Rally to Restore Sanity vs. March to Keep Fear Alive

[MacGuffin]

http://www.rallytorestoresanity.com/sitewide/images/rally/jon_image.jpg

Think of our event as Woodstock, but with the nudity and drugs replaced by respectful disagreement; the Million Man March, only a lot smaller, and a bit less of a sausage fest; or the Gathering of the Juggalos, but instead of throwing our feces at Tila Tequila, we'll be actively *not* throwing our feces at Tila Tequila.

http://www.rallytorestoresanity.com/



http://www.keepfearalive.com/sitewide/images/rally/stephen_image.jpg

They want to replace our Fear with reason. But never forget -- "Reason" is just one letter away from "Treason." Coincidence? Reasonable people would say it is, but America can't afford to take that chance.

http://www.keepfearalive.com/

[qualia]

Oh m'Gawd. Can I couch surf with you, Mac?

[Resonance]

what

I don't quite get it but I can tell this is going to be amazing

[Hermione]

Hopefully it's going to be the win. Excellent idea anyway.

[Rhu]

It's not like I really needed a reason to get drunk and walk up to the National Mall on the weekend of Halloween, but it's nice to have one just the same.

[Qfwfq]

That's hilarious... wish I could go. I'd definitely rally behind Colbert- Stewart isn't sarcastic enough.

[Domino]

I'm overpowered by it's magnificence. Give me a moment.

[Rhu]

That's hilarious... wish I could go. I'd definitely rally behind Colbert- Stewart isn't sarcastic enough.

That and there'd be less screaming and opportunity to rally people to violence on Stewart's side.

[Hermione]

Let's dress Rhu up as Snape.

I'm going as a Republican in a straight jacket yelling at everyone that they are unamerikan.

[foodeater]

I've been watching this grow on Reddit for the last few weeks, and am now looking for a way to get there. I can't wait.

[C.J.Woolf]

Damn, I'll be out of town that weekend.


That's hilarious... wish I could go. I'd definitely rally behind Colbert- Stewart isn't sarcastic enough.
Colbert. I pledge allegiance to the pun.

[Stryfe]

Something's amiss when a pair of comedians make more sense than most politicians.

I really wish I could be there.

[Qfwfq]

That and there'd be less screaming and opportunity to rally people to violence on Stewart's side.

Unless we choose to crash a tea party.



Colbert. I pledge allegiance to the pun.

Agreed. though later on in the demonstration I may choose to align myself with my more agnostic, queerer brethren. We need a slogan with competitive punnery...

In God we thrust.

[Ferrus]

Are they actually going to stage a riot as the two sides clash, I wonder?

[Rhu]

Unless we choose to crash a tea party.

I made the mistake of getting on the DC Metro at a station near the Glenn Beck rally while it was beginning to disperse.

Even having grown up in a redneck town, I can say I've never seen so many rednecks so densely packed in the same place at the same time.

[mad99001]

I'm going.

[qualia]

Oh my God, Rhu, can I sleep on your couch? Please?

[Devleer]

i'm with colbert because i'm america and so is he.

[Delilah]

As much as I love Colbert, I just can't get behind his pathological hatred of bears.

Go Team Stewart. Or ..something.

[MacGuffin]

Bears are scary.

Bears stand for Russia.

I know where I stand.

[Rhu]

Oh my God, Rhu, can I sleep on your couch? Please?

Yeah, sure... but you'd better... I mean... I just had it de-loused!

[Hermione]

What is that supposed to mean?

I take it to mean you have random odd people sleeping on your couch or something.

[Rhu]

What is that supposed to mean?

I take it to mean you have random odd people sleeping on your couch or something.

Your mother will be very hurt when I tell her you said this.

[Resonance]

Wear a condom at all times when in the vicinity of Rhu. He's like a magnet for creepy hobo rapists. A strong nuclear force magnet, like..the farther away they are, the more they feel an uncontrollable urge to get near him, but when they get within a certain radius they barely feel it at all. But that's when the rapism takes hold...

[Hermione]

Your mother will be very hurt when I tell her you said this.

My mom lovez you.

[qualia]

Yeah, sure... but you'd better... I mean... I just had it de-loused!If you have the comb, we can check me before I walk in the door.

[Hermione]

If you have the comb, we can check me before I walk in the door.

That is disgusting. What is this hold Rhu has over women? The guy has hobos sleeping on his couch for godssakes.

[qualia]

Hobettes.

[Rhu]

Wear a condom at all times when in the vicinity of Rhu. He's like a magnet for creepy hobo rapists. A strong nuclear force magnet, like..the farther away they are, the more they feel an uncontrollable urge to get near him, but when they get within a certain radius they barely feel it at all. But that's when the rapism takes hold...
Listen, you may feel like we're should be inseparable now, but... stow away with some freight a few more times, and you'll mysteriously find yourself drawn to a grassy, lightly wooded meadow that smells of honeysuckle.

I'm not going to call your hobosexuality "just a phase," as so many in the Railroad International Antihedonism Association would do. However, everyone goes through the Rhu phase at one time or another--it doesn't last. Just breathe slowly, take your vitamins, and drink lots of water. You'll get through it.


My mom lovez you.
Everyone's mom loves me. I'm wholesome and sweet. Like a ray of candy-coated sunshine.



If you have the comb, we can check me before I walk in the door.
Your terms are acceptable. Though I suddenly think it would be the best idea in the world to somehow get an airlock/quarantine chamber installed in my apartment.

Not for you, specifically, but because it would be a cool gimmick. And a great security measure.

[MadamI'madaM]

I don't know about this.

It's like hitting a retard for spitting on you.

Also, I have a bad feeling it will just be a miniature (or supercharged) DNC.

[qualia]

Nuh uh. It's like having a party 'cause he spit on you.

Plus, watch the Daily Show where he announced it. Republicans hardly got the hardest hit.

[MadamI'madaM]

Nuh uh. It's like having a party 'cause he spit on you.

Plus, watch the Daily Show where he announced it. Republicans hardly got the hardest hit.

Depends on what you mean by hit and also if you lump in teabaggers with the GOP.

He certainly criticizes the Dems for not being effectual enough to keep their campaign promises (or even seem like they're trying), but most of those clips were highlighting inane soundbites on Fox, with some thrown in fearmongering from msnbc and CNN.

Sure, he's advertising sanity and a reprieve from fearmongering, but his comedy is chock full of despair every night, and he is simply fighting a rally with another fucking rally. Excuse me if that doesn't seem to exude prudence and restraint.

Of course I agree with a lot more of the Democratic platform than the Republican, because I'm a sane, decent human being. However, I don't believe achievement of said platform is in the business model of the Democratic Party, as I believe they stroke the superego for votes just as the Republicans feed the id. Unfortunately, banning gay marriage and abortion is a lot easier than extending social services and cracking down on pollution.

Things Jon has in common with Glenn (although I do love his show):

- transparently partisan to varying degree
- use of visual aids
- raises voice
- overuse of simple analogies and quasi emotive speech
- criticizes respective political wing for pulling punches

He'd better round up the last few moderate Republicans or it will look bad.

I just think it seems doubtful that it will be as restrained and sane as advertised or that it will ultimately benefit anyone besides the Democratic Party.

I guess we'll just have to see.

EDIT:

BUT, if he and Stephen decide to capitalize on the teabaggers to start a 4th party, then I might suddenly get a hard on for politics.

[qualia]

One of the suggested signs was "I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler," referring to both Obama AND W.

I don't see why it'd look bad. His audience skews young, and therefore a bit more liberal. Colbert is also gonna be there. But the point is to be more polite?

And I don't know how you can look worse than tea partiers. Being more polite won't be hard.

[MadamI'madaM]

One of the suggested signs was "I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler," referring to both Obama AND W.

I don't see why it'd look bad. His audience skews young, and therefore a bit more liberal. Colbert is also gonna be there. But the point is to be more polite?

And I don't know how you can look worse than tea partiers. Being more polite won't be hard.

I guess if you view the teabaggers as a de facto legitimate take on reality, then anyone will smell like roses in comparison.

Apparently Bill Maher has gobs of footage of this Christine O'donnell moron from Politically Incorrect.

I assume it only gets better

[qualia]

This one's pretty bad. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTYtu4lSqfU)

Edit: And I don't see it as the de facto, I just see the whole silly Daily Show march as a partial reaction to that.

[Rhu]

I don't think anyone is taking this opportunity this seriously enough. This rally is being set up in such a way as to totally transcend politics-as-usual and finally tackle the real issues. This is why my intention will be to carry a picket sign with no words, just an image. Like...

http://www.psychologytoday.com/files/u26/1463_heavens_gate_468.jpg

I'm pretty sure that the most important political outcome of the whole rally would be if I got people to listen to me about my issue. I'll wear a suit and run around in circles, screaming wordlessly if I have to. If I have to take off my clothes, then take a Nair bath followed by an oil bath so I can effectively wrestle with DC cops, by golly, I'll do that too.

[qualia]

I would nair and oil you any day, rhu. :wub:

[Delilah]

I don't think anyone is taking this opportunity this seriously enough.

I am taking this event as seriously as I ever take the epic battle between the Sharks and The Jets.

Deadly serious.

[Rhu]

I would nair and oil you any day, rhu. :wub:
Aww, baby, I just hope you still have that :wub: in your heart when you have to make an emergency run to the store for a dustpan and some Draino to keep the pipes from backing up.


I am taking this event as seriously as I ever take the epic battle between the Sharks and The Jets.

Deadly serious.

The casualties of that torturous fifty-five year war are astronomically fabulous.

[Delilah]

The casualties of that torturous fifty-five year war are astronomically fabulous.

They are ranked right up there with The Warriors at last count.

Gangs are dangerous, kids.

[qualia]

Aww, baby, I just hope you still have that :wub: in your heart when you have to make an emergency run to the store for a dustpan and some Draino to keep the pipes from backing up.We'd be doing it

http://www.supercoolbaby.com/pictures/tummy-tubs.jpg

style.

Or you could just Vaseline up and not have to worry about nair and oil.

[Rhu]

http://www.supercoolbaby.com/pictures/tummy-tubs.jpg

That refraction is awesome. Normal baby down to the shoulders, and then... some sort of plump porkmonster.

Now I'm wondering how people rolling around in gyroscopic suspension spheres filled up to the neck with water would look. I also wonder how these spheres would perform in some sort of supersized skeeball game.

[Delilah]

That refraction is awesome. Normal baby down to the shoulders, and then... some sort of plump porkmonster.

Now I'm wondering how people rolling around in gyroscopic suspension spheres filled up to the neck with water would look. I also wonder how these spheres would perform in some sort of supersized skeeball game.

Liar. You are planning to fill a florists tube with liquid and insert your......

[qualia]

Why isn't the google image search for "florist tube" safe for work at all?? :blink: Organic flower arranging!

[Rhu]

But I'm already forced to wear clown shoes! I don't need my feet to look any bigger!

[Delilah]

Why isn't the google image search for "florist tube" safe for work at all?? :blink: Organic flower arranging!

The dirtiness of my mind knows no bounds.

I used to work at a florist shop. Oh, the stories I could tell.....


But I'm already forced to wear clown shoes! I don't need my feet to look any bigger!

I was talking about your ears, like Spock!

[proverbs6:13]

Why isn't the google image search for "florist tube" safe for work at all?? :blink: Organic flower arranging!

:theclap: florist and tube, surprisingly, are both fine individually. Which is all the more entertaining.

[C.J.Woolf]

This one's pretty bad. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTYtu4lSqfU)
In more ways than one. O'Donnell's voice is nails-on-a-chalkboard annoying.

[Melody]

This is why my intention will be to carry a picket sign with no words, just an image. Like...

http://www.psychologytoday.com/files/u26/1463_heavens_gate_468.jpgDUDE! i'd pay money to a sign like that

[qualia]

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/hs466.snc4/50314_155247304494318_1723_n.jpg?

Texans: who is up for a Rally to Restore Sanity: Austin Satellite Event (http://www.restoresanityaustin.com/?) meetup? They're working to get a bigscreen simulcast and other speakers. Plus I will bring cupcakes!

[C.J.Woolf]

The event's name implies that there once was sanity in the US. I'm dubious about that.

[qualia]

We have our moments.

[Jennywocky]

But I'm already forced to wear clown shoes! I don't need my feet to look any bigger!

Shut up and start pumping.

[Fig]

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/hs466.snc4/50314_155247304494318_1723_n.jpg?

Texans: who is up for a Rally to Restore Sanity: Austin Satellite Event (http://www.restoresanityaustin.com/?) meetup? They're working to get a bigscreen simulcast and other speakers. Plus I will bring cupcakes!

What kind of cupcakes?

[qualia]

This kind. (http://www.polkadotscupcakefactory.com/cupcakes.htm)

[Fig]

I'll try to be there.
How do people plan on meeting up?
Should I wear a red flower on my lapel?
Hold a large INTP sign in the middle of the crowd?

[qualia]

More people need to come. I'll PM Stigmata and Pan_Sonic. We can all be awkward and cupcaked together.

[Feller]

I'm going. I don't know if I want to see you people though.

[msg_v2]

I'll probably go tomorrow. I'm not sure if enough people know who I am here to care, though.

I do think a meet-up sounds groovy.

[Rhu]

I don't think anyone has the J-powers to actually organize a meetup on this short a notice. Unless it's like, "Meet in front of the carousel next to the hot dog stand on the mall at 4pm."

But I'll probably shuffle over there, anyways. Provided I can wake up and get some clothes on before the show is over.

[Hermione]

Damn. I'll be at work in the morning. After that I plan on having a very busy day scratching my head wondering why I didn't drive down to the Metro park and ride in order to get there. [cheap, lazy, and unorganized: space cadet liberal.]

[msg_v2]

I don't think anyone has the J-powers to actually organize a meetup on this short a notice. Unless it's like, "Meet in front of the carousel next to the hot dog stand on the mall at 4pm."


The last is more of what I had in mind.

Although, it's probably pretty doubtful that I'll be going. Seeing as how I'm unemployed, I probably shouldn't be spending money on travel.

[sandwich]

Umm... I'll probably be at the Seattle site....... I know there've been some recent posters from the area. [7]

[Zephyrus055]

Umm... I'll probably be at the Seattle site....... I know there've been some recent posters from the area. [7]

I miss WA. Such mild weather. It's all ready too damn cold here.

Oh, and I am not attending the rally. Our country's elite have lost all sense of stewardship. A rally isn't going to change that.

[Hermione]

I think Rhu should volunteer to go for all of us in D.C. area and then post about it and whatnot. If he has one of those whozits he could go to IRC chat on his super phone I guess and give us the lowdown play-by-play. I'm missing Sheryl Crow and other famous people like Rhu, damn it.

[Rhu]

Cheryl Crow? When Cheryl Crow came on, the crowd started chatting amongst themselves!

[Qfwfq]

K so what happened? Details, details.

[qualia]

I missed all but the last 15 minutes. I really can't wait for them to sell it at an exorbitant price.

[Rhu]

I tried to count the people there. After I ran out of fingers, I became terribly confused. There may have been as many as fifty.

The crowd itself was comprised of sarcastic people turning to make wisecracks at one another at every opportunity. People weren't getting swept up in emotion*, but rather outsnarking each other. There was kinda a running quip competition between myself and an English Muslim that I ended up standing next to. Towards the end of the show, when R2-D2 rolled out to lay down a harsh rebuke on Colbert, he turned to me and noted, "You know, the most ironic thing about this whole event is that we're probably going to have to look to the internets in order to know what went on here today."

I expect that much of the crowd was like this, and it wasn't only my influence on my particular pocket of it.



*There were exceptions, of course, like a woman who suddenly discovered she was agoraphobic and had to attempt to make one of those 100 ft/hr exits in the middle of a panic attack, being led by a very pissed off husband and terribly unhappy-looking children.

[Hermione]

Well, crap. So just a bunch of snarky weirdos mostly, eh? Hell I already got that right here now don't I? I am glad you got out for some fresh city air and a nice brisk walk through the yuppies. I guess they mostly all left Wonderland today which was probably why going to run errands and grocery shopping wasn't the complete hell it usually is. Well done. No one cares about Sheryl Crow but me; well did she sing any of my favorite songs or what? lol

Good job, Rhu. I imagine it was difficult even for you to outquip the English Muslim or to outsnark a bunch of yuppies. I know, you did it for the team. Hell, aren't you glad to be home?

Hooray politics: the comedy road show.

[Qfwfq]

Well you were on the dark side of the moon. I don't suppose you saw any of John Stewart's Rally?

[teleforce]

i got to the SF one right when it was ending. it was a tiny crowd by then and ended an hour early.

[Mr.G]

Well I went to the D.C. rally, and I haven't felt this much regret since I went to see 'Alice In Wonderland'...

WAY too many people. You had to shove your way though the entire rally. The stage where everything was going on was closed off by a gate and reserved for "V.I.P." members only, so you could hear everything, but couldn't see anything. I really could have just saved time and money and just watched it on t.v.

[giegs]

Here is Jon Stewart's closing statement..

Closing Statement

And now I thought we might have a moment, however brief, for some sincerity. If that's okay - I know that there are boundaries for a comedian / pundit / talker guy, and I'm sure that I'll find out tomorrow how I have violated them.

So, uh, what exactly was this? I can't control what people think this was: I can only tell you my intentions.

This was not a rally to ridicule people of faith, or people of activism, or look down our noses at the heartland, or passionate argument, or to suggest that times are not difficult and that we have nothing to fear--they are, and we do.

But we live now in hard times, not end times. And we can have animus, and not be enemies. But unfortunately, one of our main tools in delineating the two broke.

The country's 24-hour, political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems, but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems, bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen. Or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire, and then perhaps host a week of shows on the dangerous, unexpected flaming ants epidemic. If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.

There are terrorists, and racists, and Stalinists, and theocrats, but those are titles that must be earned! You must have the resume! Not being able to distinguish between real racists and Tea Party-ers, or real bigots and Juan Williams or Rick Sanchez is an insult--not only to those people, but to the racists themselves, who have put in the exhausting effort it takes to hate. Just as the inability to distinguish terrorists from Muslims makes us less safe, not more.

The press is our immune system. If it overreacts to everything, we actually get sicker--and, perhaps, eczema. And yet... I feel good. Strangely, calmly, good. Because the image of Americans that is reflected back to us by our political and media process is false. It is us, through a funhouse mirror--and not the good kind that makes you look slim in the waist, and maybe taller, but the kind where you have a giant forehead, and an ass shaped like a month-old pumpkin, and one eyeball.

So why would we work together? Why would you reach across the aisle, to a pumpkin-assed forehead eyeball monster? If the picture of us were true, of course our inability to solve problems would actually be quite sane and reasonable--why would you work with Marxists actively subverting our Constitution, and homophobes who see no one's humanity but their own?

We hear every damned day about how fragile our country is, on the brink of catastrophe, torn by polarizing hate, and how it's a shame that we can't work together to get things done. The truth is, we do! We work together to get things done every damned day! The only place we don't is here (in Washington) or on cable TV!

But Americans don't live here, or on cable TV. Where we live, our values and principles form the foundation that sustains us while we get things done--not the barriers that prevent us from getting things done.

Most Americans don't live their lives solely as Democrats, Republicans, liberals or conservatives. Americans live their lives more as people that are just a little bit late for something they have to do. Often something they do not want to do! But they do it. Impossible things, every day, that are only made possible through the little, reasonable compromises we all make.

(Points to video screen, showing video of cars in traffic.) Look on the screen. This is where we are, this is who we are. These cars. That's a schoolteacher who probably think his taxes are too high, he's going to work. There's another car, a woman with two small kids, can't really think about anything else right now... A lady's in the NRA, loves Oprah. There's another car, an investment banker, gay, also likes Oprah. Another car's a Latino carpenter; another car, a fundamentalist vacuum salesman. Atheist obstetrician. Mormon Jay-Z fan.

But this is us. Every one of the cars that you see is filled with individuals of strong belief, and principles they hold dear--often principles and beliefs in direct opposition to their fellow travelers'. And yet, these millions of cars must somehow find a way to squeeze, one by one, into a mile-long, 30-foot-wide tunnel, carved underneath a mighty river.

And they do it, concession by concession: you go, then I'll go. You go, then I'll go. You go, then I'll go. 'Oh my God--is that an NRA sticker on your car?' 'Is that an Obama sticker on your car?' It's okay--you go, then I go.

And sure, at some point, there will be a selfish jerk who zips up the shoulder, and cuts in at the last minute. But that individual is rare, and he is scorned, and he is not hired as an analyst!

Because we know, instinctively, as a people, that if we are to get through the darkness and back into the light, we have to work together. And the truth is there will always be darkness, and sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel isn't the promised land.

Sometimes, it's just New Jersey.

[YHWH]

These cars. That's a schoolteacher who probably think his taxes are too high, he's going to work. There's another car, a woman with two small kids, can't really think about anything else right now... A lady's in the NRA, loves Oprah. There's another car, an investment banker, gay, also likes Oprah. Another car's a Latino carpenter; another car, a fundamentalist vacuum salesman. Atheist obstetrician. Mormon Jay-Z fan.


"The world is a strange place to live in. All those cars. All going someplace. All carrying humans, which are carrying out their lives."

[Anonymous]

The guy in the above metaphor who cut people off was Bernard Madoff, who single-handedly destroyed enough wealth to have easily built a tunnel big enough to accommodate everyone in a way that doesn't even require constant concessions/yielding.

[Feller]

My friend and I stayed in a hotel just outside of DC, the furthest subway stop on probably the furthest line, and when we got to the Metro station at like 10:00 the line to get a Fare Card was 3-4 abreast going at least 100 yards back (luckily we already had ours). The station nearest the rally was like 12 stops away from where we got on, and by the 3rd stop the train couldn't fit anymore people.

[foodeater]

The three of us drove 9 hours and got to DC at 4 in the morning. We were staying at a random internet person's house, he told us how to get into his house and where we were staying. We got there and opened the door to our room and there's a guy sleeping on a cot. This was not expected. We wondered if we should just go in, lay down on the floor (we forgot blankets and pillows) and try to sleep for three hours. We heard someone in another room say "This is the sound a dolphin makes- E-E-E-E-E!" We went and tried to sleep. A little while later we hear a girl screaming at the top of her lungs, "WHAT IS THAT? WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!" Assuming someone was being murdered (or having night terrors), we tried to get some rest.

We got up at 7:30 and drove around trying to find the nearest metro station. A guy at 7/11 gave us directions but I didn't hear them very well, so we ended up driving around trying to find an open wireless network. Once we did we got directions to the station and boarded the train. We brought a bunch of signs and even more blank posters, hoping we would be able to make some more signs for the many slogans we'd come up with. We got to the mall at 9 and I didn't want to have driven for 9 hours to get a bad view. It was early enough that we could get relatively close without a problem, and we handed out a few of the signs we made, but after that it was packed. I took the lead and we pushed our way up to maybe 100 or 200 yards from the stage, next to the first jumbotron in the crowd on the right facing the stage. People that close who had blankets and chairs were complaining about how they had been there since five in the morning, like that changes the fact that they're taking up around 10 bodies worth of prime space to sit down and listen to the massive speakers talk to them. One woman was bitching me out for stepping across her blankets (she had 5 or 6 of them), and another woman with her had her legs up to keep people from getting past. I hopped between the blankets and stepped across the woman's legs and the older woman started bitching me out by saying she was there so early and essentially that she deserved the spot for camping out. I told her I had driven 9 hours, gotten in at 4 in the morning, got two hours of sleep and deserved to be able to move forward if I wanted to. She said, "It's okay, I'm not really angry at you." Hah, sure. I beckoned for my friends- they seemed reluctant to move further forward but eventually followed me. After a lot of pushing and shoving we got to a good spot to stop, and we camped out for a few hours until the rally started. Except for Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow I enjoyed the rally a lot. And they weren't bad, just disappointing after the buildup Jon gave them. I was hoping for Thom Yorke or something after that. I enjoyed Jon's closing speech; a lot of it was obvious but some of it I hadn't thought of before.

We waited for the crowd to disperse, then sat down by a tree. A shitload of people came up to one of my friends because he had a sign that said "Ban Comic Sans" and apparently everyone HATES comic sans and took pictures of him with the poster. We walked to the Washington Monument to meet up with some people, and posed for a lot of pictures with our signs (ban comic sans, deport the hipsters, and if Obama was born in America why doesn't he look like me? -- one of our goals was to get our signs onto a blog).

Later on, we got back to the house and met our host. We crashed shortly after that, slept for 12 hours, and drove back this morning/afternoon.

[C.J.Woolf]

I hope somebody collects pics of the signs and puts them on a website.


BAN
COMIC
SANS

Heh. Yeah.

[Rhu]

The biggest laugh over signs I had was this guy.

He was standing in the middle of 4th St SW as the crowd was dispersing after the show, holding the biggest sign I saw at the event, with a large picture of his balding, chubby head. It had bullet points that listed all of his various strengths, such as having a steady income, his great sense of humor and his low-drama persona. "Please date me!" the sign begged in big, bold letters.

I laughed, and offered to shake his hand. "I can't!" he said, noting that the sign would fall over, crushing pedestrians if he took either hand off of the two-by-four holding his sign up. I laughed again, wished him luck, and hurriedly threaded my way through the crowd to get back to my apartment.

Other worthy mentions:

I masturbate and I vote.
(not at the same time)
(not anymore, at least)

"Free Hugs" -- but only because said sign was held by an exceptionally pretty young woman. Of course I took her up on it.

[C.J.Woolf]

I masturbate and I vote.
(not at the same time)
(not anymore, at least)
Gives a whole new meaning to "pulling the lever" for a candidate, eh?

My favorite "...and I vote" bumper sticker is


I eat the flesh of the living
and I vote!