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| When History paused, sometime between 2009 and 2016. Via Courts of the World. |
Four Dorics pic.twitter.com/D2vcNoron6
— Yas Just a Lightweight (@Yastreblyansky) December 8, 2020
Four Dorics beat Two Corinthians.
— Unnamed Democrat (@UnnamedDem) December 8, 2020
That was the "Pony Shed", a maintenance building that used to be used by Park Service workers, which had to be removed in order to preserve history by inserting this tiny orchid conservatory, or gigantic changing room, or whatever it is. https://t.co/7Wu57lK4p3
— Yas Just a Lightweight (@Yastreblyansky) December 8, 2020
Yes! It's to remind us all of what it looked like under the old régime, when colors were invisible and the building didn't exist!
— Yas Just a Lightweight (@Yastreblyansky) December 8, 2020
Can't get over how the rigorous symmetry is wrecked by the net being inches off-center. Could drive an OCD sufferer to breakdown.
— Yas Just a Lightweight (@Yastreblyansky) December 8, 2020
Yes, that makes it funnier, and it's definitely true (Teddy Roosevelt had the court built ca. 1902).
— Yas Just a Lightweight (@Yastreblyansky) December 8, 2020
The court was the site of noteworthy tragedy in 1924, when Calvin Coolidge's sons Calvin Jr. (16) and John (17) were playing on the court: Calvin Jr. developed a blister on his right big toe, it got infected, and the kid died a week later of blood poisoning.
Michelle's kitchen garden has been allowed to remain, perhaps surprisingly--there must be some pro-vegetable faction in the White House we didn't know about--and Lady Bird's Children's Garden (without the Obamas' swing set, which was offered to the Trumps but they declined).
— Yas Just a Lightweight (@Yastreblyansky) December 8, 2020
It's also about Donald's passion for tennis, which you may not have known about, possibly because he doesn't play it but at one time spent a lot of time behind glass eating cheeseburgers in a tennis stadium.
— Yas Just a Lightweight (@Yastreblyansky) December 8, 2020
I love the styling of "now-first lady", as if she used to be second. pic.twitter.com/1pkCzSIdRV
Copy editing tip: they should have used an n-dash, "now–first lady", though it still would look funny. But she who is first will later be last, for the times they are a-changing.
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