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posted by [personal profile] selkie at 10:53pm on 08/04/2005
Also, overheard this evening as we ...boarded?!... the most techno-savvy minivan ever: "We're watching Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkapants!"
...And then the door closed ALL BY ITSELF WTF.


1. Stand on the right, walk on the... {{THOCK}}

2. The middle of the train car is that way. No, this is the door. The centre door. You want that way.

3. Panda-side up, please. You are only allowed to fob this up three (3) times per day.

4. Let 'em out, let 'em out! (If you are trying to board a train car, please to be letting your fellow riders who want to get off here GET OFF.)

5. "Train approaching. Please stand clear of the granite edge. Train approaching. Please stand clear of the granite edge. This train is gonna hit you, get away from that edge!" -- overheard as a bunch of carousing teenagers nearly met their fate at Arlington Cemetery

6. We can't go anywhere until the door closes. Would you like to refer to #2 now?

7. Move your suitcase. Plz.

8. Wonder where the rest of your tour group has vanished to on the right. Walk on the left.

9. Hesitate and fumble your luggage on the right. Walk on the left.

10. Pause and consider the soaring, elephantine-gray beauty of the 1960's architecture on the right. Walk on the left.
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posted by [identity profile] autiger23.livejournal.com at 04:08am on 09/04/2005
Those are all MONEY! I wish they could get them printed in Fodor's along with all the other tips they put in there. I always make sure to tell my bumpkin family & friends these rules whenever I hear they're coming for a visit. That, and that Vienna and Franc-Springfield mean West, or toward Virginia- New Carrollton and Addison Road mean toward the tourist traps. Armed with that, they can manage.
 
posted by [identity profile] metallumai.livejournal.com at 04:20am on 09/04/2005
heh-- my pal Mick, scientist geek biologist, who is insulated from most things film-wise, pop-culture-wise, was in a plane where they showed him a film he reported to me as "The Prisoner of Astrakhan." Some kind of hat, he thought, or maybe a coat collar....
 
posted by [identity profile] lonespark.livejournal.com at 05:01am on 09/04/2005
Panda card! I still have one in my wallet from years ago. I wonder if I can still use it?
 
posted by [identity profile] lonespark.livejournal.com at 05:02am on 09/04/2005
Oops, that isn't a reply to the above. I am very tempted to buy PoA. It rules.
 
posted by [identity profile] mearth.livejournal.com at 03:33pm on 09/04/2005
Hahaha... excellent.
 
posted by [identity profile] orange852.livejournal.com at 02:48pm on 11/04/2005
But what about the left-handed? Who, oh who, will look after the left-handed who feel the ungovernable urge to stand on the left and walk on the right?

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