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Brian Moylan

03/18/10 06:15PM

Filed to: Pic Of The Day

[White House press secretary Robert Gibbs held his daily press briefing in the Rose Garden today. It's like on the first day of spring when your Social Studies teacher took the class outside. Image via Getty]

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RollsRoyceRevenge Brian Moylan 03/18/10 07:38PM

"From what we can tell, the triffid is a harmless decorative plant, suitable for providing shade next to large Classical buildings—wait, something just stung me—"

oudemia RollsRoyceRevenge 03/18/10 07:48PM

@RollsRoyceRevenge: Heh. (Nerd!)

oudemia RollsRoyceRevenge 03/18/10 07:49PM

@RollsRoyceRevenge: But better triffids, I think, than those sexytime Star Trek spore flowers.

sweet_communist oudemia 03/18/10 07:56PM

@oudemia: Beware the neo-tribbles.

porpoiseful sweet_communist 03/18/10 08:00PM

@sweet_communist: What the hell is that? Is it...real?

sweet_communist Brian Moylan 03/18/10 06:51PM

Clearly, he does not suffer from seasonal allergies. Just looking at that photo makes my mast cells degranulate.

sweet_communist sweet_communist 03/18/10 07:08PM

@sweet_communist: My mastocytes in action.

sophista sweet_communist 03/18/10 07:08PM

@sweet_communist: I like to imagine he found out the correspondent from Fox News sneezes all through spring.

sweet_communist sophista 03/18/10 07:10PM

@sophista: That would make me love Robert Gibbs even more.

GlasgowRose Brian Moylan 03/18/10 07:12PM

I beg your pardon - Gibbs promised us the Rose Garden (which is normally reserved for the prez)...

sophista GlasgowRose 03/18/10 07:33PM

@GlasgowRose: After the Kingdom of Yr of the Bush admin, Gibbs & co. should never have promised a rose garden.

GlasgowRose sophista 03/18/10 07:38PM

@sophista: Nor the thorny crown that Shrub placed on his own head....

Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) Brian Moylan 03/18/10 06:57PM

Magnolias grow and bloom as far north as the New York metro area—magnificent tree.

liserly Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) 03/18/10 07:00PM

@Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): They grow up here in Canada too, and magnificent is a perfect description. We will, however, be waiting a bit longer to see them bloom.

porpoiseful Oy Veh (Informality Reigns) 03/18/10 07:02PM

@Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): They have been blooming here in Vancouver for weeks (ironically, since the beginning of the Winter Olympics). I love them.