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Wednesday, April 27, 2005
An Interesting Item From ...
... the Associated Press (via Salon):
President Bush drew laughs from his audience Tuesday when he asked whether the Galveston area still hosts "Splash Day."
The annual beach party that dates to the 1950s does live on -- but now as an unofficial gay and lesbian event.
In town to speak about Social Security, Bush told the crowd: "I want to thank the mayor for being here -- Lyda Ann Thomas greeted me coming in. I said, 'Do you still have Splash Day?"'
The crowd laughed. "You have to be a baby boomer to know what I'm talking about," Bush said. The crowd laughed again.
Splash Day once marked the end of school and the beginning of summertime fun. The city backed off from it many years ago when it turned a little too wild, says Christy Benson of the Galveston Chamber of Commerce. It later became a party day for gays and lesbians.
Drawing another round of laughter, Bush said: "I'm not saying whether I came or not on Splash Day. I'm just saying, 'Do you have Splash Day?"'
Please, dear God, let there be videotape.
April 27, 2005 at 07:18 AM | Permalink
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Scrutiny Hooligans had this to say: "I'm not saying whether George W. Bush attended Splash Day, but it's probably worth asking some of the older celebrants if they ever noticed a certain intoxicated, unibrowed, prep school boy with oodles of bon vivant traipsing among the queens and the debauched."
Posted by: Screwy Hoolie at Apr 29, 2005 10:26:33 AM
