JWB and Davey on the run 2014 (spoof)

[RickBeaver]

April, 1865 / reinacted 2014 style - Somewhere in Maryland or Virginia

Booth: Davey, give me your iPhone.
Herold: No way man!
Booth: C’mon, hand it over I need to check something on it.
Herold: Like what, dude?
Booth: Like what everybody is tweeting or putting on Facebook about us.
Herold: Yeah, I hadn’t thought of that, cool idea!
Booth: Davey, only 18% battery life, what the heck?
Herold: Well I haven’t had time or the place to charge it lately.
Booth: Son, we got to find somewhere to charge this thing.
Herold: Go ahead and take a look and see what people are saying.
Booth: Okay, well only 1 bar showing, but I’ll try.
Herold: Too bad we’re not back in D.C.
Booth: Why do you say that?
Herold: More bars in more places!
Booth: Oh brother…..

[L Verge]

Hilarious, but true!

Another thought: Booth could have used a drone to eliminate Mr. Lincoln on the sidewalk outside Ford's in our modern age. And then disappeared into the crowds in D.C. to see the Cherry Blossom Festival.

[LincolnMan]

I've read the spoof conversation over three or four times and have greatly enjoyed it. I was trying to think of how the conversation might have continued as it became decided they would go to Dr. Mudd's house. It would have to include something about a need to "charge" up the phone and Dr. Mudd commenting that there would be "no charge."

[L Verge]

I think Dr. Mudd would have to be Booth's primary care physician and meet all the demands of Obamacare. Booth or Herold would also need a GPS system in one of the saddlebags to refer to as they navigated the roads, streams, and swamps of Southern Maryland.

On a side note, Dave and Lindsey went to hear Sarah Vowell speak at St. Mary's College in Southern Maryland on Friday night. For those of you who may not have heard of her, she is a sarcastic (sometimes funny - usually obnoxious) author of such books as Assassination Vacation. In the case of that book, she gives a travelogue as she travels from one assassination site to another. It's one of those books that I giggled through and then stopped and thought, "Darn, she's downright rude!"

During her presentation, Lindsey reports that a girl in the audience asked why she was so hard on Maryland. She used Booth as an example of a despicable citizen of the state, etc. Her main reason, however, seemed to be because she got lost on the way to Mudd's house! Poor preparation, I would say, on her part. All she had to do was ask while she was at Surratt House. We give out printed directions correct down to even the exact distance between points - courtesy of Rick Smith.

She irked me in the book by making fun of our guides. Evidently our setting the stage as to what life was like in Southern Maryland and for the Surratts during the Civil War didn't appeal to her. All she wanted was to see where Booth had stopped. Fortunately for us, she did comment that her traveling companion enjoyed the general history...

P.S. I need to find out what state she is from. Maryland really does rank pretty low on the chart of ones having the most despicable and dishonest citizens in their history.

[J. Beckert]

She's an Okie - and I agree about her snide demeanor. I don't care for it, either.

[wsanto]

(04-13-2014 11:45 AM)L Verge Wrote:  P.S. I need to find out what state she is from. Maryland really does rank pretty low on the chart of ones having the most despicable and dishonest citizens in their history.

Born in Oklahoma moved to Montana at age 11

List of Oklahoma's most notorious--

http://www.travelok.com/article_page/okl...ry-outlaws

[L Verge]

(04-13-2014 05:41 PM)wsanto Wrote:  

(04-13-2014 11:45 AM)L Verge Wrote:  P.S. I need to find out what state she is from. Maryland really does rank pretty low on the chart of ones having the most despicable and dishonest citizens in their history.

Born in Oklahoma moved to Montana at age 11

List of Oklahoma's most notorious--

http://www.travelok.com/article_page/okl...ry-outlaws

Thanks for the info, gentlemen. She appears to be the pot calling the kettle black.