Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss

Dinner with the Prez? Walk right in...

0 views
Skip to first unread message

Joker

unread,
Nov 26, 2009, 12:31:46 PM11/26/09
to
Polo playing rich folk crash White House dinner. Ah, for the high-
life. Oh, and I hear there may be some openings on the White House
security staff in the near future...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/25/state.dinner.crashers/index.html

ML

unread,
Nov 26, 2009, 2:00:01 PM11/26/09
to

Do they train you?
Where do I send my resume?

Sorry, Joker.

bzl...@aaool.com

unread,
Nov 26, 2009, 4:16:23 PM11/26/09
to

These folks are rather infamous in the home area. He almost sold the
family winery to Shaq a few years ago; iirc one of the lawsuits
between him and his father nixed that. They like promoting rip-off
polo events, where you get charged a lot of money but don't get food
or latrine facilities. Lovely people.

Kelly Humphries

unread,
Nov 26, 2009, 9:45:19 PM11/26/09
to
Joker <joke...@gmail.com> wrote:

At least the dude who crashed all those Super Bowls was there to help
carry the load...

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=superbowlmoments100

# 88
Hey, Tom, who is that guy?

Super Bowl XII: The Super Bowl has legendary gate-crashers like Skipper
McNally, who helped carry Chiefs coach off after winning Super IV, but
nobody beats Dion Rich, who has snuck into more than 30 Super Bowls, and
is pictured here carrying Tom Landry off the field after the Cowboys beat
the Broncos.

annoying

unread,
Nov 27, 2009, 12:51:37 AM11/27/09
to
The Super Bowl...A White house State Dinner.....hmmmm
If we cannot secure the White House, how can we secure anything?

Garry the Island Boy

unread,
Nov 28, 2009, 2:16:51 PM11/28/09
to

. . . and who says they lied to get in?
sometimes just looking the part fits the ticket. . .

G.

3jane.

unread,
Nov 28, 2009, 2:36:08 PM11/28/09
to
> These folks are rather infamous in the home area.  He almost sold the
> family winery to Shaq a few years ago; iirc one of the lawsuits
> between him and his father nixed that.  They like promoting rip-off
> polo events, where you get charged a lot of money but don't get food
> or latrine facilities. Lovely people.

They're total dipshits and most people around here has known it for a
while. Sadly, these are the kind of people this swampy provincial
backwater of a town attracts, although these were technically courtesy
of our neighbors to the south. Apparently federal felony charges are
being considered, that would make it so much more worthwhile.

volkfolk

unread,
Nov 28, 2009, 9:06:00 PM11/28/09
to

That's it in a nutshell. You show up dressed for the event, looking
like you belong, and acting like you belong and you can go almost
anywhere. It's all in your attitude. The old cliche about if you've
got a clipboard you can go almost anywhere is true.

They showed up and nobody questioned it because who would think that
anybody would have the balls enough to try to crash a state dinner.
They didn't "lie" because they were introduced as themselves. They
were even annouced as they walked in to go through the receiving line.

And as the Secret Service pointed out, nobody was ever in any danger
because everybody has to go throught physical pat downs and a metal
detector.

Scot

JimK

unread,
Nov 28, 2009, 11:15:56 PM11/28/09
to

I'm not trying to make a bigger deal out of it than it was, but I
assume they did have silverware at this dinner, including knives.

JimK

Andrew

unread,
Nov 28, 2009, 11:35:59 PM11/28/09
to

Nope... All jello and mashed potatoes...

volkfolk

unread,
Nov 29, 2009, 10:41:30 AM11/29/09
to

Good point, although I suspect that even at a State Dinner Obama's
Secret Service Detail was never more than a couple of feet away and
packing serious firepower.

Not to diminish what these folks did, but they're nothing more than
publicity hounds.

Scot

Seth Buttock

unread,
Nov 29, 2009, 11:08:45 AM11/29/09
to

Scot buddy, is your "spellcheck" broken? I think more of this couple
than I do people who don't use "spellcheck."

We're "throught" here.

HTH

Seth Buttock

unread,
Nov 29, 2009, 11:10:10 AM11/29/09
to

I think more of publicity hounds than I do people who unnecessarily
capitalize words. It's all in the "Details" bro.

HTH

Garry the Island Boy

unread,
Nov 29, 2009, 12:00:56 PM11/29/09
to

See, there is a reason I consider you a friend. . .

G.

Joker

unread,
Nov 29, 2009, 12:11:44 PM11/29/09
to

The Secret Service would *have* to say that because right now they
look like slapped asses.

3jane.

unread,
Nov 29, 2009, 5:24:38 PM11/29/09
to

> The Secret Service would *have* to say that because right now they
> look like slapped asses.-

Apparently the "invitees" offered the networks interviews for "several
hundred thousand dollars" and were shut down, most notably by CNN/
Larry King after they were scheduled to be on. You gots to love this
town, never a dull moment. Boy would I like to see these people in
jail.

Joker

unread,
Nov 29, 2009, 5:57:09 PM11/29/09
to

Attributions are kind of messed up there, my bad...

0 new messages