# XKCD gives DC a shout-out! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 21, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-gives-dc-a-shout-out/597107 "2011-09-21T20:14:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-gives-dc-a-shout-out/597107/1 "2011-09-21T20:14:19Z")
From today’s strip: [xkcd: Chin-Up Bar](http://www.xkcd.com/954/). The Man in the Hat has an adventure on the longest escalator in the United States, a 70-meter-long behemoth. The real-world longest escalator in the United States is at the Wheaton metro stop in DC, measuring a whopping - 70 meters. DC is great. XKCD is great. The two combined? Pure awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-gives-dc-a-shout-out/597107/2 "2011-09-21T20:59:44Z")
I’ve ridden that escalator (more than once behind idiots who don’t observe DC’s hallowed stand-to-the-right rule), and recognized it immediately. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2011, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-gives-dc-a-shout-out/597107/3 "2011-09-21T22:55:24Z")
I’m not sure whether to be sorry that I’m no longer in the DC area, meaning that I won’t be able to carry out that prank, or glad that I’m no longer in the DC area, meaning that I won’t be on that escalator when someone else does it! ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-gives-dc-a-shout-out/597107/4 "2011-09-22T03:47:38Z")
> [@Alan\_Smithee](#): > > I’m not sure whether to be sorry that I’m no longer in the DC area, meaning that I won’t be able to carry out that prank, or glad that I’m no longer in the DC area, meaning that I won’t be on that escalator when someone else does it! If you did it…would you be wearing a hat? 'cause I’d be on the lookout. Not that I’m in DC that often.. -D/a ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-gives-dc-a-shout-out/597107/5 "2011-09-22T05:23:51Z")
Oh. The city, not the comic company. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-gives-dc-a-shout-out/597107/6 "2011-09-22T10:49:48Z")
Yeah, been up that escalator a few times when I was growing up in Rockville. I would not have kind feelings for anyone who stopped it up. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-gives-dc-a-shout-out/597107/7 "2011-09-22T14:17:12Z")
After we went to DC, we found out about this. Too bad! Or we would have ridden it just for the novelty. The Woodley Park one was pretty long, but nowhere near this one… ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-gives-dc-a-shout-out/597107/8 "2011-09-22T16:35:40Z")
I used to ride the Wheaton metro escalator every day. I hated it when it would stop suddenly when I was half way up (which is still twice as long as any reasonable length elevator) ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-gives-dc-a-shout-out/597107/9 "2011-09-22T18:23:35Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Oh. The city, not the comic company. For some reason I thought **Diogenes the Cynic**. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-gives-dc-a-shout-out/597107/10 "2011-09-22T18:28:13Z")
What a jerk. Just put a Slinky down it. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-gives-dc-a-shout-out/597107/11 "2011-09-22T18:33:32Z")
When it was first opened, I ran up the down side of it; just to be able to say I had done it. Man, my quadriceps femorus were burnin’!