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Serge @19: I am reminded of a similar scene at the San Diego Airport when my husband and I were coming back from Comic-Con with a Master Replicas Force Lightsaber in hand.

We wanted to try and bring it on the plane, to keep it from the tender ministrations of the baggage handlers; it was in a long skinny box, and it seemed reasonable that it would fit along the back of your typical overhead bin.

"Can we take this on the plane?"

"What is it?"

"It's a toy lightsaber."

"A ... saber?"

"A lightsaber. A toy."

"You can't take a weapon on the plane."

"But it's a ... oh, never mind, we'll just check it."

(It did arrive home safely, fortunately.)

Awooon @ #57? Long time no see. ^_^

Incidentally, I forgot to mention Current Affairs, another LJ comm devoted to politician slash. Of late, it tends mostly towards "check out this hilariously slashy news story or picture" rather than actual slashfic, and so the throw-up-in-the-mouth factor is considerably lessened.

Surprisingly, I don't recall a dog being involved at all. More's the pity, perhaps, in a strange sort of way. But it was horrifying enough as it was. Sort of like trainwreck syndrome, but in this case, even the people crashing the trains couldn't back away.

I was once part of a politislash RP on GreatestJournal that involved, among other things, lots of punditslash, Kerry/Edwards, Gore/Bush, and most stomach-churningly of all, Santorum/Rumsfeld/DeLay. (As one of my fellow players once said, when we were discussing it after the fact, "we can wash and wash, but we can never be clean".)

I will observe that in the case of that particular RP, it was really all for the giggles, not the turn-on. It also included some great non-slashy moments like Rumsfeld going Emperor Palpatine on one of the Bushes (Neil, if I remember correctly).

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