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well i've heard its going to be turned into a basketball court. each new president does his own thing with it. its been tennis courts and miniature golf courses. if it was me, i'd build, i'd spend the off hours in my four to eight year term building one hell of a model railroad in there.

so, the thing is, we each have our own space consuming pastimes, so what would each of us, each of the rest of you, turn that space into if you were u.s. president and it was yours to do with?

An indoor go-kart track! :D

A mudpit. Duh. :p

I've always wanted a full size Jello filled swimming pool. With a diving board.

I'd keep it a bowling alley.

Some sort of airsoft arena

A giant mud-pit.

Hehe, I didn't think Obama would keep it a bowling alley...

I, however, would sharpen my mad bowling skillz!

Paintball!

Let's see if the Secret Service can protect the Prez in simulated combat!

Paintball!

Let's see if the Secret Service can protect the Prez in simulated combat!

Airsoft would be better, because Airsoft guns are more realistic.

Cricket pitch.

Some sort of airsoft arena

I could go for that.

A giant mud-pit.

Can I be your veep?

A bowling alley. I'd restore it to the original state, then I'd use my president powers and designate it a national historical landmark.

That would stop my successors pissing away tax money on their fucking hobbies.

Airsoft would be better, because Airsoft guns are more realistic.

Yay! another airsoft fan!!

Cricket pitch.

Hmmm are you a fellow Brit?? :P

Yay! another airsoft fan!!



Hmmm are you a fellow Brit?? :P

Naturally. Given Bush's reflexes dodging that shoe, I'd wager he'd be a decent player of short pitche bowling. Memories of Brian Close against Michael Holding, or so I'm told, what with my being born all of 15 years or so after that series.

well i've heard its going to be turned into a basketball court. each new president does his own thing with it. its been tennis courts and miniature golf courses. if it was me, i'd build, i'd spend the off hours in my four to eight year term building one hell of a model railroad in there.

so, the thing is, we each have our own space consuming pastimes, so what would each of us, each of the rest of you, turn that space into if you were u.s. president and it was yours to do with?

Keep it a bowling alley, but section off certain areas to build random crap in (like the aforementioned model railroad, or erector sets, or some combination thereof)

Part display area for transformers, part warhammer/blood bowl game room, part arcade. And part bowling alley.

Hot tubs

Strip club.

Strip club.

That's the oval office's new look.

Cricket pitch.

Naturally. Given Bush's reflexes dodging that shoe, I'd wager he'd be a decent player of short pitche bowling. Memories of Brian Close against Michael Holding, or so I'm told, what with my being born all of 15 years or so after that series.

He just needs a good Shaun Tait bouncer -- that'd sort him out. But yeah, cricket pitch would own.

He just needs a good Shaun Tait bouncer -- that'd sort him out. But yeah, cricket pitch would own.

"Built like Tarzan, plays like Jane"...I do quite like Tait, and fuck me but he is scary when he's bowling well, but Ricky Ponting was quite funny describing Shaun Tait thus.

Naturally. Given Bush's reflexes dodging that shoe, I'd wager he'd be a decent player of short pitche bowling. Memories of Brian Close against Michael Holding, or so I'm told, what with my being born all of 15 years or so after that series.


Hmmm i didn't think about the whole Bush's shoe dodging skills being transfered into the cricket world. But yes i totally agree, cricket for the white house, they need a bit of old Brittania. :D

I'd stick a supercomputer in there I could have a chat with if everyone else was pissing me off. It'd be great.

"Och computer why is america all broken?"
"BEEP BOOP YOUR UNSUCCESSFUL ECONOMIC PLAN OF FORCING ALL PEOPLE TO WEAR TOP HATS TO STIMULATE THE HEADGEAR INDUSTRY"
"Oh right, any way you could think of fixing this?"
"BEEP BOOP YES YOU SHOULD ACTUALLY MAKE IT SOMETHING MORE EXPENSIVE SO YOU GET HIGHER TAX REVENUES"
"Oh cheers computer"
"BEEP BOOP NO WORRIES"

Giant WH40k battlefield.

Yay! another airsoft fan!!

Hehe yep, I just wish I owned some Airsoft guns. I want to buy the ones that has CO2 cylinders.

An indoor go-kart track! :D

Go-kart scale Nurburing and Circuit de La Sarthe. Which I would race on around the clock pending my impeachment for wasting time, dollars, and uprooting vast sections of an historic building for such a folly.

Bowling lanes or golf. Or something non-athletic. Maybe a giant Chess board. I'm not really a sports person.

I would say lybrary or movie theatre, but I'd be surprised if the White House didn't have those already.

Opium den.

My own personal everything under the sun SPA: massage parlor, salon, hot tub, mud tub, all the skin treatments, waxes, wraps, and fancy juice and champagne I could want and a large indoor swimming pool! Oh and maybe my own personal Godiva chocolate shoppe.

Has President Obama declared whether he will use square or rounded toothpicks yet? I wonder what his choice would be. Can we have a thread on that?

But anyway, I'd go with racquetball or, if it's big enough, Jai-Alai.

Has President Obama declared whether he will use square or rounded toothpicks yet? I wonder what his choice would be. Can we have a thread on that?

But anyway, I'd go with racquetball or, if it's big enough, Jai-Alai.

Woah, what about flavor? Maybe your new President prefers the natural grittiness over mint toothpicks?

Woah, what about flavor? Maybe your new President prefers the natural grittiness over mint toothpicks?

I must know. I really must.

Renaissance Faire - with jousting, royal progresses, falconry, spinning, weaving - and everyone one in authentic period costume.

Hmm. I could extend this to my whole Presidency. My cabinet would have to dress in black velvet doublets, breeches and hose. The White House press corps would be dressed as Landsknechts. The House would dress in English Renaissance middle class garb, the Senate as nobles.

I doubt I would get more than one term, but it would be fun.

"Built like Tarzan, plays like Jane"...I do quite like Tait, and fuck me but he is scary when he's bowling well, but Ricky Ponting was quite funny describing Shaun Tait thus.

Bah, I don't like the prick at all!

I really want SA to win the ODI series as well. I love Duminy, what a player he is.

Can I be your veep?

That's precisely why I wanted to build the mud-pit.;)

Obama will of course actually be turning half of it into a mosque, and the other into a shrine to Karl Marx. Me, well, I'd stop wasting money on a stupid games room, and indeed on the extravagance that is social welfare, and instead divert the saved monies into building a platinum statue of myself on the moon so large that it can be seen by the naked eye.

Bah, I don't like the prick at all!

I really want SA to win the ODI series as well. I love Duminy, what a player he is.

He is a bit good. Frankly, cricket depresses me now; England don't even have the decency to be awful, they're just mediocre. Batsmen with low 40's averages, and bowlers with low 30's at best.

An enormous tabletop gaming table. I'd force the Joint Chiefs to play Warhammer 40k with me, and commission famous artists to paint my models.

An ice rink, just skate the troubles awawawaway.

Bouncy castle. I'd deliver my states of the union address from that room too.

"My fellow Americans, (bounce) This last year has (bounce) been one of ups (bounce) and downs..."

Bouncy castle. I'd deliver my states of the union address from that room too.

"My fellow Americans, (bounce) This last year has (bounce) been one of ups (bounce) and downs..."

Can I be your Vice-president?:D

been one of ups (bounce) and downs..."You're missing the rimshot and the groans from the Press Corps.

hockey rink
giant trampoline
jello/pudding/mud wrestling pit
IMAX theater

A smoking room

Strip club.

So you're going retro-Clinton era?

Private theater/performance hall. I would then abduct actors/playwrights/musicians/mimes/whatever and force them to create and perform new pieces wholly for my enjoyment. Once they had performed for me, I would execute them in order to insure that no one else would ever be able to hear/see what I had.
"But how will you motivate them, Fiddlebottoms?" I hear someone asking. Well, by promising them a quick and painless death if the please me, obviously. If they do not satisfy me, they will be slowly fed into a meat grinder while lemon juice is poured into their eyes and they are gently prodded with a loaf of bread.

"But how will you motivate them, Fiddlebottoms?" I hear someone asking. Well, by promising them a quick and painless death if the please me, obviously. If they do not satisfy me, they will be slowly fed into a meat grinder while lemon juice is poured into their eyes and they are gently prodded with a loaf of bread.

So, if I say that I'm head over heels in love with Satan and all his little wizards, you will remove my testicles with a blunt instrument resembling some kind of gardening tool, but we can't quite make that out, and roast them over a large fire.

Whereas, if I don't admit that I'm head over heels in love with Satan and all his little wizards, you will hold me upside down in a vat of warm marmalade....

...oh, AND remove my testicles with a blunt instrument resembling some kind of gardening tool.

Well in that case, I love Satan....

Oh it's a scythe!

Id get one of those large screens from the Movie Theater, and a Projector, hook up an XBox 360 and pwn some n00blets in Halo 3, lol...


and...maybe think of doing some president stuff....maybe....

An enormous tabletop gaming table. I'd force the Joint Chiefs to play Warhammer 40k with me, and commission famous artists to paint my models.

I'd declare March 4 to be National Dungeons and Dragons Day and have my Vice President DM.

well i've heard its going to be turned into a basketball court. each new president does his own thing with it. its been tennis courts and miniature golf courses. if it was me, i'd build, i'd spend the off hours in my four to eight year term building one hell of a model railroad in there.

so, the thing is, we each have our own space consuming pastimes, so what would each of us, each of the rest of you, turn that space into if you were u.s. president and it was yours to do with?

it is one thing to add a basketball court nothing wrong with it, is another to dismantle the bowling alley that another president had built, that is wrong. Which is it in this case? Have other presidents dismantled what another president had built or have they added to the White House?

each new president does his own thing with it.

It sounds like you are saying other Presidents have dismantled what another President had built.

An enormous tabletop gaming table. I'd force the Joint Chiefs to play Warhammer 40k with me, and commission famous artists to paint my models.

I believe they already do that, only they seem to prefer Risk...


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Unified_Combatant_Commands_map.png/600px-Unified_Combatant_Commands_map.png


Regardless...Orks for the Win, GREEN IS BEST!!!

So, if I say that I'm head over heels in love with Satan and all his little wizards, you will remove my testicles with a blunt instrument resembling some kind of gardening tool, but we can't quite make that out, and roast them over a large fire.

Whereas, if I don't admit that I'm head over heels in love with Satan and all his little wizards, you will hold me upside down in a vat of warm marmalade....

...oh, AND remove my testicles with a blunt instrument resembling some kind of gardening tool.

Well in that case, I love Satan....

Oh it's a scythe!
Very good, Barringtonia. Your swift 80's reference has earned you a relatively quick death by decapitation.
Unfortunately, however, as the material wasn't, technically, your own, I'm afraid I won't be able to allow them to sharpen the blade. It should still get through your neck in 2 or 3 chops, unless you have a really strong spine or something.

well i've heard its going to be turned into a basketball court. each new president does his own thing with it. its been tennis courts and miniature golf courses. if it was me, i'd build, i'd spend the off hours in my four to eight year term building one hell of a model railroad in there.

so, the thing is, we each have our own space consuming pastimes, so what would each of us, each of the rest of you, turn that space into if you were u.s. president and it was yours to do with?

Indoor R/C track, complete with AMB style transponder lap counting system, driver's stand, and pit area. Carpet oval (gray Ozite carpet), with optional infield for road course and (with removable jumps carpeted in the ) off-road.

This is what I'm talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wNyUZElV9M BTW, I have the same model truck (Team Associated RC-18T).

I believe they already do that, only they seem to prefer Risk...


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Unified_Combatant_Commands_map.png/600px-Unified_Combatant_Commands_map.png


Regardless...Orks for the Win, GREEN IS BEST!!!

Sir, you are funny.

Now I'm inviting people over to play Risk. Girls are vicious in that game.

Yay! another airsoft fan!!



Hmmm are you a fellow Brit?? :P

Paintball > Airsoft.

:tongue:

Paintball > Airsoft.

:tongue:

Paintball+Airsoft+Thick Wooded Areas= TEH AWESOMENESS!!!

(especially when you have the Normandy wall set up, lol)

A bowling alley with the bar being replaced with the collection of all the best anime, and then a corner filled with the best novels and poetry of every age and era.

I'd declare March 4 to be National Dungeons and Dragons Day and have my Vice President DM.

What if your VP sucks as a DM?

Very good, Barringtonia. Your swift 80's reference has earned you a relatively quick death by decapitation.
Unfortunately, however, as the material wasn't, technically, your own, I'm afraid I won't be able to allow them to sharpen the blade. It should still get through your neck in 2 or 3 chops, unless you have a really strong spine or something.

In retrospect, it was a silly competition to enter given the reward options.

What if your VP sucks as a DM?

Speaker of the House, obviously. But if he railroads too much we get the Senate pro tempore to do it.