Posted on 01/09/2008 11:47:00 AM PST by steve-b
For the last seven years, a renegade group of anti-pants New Yorkers have held an annual No Pants Subway Ride event, which last year attracted over 200 participants. In 2006, it even garnered several arrests. And now a Facebook group has popped up promoting a copycat event here on D.C.'s Metro this Saturday, Jan. 12.
The proposed event, scheduled from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, currently has 82 confirmed guests on Facebook and another 140 people who are listed as maybes. The organizers, Elizabeth Ody and Richard Julian, are asking anyone who'd like to ride Metro without pants this weekend to show up at 4 p.m. on Saturday at the Dupont Circle fountain (please wear pants to the rally point), where they'll get you organized into groups and send you off to different Metro lines in an attempt to blanket the rail system with the pantsless.
On the one hand, we're not so sure this event will be as popular here as it is in New York City, given this town's slight penchant for buttoned-up-ness. On the other, the social organizing possibilities of sites like Facebook mean there could be a lot more people without pants popping up on Metro this Saturday than we might normally expect. Either way, we hope at least a few of you DCist photographers will stop by to capture the event it all its bare-legged glory.
When it’s topless riding, let me know.
I think my caution would probably apply double (so to speak) in that case....
Do they were kilts?
No shorts also?....won’t get robbed.
Yeah, you’re probably right.
My husband was so excited that there were topless beaches in Mexico when we were on our honeymoon. Boy did he get an eyeful. European grandmothers with sagging mammaries littered the beach. He gagged!
And riders who choose to be normally attired should be advised to bring a container of Clorox wipes after 4:00 p.m.
They have no idea how staph is transferred.
It’ll probably be a sausage festival
You know, if there's one time when you wouldn't need a topless beach nearby...
So if you HAVE to go on the Metro, bring lysol spray before you sit down.
Yeah this will draw out the queers big time.
If there’s one time you don’t need ANYTHING nearby....
I hope the crazy homeless woman I see every morning on the Metro won’t try this. “Morning...Express...Have a nice day.”
How about this: a few hours before the event begins, spray all the Metro seats with Icy-Hot.
My wife and I went to Mallorca on our honeymoon, and we stayed in the Scandinavian quarter...it was quite pleasant. However, I had lost or broken my glasses, and am blind without them. As we approached the bathing area, it began to dawn on me, and as I turned to my wife, she was pulling her top off...:)
When in Rome...
Why is it that the very people who SHOULDN’T go nude, are usually the ones who do?
Most of these people are ones lacking a true central, core identity. They’re all desparate to prove themselves to “be somebody”.
The lights aren’t on and nobody’s home.
Meeting in DuPont Circle, yes! Ground Zero for the gay scene in D.C.
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