The word restaurant/ristorante originally referred to enemas because they were believed (17th/18th centuries) to “restore” the body’s health and humors balance. I’ve tried to think of something that would work this in to restoring sanity but… way too obscure.
Youse guys need to submit some of your sign ideas to Sane or Not, because a lot of the sign ideas there are really stupid when they’re not snarky or nasty or otherwise Completely Missing the Point.
Man, we’re a lot smarter and funnier than a lot of people out there.
I’m quite certain it was intended to be a joint thing all along. I really doubt they would have wanted to force their attendance to split up like that.
I’m coming on the HuffPo sanity bus, which is leaving Citi Field (only time I will ever be there unless there’s a half-the-Beatles Reunion) at 6 in the ayem. Yikes.
My question is for DC-area dopers: I’ve heard that buying tix at the Metro station at RFK stadium means long lines. I’ve bought subway fares in NY and Boston so the machines don’t scare me but the lines do, I’d rather be spending an hour walking around downtown. There is a way to buy tickets online, which looks easy enough but I don’t know what it means physically to buy such a ticket. Do they give you a print-out that gets you through the gates when you get there or are you supposed to do it in advance and get it mailed out to you (in which case I totally blew it). Thanks!
I’d love to sightsee or go to the statue to meet Dopers but the HuffPo is keeping us on kinda a tight leash timewise. Next time!
I’ve been perusing the media reports of the rally and wow, do they ever vary. They range from the gushing to the dismissive, with crowd estimates from “tens of thousands” to 500,000 (not counting Stewart’s “ten million” joke or the “FoxNews estimates crowd size at seven people” joke on HuffPo). The network news organs are spinning it as an attack on cable news, the cable news people are spinning it as a comedy event, and Andrew Breitbart is spinning it as “Jon Stewart’s Mock-the-People Anti-Beck Rally”.
Fox is hilarious. I read their report, and all they say is tens of thousands and that the park permit was for 60,000, which was clearly blown out of the water by the real numbers. Beck wishes he had this audience.