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Street Life

Jul. 2nd, 2006 at 6:22 PM

the_monkey_king

Street life in the U-district is ridiculously good. In the space of 5 minutes, I saw

A pit bull totally entangled in a sapling

A midget, strutting her stuff.

A B-29 flying overhead (split tail, right?)

Waiter comment on the midget? "Oh yeah, she's a regular."

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bdkellmer

Jul. 3rd, 2006 03:14 am (UTC)

'fraid not on the B-29. The B-29 had a standard tail. By split tail, I'm guessing that you mean 2 vertical stabilizers at each end of a wide horizontal stabilizer, but a single fuselage tail? If it had 2 engines, it'd be a B-25 Mitchell, if 4 engines, a B-24 Liberator.

But I agre that life in the U-district is an experience. Lots of interesting things there. (Of course, you wouldn't have mentioned the pitbull tied up in a sapling if you'd been talking about Capitol Hill -- it'd be rude to comment on it's personal sexual choices.)

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wrdnrd

Jul. 3rd, 2006 03:38 am (UTC)

(Of course, you wouldn't have mentioned the pitbull tied up in a sapling if you'd been talking about Capitol Hill -- it'd be rude to comment on it's personal sexual choices.)

Ha! :D

I was amused once by a man in a business suit zipping along on a tangerine-colored Honda Metropolitan scooter. There are so many stories just waiting to be written about The Ave.

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the_monkey_king

Jul. 3rd, 2006 04:18 am (UTC)

I've noticed a lot of scooters lately as well, but some of them are doing the "loud pipes save lives" thing. Conversation-stoppingly loud.

Which is just ridiculous on something with all of 50 or 100 cc, but there you go.

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wrdnrd

Jul. 5th, 2006 05:01 am (UTC)

As gas prices have gone up, there've certainly been a lot of scooters hitting the streets. (Tho' my businessman on his tangerine Metro was ahead of the curve, as i saw him at least 2 years ago.) I'll never understand loud pipes on *anything,* let alone a scooter, but that's because i'm sensitive to noise. It's not the weirdest thing i've seen done to a scooter, tho' -- you should see the scooter "choppers" in my scooter magazines.

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the_monkey_king

Jul. 3rd, 2006 04:17 am (UTC)

I knew somebody would be a plane expert!

Yes, 2 vert stabilizers at each end, and a 4 engine plane, so a B-25 Mitchell then. It was flying fairly low, so I got a good look. Only in a Boeing town ...

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the_monkey_king

Jul. 3rd, 2006 02:03 pm (UTC)

Re: Dude

5 o'clock, maybe 5:30. I'm guessing it was practice for some kind of 4th of July thing: you mean there was more than one of these passing by?

Oh, and awesome icon.

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