Tuesday, November 04, 2008

most historical in history

Is 'historical' even a word? It is in the dictionary but it still sounds wrong. "Historic" makes sense to me. Adding the '-al' at the end just sounds made up. It's not. Like I said before, it is in the dictionary. Doesn't mean I have to like it.

Anyhow... is this really the most "historic election" in history of all known history for historians? I disagree. Different? Milestony? (I can make up words, too!) Sure. But the most historical in history? Probably not. To be honest, the most historational election in my opinion occurred when good ol' GW (that's George Washington for those of you who know president's initials, not George Wallace who was never President or even Gail Weathers who was only president of the elementary school PTA) stepped down and admitted that the job sucks, it was more fun to go home to a farm overlooking a beautiful river, and it was someone else's turn to suffer in the position. John Adams, you sucker.

I guess there are some points worthy of making this election historical for historians of history. It is the first election where Starbucks is offering free, illegal coffee just for voting.

And as a shout-out to all the morons who waited in hours-long lines to vote early, it only took us 40 minutes from getting in line at the polls to getting in line at the local Starbucks to pay for a non-free coffee. And the voting line was significantly shorter (about half as long) when we left the polls.

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