybe hazardous to your health.

Stay our from between my headlights, fool!!:fire:

[cuchulainn]

Mike,

True enough about the secret bathrooms. But again, it's not simply a hop off the train. It would probably be faster to leave the system and find a bathroom than to find a worker to let you in the hidden bathroom.

But I quibble.

[yesterdaysyouth]

everytime i see a sea of protestors clogging up a street i ask .... don't these people have jobs????

[Mark Tyson]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.

And I want to know one thing: where are these wonderful, caring people when the Russians went into Chechnya killing everything in their path? Where were the mobs in Paris and London and Rome?