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Washington, DC will be setting "Prostitution Free Zones" in various areas downtown during the Inauguration. This will be the most exciting city-wide clampdown on prostitutes since that time Mayor Marion Barry attempted to march them all out of the city across the 14th Street Bridge. Not to worry. These zones have an expiration date, after which Washington's hookers can re-exert their control over the city streets.

DCist's Sommer Mathis explains:

Truth be told, this isn't the first time the MPD has declared a PFZ. You can read about how the law works here, but the basic idea is that it allows police officers to issue fines of $300 to a group of two or more persons found congregating in a public space or property within the PFZ for the purpose of engaging in prostitution or prostitution-related offenses. Still, these signs are sure to look mighty funny to most people walking through the area on their way to the Inauguration on Tuesday.

I am told that these laws will not apply to Congresspersons, staffers, lobbyists or members of the national press, which is terribly unfortunate, because their crimes are legion.

Link (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/16/dc-to-erect-prostitution_n_158659.html)

No cell phone, no cameras, no wine coolers, no beer, no nothing. Apparently the plan is to make the Inauguration as boring as a school assembly.

Since when have inaugurations been fun? The inauguration after parties, now that's a whole other kettle of fish.

Since when have inaugurations been fun? The inauguration after parties, now that's a whole other kettle of fish.
I don't think that fish are going to be allowed in Washington D.C. either. Obama might choke on a white supremacist bone, and then were would we be?

I don't think that fish are going to be allowed in Washington D.C. either. Obama might choke on a white supremacist bone, and then were would we be?

President Wotsisname?

I don't think that fish are going to be allowed in Washington D.C. either. Obama might choke on a white supremacist bone, and then were would we be?
Third Bush term. He snuck it into the constitution on the sly.
President Wotsisname?

Bush.

Third Bush term. He snuck it into the constitution on the sly.


Bush.

I was going for 'You know...that there, um, Bitten guy.'

Since when have inaugurations been fun? The inauguration after parties, now that's a whole other kettle of fish.

They could at least let us have the prostitutes. I mean what are they going to do, give Obama's staff the clap?

They could at least let us have the prostitutes. I mean what are they going to do, give Obama's staff the clap?

Or Obama himself.......

Or Obama himself.......

Well that would be his own damn fault...brotha' should know better than to tap a ho' without some rubber on th' dip stick!

"Not to worry. These zones have an expiration date, after which Washington's hookers can re-exert their control over the city streets."

Why would they need to, when they live in Congress?

"Not to worry. These zones have an expiration date, after which Washington's hookers can re-exert their control over the city streets."

Why would they need to, when they live in Congress?

Bah Zing!

Since when have inaugurations been fun? The inauguration after parties, now that's a whole other kettle of fish.

"Sea Kittens"

Apparently the plan is to make the Inauguration as boring as a school assembly.YES! The people deserve to remember what we children and teens are put through! :mad:
Recognize the boredom on their faces, and hate it! :eek:

They could at least let us have the prostitutes. I mean what are they going to do, give Obama's staff the clap?

Its a new white supremacist plot. They have KKK prostitutes give Obama AIDS.

"Not to worry. These zones have an expiration date, after which Washington's hookers can re-exert their control over the city streets."

Why would they need to, when they live in Congress?

I chuckled. Well played.

Its a new white supremacist plot. They have KKK prostitutes give Obama AIDS.

Well Obama's dad is from Africa...where there's an AIDS epidemic is going on, so maybe the prostitutes should worry about him giving them AIDS?

*a large groan from NSG*

I was going for 'You know...that there, um, Bitten guy.'
Someone bit President Wotsisname? Oh dear!

Ok, so basically, you're complaining that there won't be open drinking and whoring* at an event you're not going to travel a few hundred miles to see....

Aren't there whores, beer and wine coolers in North Carolina?





*which of course does not mean there will not be surreptitious drinking and whoring going on all over the place... nope.

COuldn't all the prostitutes give out free bjs for a day like Krispy Kreme did with donuts?

COuldn't all the prostitutes give out free bjs for a day like Krispy Kreme did with donuts?

In other news, there's been an outbreak of Syphilis, The Claps, Crabs, AIDS, in Washington DC, and no Paris Hilton is not involved.

its all been downhill since the inauguration of andrew jackson anyway.

The south side of the Capitol was literally alive with the multitude, who stood ready to receive the hero and the multitude who attended him. . . When the speech was over, and the President made his parting bow, the barrier that had separated the people from him was broken down and they rushed up the steps all eager to shake hands with him. It was with difficulty he made his way through the Capitol and down the hill to the gateway that opens on the avenue. Here for a moment he was stopped. The living mass was impenetrable.

After a while a passage was opened, and he mounted his horse which had been provided for his return (for he had walked to the Capitol) then such a cortege as followed him! Country men, farmers, gentlemen, mounted and dismounted, boys, women and children, black and white. Carriages, wagons and carts all pursuing him to the President's house. . . . [W]e set off to the President's House, but on a nearer approach found an entrance impossible, the yard and avenue was compact with living matter."

"But what a scene did we witness!"
The immense crowd prevents Kirkpatrick and her friends from entering the White House, so they walk to Kirkpatrick’s near-by home to rest. We rejoin her story three hours later as the group returns to the White House:

"But what a scene did we witness! The Majesty of the People had disappeared, and a rabble, a mob, of boys, negros [sic], women, children, scrambling fighting, romping. What a pity what a pity! No arrangements had been made no police officers placed on duty and the whole house had been inundated by the rabble mob. We came too late.


The crowd storms the
White House
The President, after having been literally nearly pressed to death and almost suffocated and torn to pieces by the people in their eagerness to shake hands with Old Hickory, had retreated through the back way or south front and had escaped to his lodgings at Gadsby's.

Cut glass and china to the amount of several thousand dollars had been broken in the struggle to get the refreshments, punch and other articles had been carried out in tubs and buckets, but had it been in hogsheads it would have been insufficient, ice-creams, and cake and lemonade, for 20,000 people, for it is said that number were there, tho' I think the number exaggerated.

Ladies fainted, men were seen with bloody noses and such a scene of confusion took place as is impossible to describe, - those who got in could not get out by the door again, but had to scramble out of windows. At one time, the President who had retreated and retreated until he was pressed against the wall, could only be secured by a number of gentleman forming around him and making a kind of barrier of their own bodies, and the pressure was so great that Col. Bomford who was one said that at one time he was afraid they should have been pushed down, or on the President. It was then the windows were thrown open, and the torrent found an outlet, which otherwise might have proved fatal.

This concourse had not been anticipated and therefore not provided against. Ladies and gentlemen, only had been expected at this Levee, not the people en masse. But it was the People's day, and the People's President and the People would rule."


http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/jacksoninauguration.htm

Well, it's not like listening to people speak for longer than five minutes with big words was not something most of America would want to do anyways. >->

Speak for yourself.

Since when is the inauguration a party? It's a swearing in of the new president. It's not Marty Grah, it's not the Super Bowl, it's just the transition of power

Since when is the inauguration a party? It's a swearing in of the new president. It's not Marty Grah, it's not the Super Bowl, it's just the transition of power

That is so totally going to be my next RP character's name. I've had such punning names before as Shanda Lear and Justin Case.

That is so totally going to be my next RP character's name. I've had such punning names before as Shanda Lear and Justin Case.
The MST3K of Space Mutiny provided a load of good names (http://incompetech.com/gallimaufry/mstnames.html) for characters I'm especially fond of "Brick Hardmeat."
Unfortunately, the names mainly work for barbarian and fighter-types, but I still have fond memories of my limp-wristed Wizard named "Smoke Manmuscle" (inability to live up to his name provided a great deal of angst).

Since when is the inauguration a party? It's a swearing in of the new president. It's not Marty Grah, it's not the Super Bowl, it's just the transition of power

You can't blame people for wanting to celebrate, I mean it's not every day you get to celebrate the liberation of a country from the depths of tyranny and usher in a whole new era of utopian rainbows and unicorns and fuzzy kittens, you know.

(along with the bold, italic, and underline buttons, there should be a sarcsm button for when I type things like that.)

"Sea Kittens"
http://www.uthscsa.edu/opa/presaward2004/eventimages/51.jpg

COuldn't all the prostitutes give out free bjs for a day with donuts?Fixed, and yes, oh yes.

Well, it's not like listening to people speak for longer than five minutes with big words was not something most of America would want to do anyways. >->It's funny 'cause it's true.



... :(

Obama: Kareoke, no. Biscuits, no. Shouting, no. Sweets, no.

Obama: Kareoke, no. Biscuits, no. Shouting, no. Sweets, no.

Missed his chance. If he had said 'yes' to karaoke, he could have done 'Let's Get It On' or maybe 'Sexual Healing.'

Fixed, and yes, oh yes.
A BJ through a doughnut? Give a WHOLE new meaning to Krispy Kreme...

Most of them are boring anyway.

I must admit I did kind of expect people with big foam fingers and women screaming "sign my bra strap'.

No cell phone, no cameras, no wine coolers, no beer, no nothing. Apparently the plan is to make the Inauguration as boring as a school assembly.

And remember, no free doughtnuts because "free" means "pro-abortion".

And remember, no free doughtnuts because "free" means "pro-abortion".

I'm both pro fee donuts and abortion, so its win win for me!