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It’s the wedding spectacular of the year! And here’s the real true invitation, courtesy of our own fancy monocle-wearing top-hat-sporting Comics Curmudgeon, who is attending as a special guest of lonely Jill Biden. Click to see the whole thing in all of its oversized, overwrought glory.
So all i gotta do is print this on card stock and show up?
I’ll believe it WHEN THEY PRODUCE A CERTIFICATE OF LIVE MARRIAGE!!!!!1!111!!!
So Obama admits his middle initial is “H” —
WHAT ELSE are he and Rev Wright not telling us?
‘Inauguration’? Is that a fancy city name for two fellas gettin’ hitched?
I want to see pictures of the gift registry card.
DC as in AC/DC?
fortunately, eHow has tips on gay Inauguration gifts.
http://www.ehow.com/how_2122002_buy-gifts-gay-wedding.html
That is a lovely sight. (good going, Curmudgeon! enjoy.)
I expect that the bride will be wearing a Muslin dress.
i think some blingee would be appropriate on this.
These are being printed on the floor above my office and if I can chug enough Canadian Club between now and five, I’m storming up there and demanding one (by which I mean stealing ten and selling them to RiverDaughter).
Uh, hello, no time or location? They obviously give these to the people they DON’T want to show up. This is the “well, crap, we have to invite them but we don’t want them to come” version. The real guests will get a sexy personal note from Barry on scented stationery.
Coulter’s probably pissed he didn’t spell his name B. Heussien Obama..
I know I’m going to cry when I see Biden walking down the aisle to Pachebel’s Canon. He will be a beautiful bride.
FreshCliches: Yup! Was a notary present!!?! AND was it actually notarized!!!1! !
You know, if you turn it upside-down and squint, that crest is a dead ringer for the turkey decapatation backdrop that whatzername became famous for.
Barack H. Obama
I wonder what the ‘H.’ stands for.
Wait, is that a real invitation? Because I got one of those too… Can I actually go?
This is obviously a fraud. Everyone knows gay couples have to get married at bed and breakfasts in Vermont.
I got one of those today, too.
You left out the best part: It came with a souvenir catalog.
They should have printed the invitation to say B. HUSSEIN Obama. You fail, inauguration committee!!
So you’re saying Josh dresses like Mr Peanut? I thought folks stopped with top hats after JFK? Will spats return too?
bitchincamaro: Hell, right side up, it sorta resembles a winged fire hydrant.
Hostile Michigander: Mine’s already framed. Barack makes me feel so special and warm in my lady parts.
Presumptious.
I’m confused! Which city of Washington should I go to? If they told which state I might be able to figure it out. I guess I’ll stay in Arlington until this question is answered.
Live Marriage? That’s much better than the dead marriages I’ve grown so used to.
I got one too, I think everyone who gave $$$ to Barry (and I gave like $500, maybe, so you don’t have to be a Bush Ranger or whatever W. called it) got one.
Obvs a Shotgun weddin.
They sent me one too. Where do I show up?
Yup, I got mine today too- means nada. I also got my volunteer assignment- I will be using my body as a carpet so the First family’s feet do not touch the ground at any time during the 20th. Actually, my organizer(commandante) called me but I have to wait for the official training to find out what lousy assignment I have(it is outside during the 20th downtown- I think I will be shoveling poo from the Tidal Basin)
Packherd: I wonder what the ‘H.’ stands for.
“Saddam”.
Gah, it is totally unreadable and fancy-pantsy. I don’t care if invitations always look like that, use some kind of fucking copperplate or Trajan if you want to impress me. Fifteen-billion movie trailers can’t be wrong.
USE SCRIPT FONTS SPARINGLY, people.
That is all.
Tommmcatt: If you want any girlz to come, you have to use script. Wait til you see Hillary’s invitation to her coronation at the State Department. You’ll have to get glasses.
Mine just arrived!!! What will I wear?
Step 1: Print above picture.
Step 2: Sell for Swedish lessons from real live girl from Sweden.
Step 3: Profit!
Doglessliberal:
You’ll know it’s the real thing by the tantalizing odor of High Karate….
I just got one of this at home and am still confused. Is this a real ticket or a just a thing that they send you because you contributed to/worked in the campaign? I did not buy a ticket and I am by no means related to any Washington lobby, so I guess that it’s more like a thank-you note.
Diefenbaked: If you’re selling them to riverdaugther, shouldn’t you cut Jenn and Moonsong (morningsong? whatever lame old hippie name she was) in on the deal?
OT–Madame Sarkozy is singing her top single in the background and, boy howdy, if I were a man, I would be masturbating furiously. Good grief is she a sexy, sexy la femme. La first lady is so fucking hot, no wonder le president is full of himself.
GD’it. This Bell’s Palsy tricks me into thinking my eye is shut when it isn’t and I just fucking wiped my cornea. It’s hurts like a motherfucker so, since no one is interested in this thread, anyway, and everyone but I is out having a life on Friday night, (and, admittedly, I just took a hydrcodone and feel pretty full of myself, myself) I’m going to fucking come out and say what’s on my mind:
Lula rocks and that dickhead from the Czech Rep is going to fuckup the EU completely if someone doesn’t find a way to stop him. Le President, you’ve got the hot chick wife–ice him!
Talk amongst yourselves.
Is this just to make me feel bad ‘cuz I didn’t (damn, the cat is sitting on my hand and I can’t type. One of the five cats, that is.)
As I was saying, is this just to make me feel bad because I didn’t get one? Punishment for those of us who live in the moronic state where all the counties voted for McCain? WTF? Do I get nothing for my $200? Because, you know, I have hungry pet mouths to feed and am poor as a church mouse and– fuck, the cat just ate the church mouse.
I need to fill up the dishes again.
Fuck. I turned on the television and it’s two people arguing about whether it’s anti-semitic to say that maybe it’s not right to starve the Palestinians to death. I’m going back to Madame Sarkozy.
This gives me a clue for the meaning of the H on the souvenir certificate of live birth I bought in the Holy Land. “Jesus H. Christ, born on Thor’s Day, the twenty fifth of December, zero, in the City of David.
Fellas, ladies, this is not a ticket. It’s an inviTATION, to come and stand on the Mall with 2 million other invitees, and watch our first Muslin-terrorist, non-citizen, mulatto preznit place his right hand on the Koran and solemnly state, “Baruch Adonai, Eluhenu. Today, I am a man.”
There will be 10 jumbotrons along the Mall, 1 portajon per 350 people, frostbite, and random patdowns by aging, portly National Guardsmen. How can you turn that down?
DustBowlBlues: I’m so with you on the Klaus as dunderheaded EU prez for the next 6 months. He is an embarassment to his subjects in CZ and the entire EU community. He’s got his head further up his arse than Bush when it comes to the environment and global warming. His days are numbered and my CZ sources tell me the next prez of the Republic will be the guy with the dual US/CZ citizenship, currently teaching Econ at U of Mich. Hope and change may be catching on.
Easy on the palsey meds and the scotch. We need Yooooo.
Jesus fuckin’ Christ, are y’all actually discussing the EU presidency like it matters outside the Eurochatterocracy? Go drink some beers and give a hobo a buck, for cryi, and interact with the actual world.
Godot: So did I.
Do we frame it and demand entrance to all the balls?
Lazy Media: Mmmmm, Czech beer.
Why isn’t Biden a “Jr.” but not Obama?
MORE EVIDENCE OF HIS FALSIFIED SPACE-BIRTH!!
As a former graphic designer, and a married woman, i have to say - that is a most unfortunate choice of font.
This is just a “suitable for framing” non-vitation from the Obama committee. Thanks for your money, show this to your friends, please God just watch the damn thing on TV and do NOT come to DC…
finallyhappy: Wow. Good luck. Volunteer “training” will be awful. There will be a 23 year old with a bluetooth headset telling you to show up at 6 a.m. and you must be there at 6 a.m. or you will not receive your credentials and you will not be allowed to work and will be cast into the pit of Metro. Buh-bye.
smellyal8r: I know- that is how some of the volunteer work was during the election. One time, I had made phone calls sitting on the floor for 2 hours(and I am more than AARP eligible)then I went to look for a bathroom - and some punk organizer wanted to tell me I couldn’t come into the “office” until I checked in. I believe I said “Yeah, well I need to pee now!”.
I also like that the instructions say I am to wear “business casual” for the training- because showing my style will be important when I am detailed to the Mall with 10 trillion tourists in Obama stocking caps and sweatshirts.
OK, can we have some more analysis of this “invitation”? I noticed that:
-the kearning is slightly off
-invitations printed in 2008-9 typically specified if someone is a negroid, which was the common term at the time.
-In proper Bahasa Indonesian pronunciation ‘H’ can be interpreted as an insult - the name should be spelled in full
-it was not “Union Made”
Until these and other questions are answered, I think we have an Unconsitutional usurper on our hands.
There actually are 50 stars in the circle, and “inauguration” is spelled correctly. I am highly suspicious that anyone in DC is capable of putting out such a high-class engraved document. Looks more like the work of Snakey, whose plates used to be used by the Treasury Agent school to show how some engravers’ work was too good to be real US money. Snakey wound up making false teeth, because his probation officer got too anxious if he worked for a jeweler. Unfortunately, his teeth looked too good to be real, too — my dad had a set — but lucky for Snakey, there was no statute.
Is it “civil union” in the District of Columbia? Or the more traditional “just roommates”?
Josh,
Let me be your date and we can wear matching prom gowns.
I got one today along with an ad for commemorative plates and shit like that. If one of you wants it I’ll put it in the mail. I am proud to say I never go to DC in the winter no matter who wins unless it’s me. Let’s go to Trinadad instead. I’m having my guts removed next Tuesday but should be fit to fly by the 20th and since I have very low vitamin D level I should be able to get my insurance to pay for some sunny time. Who’s with me??
uh that logo is totally a cock and balls with feet
WHY CAN’T WE TALK ABOUT HIS MIDDLE INITIAL
Is it H for Hamas or Hezbullah?
102415: Amen. January in DC is a miserable time of year regardless of who’s getting sworn in. Last time (I was living there then) it was bitter cold and had kinda rained (the day after the Inaugural came a foot of snow) but folks showed up at my apartment to watch on the teevee since they’d tried it for an hour at the Capitol and bailed. Leave this to fatcats with a seat and a space heater…Have fun in the sun…
First dance will be Coldplay’s Yellow for obvious reasons.
Gayz are allowed to get married in DC? I thought W would have remembered to prioritize banning it given the lack of other important events going on.
Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you,
And everything you do,
Yeah, they were all yellow.
I came along,
I wrote a song for you,
And all the things you do,
And it was called yellow.
So then I took my turn,
Oh what a thing to have done,
And it was all yellow.
Your skin
Oh yeah, your skin and bones,
Turn into something beautiful,
You know, you know I love you so,
You know I love you so.
I swam across,
I jumped across for you,
Oh what a thing to do.
Cos you were all yellow.
I drew a line,
I drew a line for you,
Oh what a thing to do,
And it was all yellow.
Your skin,
Oh yeah your skin and bones,
Turn into something beautiful,
And you know for you,
I’d bleed myself dry for you,
I’d bleed myself dry.
Its true, look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine for,
Look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine.
Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you,
And all the things that you do.
Chuckie Jesus: Am I gay because I like Coldplay or do I like Coldplay because I’m gay? The ongoing conundrum…
Attend and participate? Cool! Does this mean I get to hold the Koran? To administer the oath, inshallah? Is my soundproof suite at the Mayflower ready for me? I’m all set to go.
Yes, lots of us who gave $$$ got one…and if you read the accompanying paper it says that you’re invited to attend the PUBLIC events. Ha ha. Like, thanks for inviting me to the city of D.C., Barry. Didn’t know you owned it?
Fuck that question mark. ‘Twas a mistake.