12.22.2008

An Open Letter to Director Catoe

Dear Metro Director Catoe-

WTF.

I just came across the news that Metro isn't going to participate in Google's transit project because it feels that it can make more money doing it by itself.

Uhhhh, what? The old Metro site looked like it was designed with a etch-a-sketch and the new one, while looking all web 2.0, doesn't offer anything new. Like maps. Of bus routes. Which would look really good on GOOGLE MAPS.

What is this, 1940? Does Metro also have a division that makes its own rubber stamps? Outsouce, Catoe, outsource!

The thing that really makes me want to start punching people in the face is that metro wants to make money off showing me it's product. This isn't porn, people. I wouldn't buy my weekly groceries in a black trash bag marked "For Your Piehole", and I shouldn't have to buy my transit the same way.

Hey Catoe! How bouts we leave the webbertubing to the experts over at the big G? And maybe you get busy, say digging some more tunnels toward the airport?

Love,
The Badger King

PS. Seriously. Towards the airport. Start digging.

13 comments:

  1. with regard to my minimal capitalization, this may be the pot calling the kettle black, but Badger, pick a book on punctuation. you start with "WTF." i'm fairly certain that while this is a rhetorical question, and it uses silly tubes-speak, it should still be followed by a question mark. the ending isn't any better than the beginning.

    i'm pretty sure that the content is more or less what most of us are thinking. i cant fault that, its just that punctuation is intended to be an aide to understanding, not an encumbrance.

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  2. The rules of grammar do not apply to the Badger King.

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  3. Dano: YAWN. Could you write a longer sentence? At least Badger writes something we want to read. You - not so much.

    Badger: Agreed. DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG!!!!

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  4. Dear Badger King,

    I [heart] you.

    Sincerely,
    marybindc

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  5. Badger,

    You're channeling Rusty with this "Why I Hate Metro" crusade.... I don't hate Metro so much as the people ON the Metro. I want to rape and kill them.

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  6. dano,

    many writers would also criticize you for using a comma following such coordinating conjunctions as and, but and or.

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  7. Frak the airport tunnels. Why do I have to go all the way through Downtown to get from Silver Spring to Rockville?

    How about we dig for the purple line instead? And remind me again why I'm paying $5 for a piece of plastic Metro can use to track my movements around the city?

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  8. Woodstock is on point. Purple line is a must.

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  9. Woodstock,

    The plastic card is so know they don't need the plastic purple line. Since most people who need to go from Silver Spring to Rockville make the sensible decision to drive, it shows they don't need one. The rational response to a lack of supply somehow proves the lack of demand. Fucktards.

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  10. "Since most people who need to go from Silver Spring to Rockville make the sensible decision to drive, it shows they don't need one. The rational response to a lack of supply somehow proves the lack of demand. Fucktards"


    Absolutely untrue.

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  11. You ever take the Metro bus from Bethesda to Silver Spring? That's no solution either....

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  12. WMATA's energies are devoted to scoring innauguration tickets from Marion Barry before he scalps them.

    Give WMATA time. I'm sure that they will do the right thing.

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