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HIDDEN PUZZLES

January 14, 2009

Upscale D.C. Steakhouse Features Vulgar Hand Gestures

by Sara K. Smith  

Fancy fancy steak-eatersOh hey looky here, Barack Obama (not pictured) went to Bobby Van’s last week! Anybody see anything weird about this picture?

You type emails to your mother with that hand?

Oh. Oh dear. (Thank you Wrongavore for the tip!)

Rearranging the Tables in Washington: Can Obama’s Coattails Reach to Restaurants? [New York Times]

{ 55 comments }

Gopherit January 14, 2009 at 12:02 pm

Is that AMC?

chascates January 14, 2009 at 12:02 pm

Is that Liz replying to another would-be suitor?

CollegeStudent January 14, 2009 at 12:03 pm

It’s all white people?

teebob2000 January 14, 2009 at 12:03 pm

“Anybody see anything weird about this picture?”

You mean aside from the vertigo-inducing, villain’s-lair-from-the-old-Batman-teevee-series-type camera angle?

Mista Eko January 14, 2009 at 12:04 pm

Waldo’s missing shoe?

AngryBlakGuy January 14, 2009 at 12:04 pm

…of course Barack Obama wasn’t there, otherwise that purse in the foreground would be gone!

ManchuCandidate January 14, 2009 at 12:06 pm

[re=218432]CollegeStudent[/re]:
My thoughts exactly.

bfstevie January 14, 2009 at 12:06 pm

Do vegetarian Republicans deny that they’re vegetarians?

Lascauxcaveman January 14, 2009 at 12:08 pm

[re=218429]Gopherit[/re]: That’s what I’m thinking. AMC loaded up on good bourbon, trying to start a proper barfight.

finallyhappy January 14, 2009 at 12:08 pm

The same people in the picture are having that stupid “ball” in Georgetown?

ph7 January 14, 2009 at 12:08 pm

Anybody see anything weird about this picture?

YES! Why is my wife talking to that strange man after she told me she had to work late???

Min January 14, 2009 at 12:09 pm

Someone left her purse unattended on a table? In D.C.?!?

Colander January 14, 2009 at 12:10 pm

[re=218442]ph7[/re]: I think she knows you’re watching.

BillyClubb January 14, 2009 at 12:10 pm

“Anybody see anything weird about this picture?”

Yeah, the people in the picture seem to be enjoying themselves, which is quite rare these days.

AliBabaInBA January 14, 2009 at 12:11 pm

HE: “Hey, maybe you just haven’t been with the right guy.” (“Yeah, I may be diminutive but I’m a lawyer and she’s got to love the leather,” he adds to himself.)
She:
He: “Whoa, there’s a client — gotta go (wink).”

lenorecutie January 14, 2009 at 12:11 pm

[re=218432]CollegeStudent[/re]: That’s what I thought it was going to be, too.

Mr Blifil January 14, 2009 at 12:11 pm

This picture brings up painful memories.

Monsieur Grumpe January 14, 2009 at 12:16 pm

I think we’re going to be seeing a lot more of this kind gesturing in the near future. Now that Dickhead Cheney is going to be let loose in the real world he’ll no doubt be bumping into real world people. Just like that dentist in New Orleans after Katrina, I predict we’ll all be enthusiastically greeting the Dark One with a soaring mono digit and a hearty “Hey Cheney, fuck you!” Can’t wait.

The Cold Sea January 14, 2009 at 12:21 pm

AMC at Bobby Van’s? Must be networking.

Wrongavore January 14, 2009 at 12:23 pm

Good arugula at this place I hear.

Servo January 14, 2009 at 12:23 pm

I love it when bar women sign dirty.

Heywood Floyd January 14, 2009 at 12:24 pm

The handbag in the foreground is clearly a YSL knock-off. TACKY!

Tommy Says Ira G is a Tool January 14, 2009 at 12:24 pm

Pah, the NYT started flipping the bird with Judy Miller and hiring Kristol so what’s a little photographic evidence?

Trace January 14, 2009 at 12:24 pm

Fuck me? No, no. Fuck YOU, picture guy.

randomsausage January 14, 2009 at 12:24 pm

Looks like the kind of joint Spitzer would visit to pick up a high class hooker or two. What’s the address?

Mr Blifil January 14, 2009 at 12:26 pm

[re=218459]The Cold Sea[/re]: That conclusion seemed so obvious as to be absurd, so I immediately discounted it. But now y’all are making me think it’s her.

golliwog January 14, 2009 at 12:27 pm

There’s like a 3:1 ratio of men to women. The nice lady using sign language realized that too.

Deepthroat January 14, 2009 at 12:27 pm

they’re not wearing burlap sacks and eating skewered alley cat?

Fly Over Girl January 14, 2009 at 12:28 pm

The lazy fucks haven’t taken down the Christmas decorations.

Where is the Hopey? Did whitey send him to the kitchens?

Servo January 14, 2009 at 12:28 pm

Wait, I know that one. That’s Houlihan’s for “I’m busy”.

WadISay January 14, 2009 at 12:29 pm

Looks like AMC telling Mark Penn to go in bathroom and do hisself.

MathewBrooks January 14, 2009 at 12:30 pm

Where is Maude Flanders when you need someone something innocuous to be whipped into a FULL SCALE MORAL PANIC!?!?!

jagorev January 14, 2009 at 12:34 pm

It’s a streetlight.

Servo January 14, 2009 at 12:35 pm

Thanks to the young lady’s blunt response to his inquiries, some other lady is now in a shallow grave somewhere in the Maryland woods.

WadISay January 14, 2009 at 12:40 pm

If someone were to cry out, “Douchebag! Is there a douchebag in the house?”, watch the stampede.

Mustang January 14, 2009 at 12:47 pm

That bar look like the Island of Lonely Men. Like that woman didn’t know she’d get hit on sitting at that bar?

shortsshortsshorts January 14, 2009 at 12:56 pm

The LNS olds all go there. Barry is their leader.

Hart88 January 14, 2009 at 12:57 pm

must be a PUMA

JadedDIssonance January 14, 2009 at 12:59 pm

I don’t see any steak.

Servo January 14, 2009 at 1:06 pm

The line for Larry Craig’s stall has spilled into the bar.

Woodwards Friend January 14, 2009 at 1:06 pm

[re=218435]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: Boom baby!

nolo January 14, 2009 at 1:09 pm

Those Bitches at the NYT have altered the photo already.

jamietre January 14, 2009 at 1:14 pm

Actually they didn’t just photoshop it, they outright replaced it with another, far less hilarious shot taken a moment later. But now we can see the face of the goon who was getting the finger before.

jamietre January 14, 2009 at 1:19 pm

… and luckily, whatever lame CMS the New York Times is using, probably makes it too confusing for unpaid interns to delete images once they’ve been uploaded.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/01/14/dining/14power2_650.jpg

TGY January 14, 2009 at 1:25 pm

“What would you say to a little fuck?”

“Uh…’hello, little fuck’?”

randomsausage January 14, 2009 at 1:28 pm

This looks like a place where Cougars roam. I can see Mdm Pennington of Nooningshire alighting here from a horseless carriage. Perhaps for a nightcap — a Gin Buck or a Queen’s Park Swizzle — following the latest Ibsen opening.

Capitol Hillbilly January 14, 2009 at 1:42 pm

Big deal. Moby Grape did it 42 years ago.

Mr Blifil January 14, 2009 at 2:06 pm

[re=218544]randomsausage[/re]: Nightcap? If by nightcap you mean sucking off a team of busboys and drinking the splooge from a shot glass. There won’t be any Ibsen in DC for a while either, but this spring there will be gay, gay, witty, gay Noel Coward.

Dashboard_Buddha January 14, 2009 at 3:01 pm

I <3 AMC

WIDTAP January 14, 2009 at 3:44 pm

Liz! Liz! A simple “no thank you” is sufficient. You don’t have to tell every young man where to cram it.

tiger January 14, 2009 at 4:34 pm

Looks like what i left 15 yrs ago. A dingy gay bar.

HuddledMass January 14, 2009 at 4:38 pm

[re=218453]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: That guy calling out “Fuck you, Mr. Cheney, Fuck you,” in New Orleans was one or the high points of my political life, and I trust he was also flipping Darth off.

mylesfromnowhere January 14, 2009 at 4:44 pm

Honest mistake…she just thought the photographer was with PJTV.

abirato January 14, 2009 at 5:54 pm

[re=218489]Hart88[/re]: She can’t be a PUMA, she can count too high and she’s not fat enough.

SpikeyDog January 14, 2009 at 10:53 pm

Wrong? Looks like your typical Gay Bar to me. Old trolls cruising for a DC twink, and a few fag hags thrown in.

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