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Newseum tickets: $20

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by buckweaver, Feb 7, 2008.

  1. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    If I'm paying $20, I better see animitronic parents complaining that their gymnastics kid works just as hard as the basketball players. You could make it interactive, complete with seven audio buttons to push for full effect:

    A. "You're costing my daughter a scholarship."
    B. "How am I supposed to put a two paragraph 'story' in my scrapbook?"
    C. "Gymnastics is the biggest sport during the Olympics, are you out of touch?"
    D. "You don't root enough for the home team, don't you know you're shirking your public relations duty?"
    E. "You don't fail to report our falling test scores, but God forbid you report my daughter's fourth place in the paralell bars."
    F. "I don't care if the coach isn't calling it in, if you covered the sport the way it deserves he wouldn't need to."
    G. "Fuck you, I'm cancelling my subscription and I'm telling every other parent to do the same. You'll know our wrath when you get your paycheck, Mr. Basketball Asshole!"
     
  2. dreunc1542

    dreunc1542 Active Member

    I've never been to the Holocaust Museum but last year I did get to go to Auschwitz for a day. Nothing I've ever done in my life came close to moving me like that, the cab ride back with five people was completely silent the whole way to Krakow.
     
  3. jakewriter82

    jakewriter82 Active Member

    Now I'd pay $20 to see that.
     
  4. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Ditto.

    We ended up with one of the kids attached to mom and the other with me.

    My 10-year-old said, "This place makes me not feel so good."

    "That's kind of the idea," I said.

    A must-see, though.

    Newseum, not so much, I fear, at $20 a pop. There's more free stuff than you can do in a week in Washington.
     
  5. Oggiedoggie

    Oggiedoggie Well-Known Member

    Our super-cool online dude says to just save your money.

    In a few years, all newspapers will be in museums.
     
  6. wickedwritah

    wickedwritah Guest

    Holocaust Museum is one of the few places I've left tremendously moved by what I saw/heard/read.

    Newseum won't be in my future, unless my unemployment office gives me free passes after the paper shuts down.
     
  7. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member

    Oh, need to hear more about this.
     
  8. Captain_Kirk

    Captain_Kirk Well-Known Member

    Probably intended that way.
     
  9. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    It's Al Neuharth's baby.
     
  10. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Metropolitan Museum of Art $20 and you get to see Rodin's Gates of Hell
    Newseum $20 and you get to see an IBM Selectric from the old Washington Star's metro desk
     
  11. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member


    Oh, groan.
     
  12. Mystery_Meat

    Mystery_Meat Guest

    The exhibits will be short and not jump from one room to another, they'll all follow Real Life, Real News principles and roughly 30 percent of the cafeteria's menu will be pies.
     
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