i kill myself sometimes...

[acroyear]

on a discussion of "Elaborate Mediocrity", someone mentioned the Mormon Temple, to which i clarified:

Re: The Mormon temple in Bethesda, MD - for those who don't travel the DC beltway on a daily/weekly basis, think the "Emerald City of Oz" peaking up 200 feet above the trees, with a golden Jesus at the top of the spire holding a golf club out and yelling "fore!" to the east, and you'll have it.

The traffic reporters still refer to one of the bridges over the beltway as the "Surrender Dorothy Bridge" (thanks to some now painted out letters a graffiti artist put there years ago).

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The fun one was when it was painted on, and they sent guys out with a sand-blaster to scour off the letters. Well, the sand-blaster guys scoured off the letters. Just the letters. So they had "Surrender Dorothy" written on the bridge in bare metal! That lasted a while before they got the sand-blaster back out to clean off the entire panels.

Doc