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18 May 2006

I'm in Babylon, anyone want anything while I'm here? →[More:]Washington, DC that is...
The chinatown is two blocks long, they have a legal seafood and an Irish pub with chinese writing on the sign. There are tons of non-cops with guns, I swear I saw a dude guarding an empty lot and he had a freakin' sig sauer and a ballistic vest. How're yiz?

post by: Divine_Wino at: 18:11 | 14 comments

Babylon? I hear their whores are great!

posted by jrossi4r 18 May | 18:35

Too religious. It's all hump, hump, hump and have you given any thought to the state of your immortal soul?

posted by Divine_Wino 18 May | 18:43

Point taken. And the hanging gardens aren't so big a deal. You can totally buy hanging plants at Wal-Mart these days.

For serious, though, what the hell are you doing in DC?

posted by jrossi4r 18 May | 18:49

I could use a new pair of sandals.

posted by mudpuppie 18 May | 18:50

Nah. But feel free to yell out loud Capn's advice on the Metro. "STAND TO THE RIGHT, WALK TO THE LEFT!!"

posted by rainbaby 18 May | 18:53

Book Sexpo America, as we say in our sarcastic ironical way, although if I see Dr. Ruth buying a footlong hotdog at the ripoff monopoly anti-trust lawsuit waiting to happen snack bar again this year it will be four years running. Homegirl is tiny and mad friendly. Can anyone confirm the rumors that she was a Israeli sniper in the Stern Gang years or later?

posted by Divine_Wino 18 May | 18:53

Actually only confirm her snipership if it's true, DO NOT DENY, if Dr. Ruth being a fuckering sniper is wrong, I sho nuff don't wanna be right.

posted by Divine_Wino 18 May | 18:56

"Happiness," said the diminutive sniper, "is a warm gun. And I ain't talkin' 'bout my service revolver, neiver. Now that's a smokin' barrel! Bang, bang! Yes it is!!!"

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 18 May | 19:01

From a 2003 National Geographic interview:

We were all trained in the forerunner of the Israeli Defense Force, and for some reason that I can't explain I'm a very good sniper. I can put five bullets into this little red circle (makes circle with her fingers). I know how to throw hand grenades. I've never killed anybody. I was badly wounded.

posted by jrossi4r 18 May | 19:01

She was in the Haganah, not the Stern Gang, but then almost anybody who could walk was part of the Haganah. And I suspect that, like Lee Harvey Oswald, it would be more accurate to call her a trained rifle(wo)man than a sniper or sharpshooter.

posted by stilicho 18 May | 19:04

Ok, so that's close enough. If I run into her we'll talk windage for a minute at least.

I think I knew it wasn't the Stern Gang, I just like typing that.

posted by Divine_Wino 18 May | 19:06

A pizza might be nice. and bribe somebody while your there, about the smoking ban or the ban on booze in full nude strip bars. A pet cause of mine. I'm a good citizen.

posted by jonmc 18 May | 22:38

Dr. Ruth gave me her phone number once, but I lost it. She is totally hot, and a genuinely nice person.

posted by StickyCarpet 19 May | 06:54

Go to that wee little Chinatown, to a place called the Burma, get yourself some green tea leaf salad, and get me some too.

posted by Hugh Janus 19 May | 08:15

← Am I a sexist? || Now *that's* dedication. →

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