I've Been Wondering What My Presidential Library/Museum Should Look Like?

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  1. Dayton Kitchens

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    If I were ever president, I assume that if I lived through a term or two I would upon leaving office open a presidential library/museum. It is a pretty big deal to most presidents.

    President Clinton ended up with one that looks strikingly like a giant mobile home (house trailer) because it was supposed to extend halfway across the Arkansas River and resemble a bridge as in "bridge to the 21st century".

    But after the design was finalized the Secret Service vetoed having it extend over the river for security reasons.

    I had two ideas.

    1) A complete replica (externally) of the school I attended. My three sisters and I combined attended there 47 out of 48 years collectively (I went t0 a new school for third grade only). But now almost all the buildings have been torn down though the site is still there. It is a nice site as it overlooks our hometown.

    2) Something like that office building that is meant to be the starship Enterprise. Kind of a generic Enterprise but still obviously Star Trek inspired.

    My wife said staunchly "NO!" to this one
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    Ok, I'll play along.

    How about a Waffle House?
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    I'd suggest something like this:

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    This:

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    Or this:

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  4. Dayton Kitchens

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    Wasn't there long enough for it to be worth mentioning. It isn't even on my resume.
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    This is pretty representative. Just scale it up a little.

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    But if people think it's a Waffle House, they might actually visit.
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    If people will visit Bill Clinton's they will visit anywhere.
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    Somehow turn that into a building full of nothing.
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    If I became President, instead of building a Museum To Me afterwards I'd just donate the appropriate memorabilia/papers/whatever to various actual libraries and use the intended acreage for a public garden or something useful.

    She's right. The Democrats would eat you alive for being exclusionary against B5'ers :no:
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    Perhaps you are right. Though a free standing model of the Babylon-Five station would be easier probably than one of the Enterprise.
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    Tell that to the Chinese.

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    Or you could use these old plans. Assuming, of course, the entire species took leave of its collective senses, and allowed you to become President. Which isn't going to happen. I know that you think Trump somehow opened the door for any drooling idiot to be elected President, but trust me, you've got no shot. None. You might as well wish to have 16 heads, the odds of you getting them are about the same.
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    Oh please Tuckerfan,

    We all know that if I were elected president (or even a lesser office) that you, shootER, Faceman, ed629, Garamet.......and others too long to name would be falling all over yourselves in slavish sycophancy.
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    If anyone ever needed more proof that you don't understand people, you've just provided it.
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    If I ever become emperor of Earth, I'm thinking something like this:



    except it would be me instead of Bender, and it would be full of porn, making it a library of sorts.
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    Ooh, somebody got themselves a dictionary. :lol:
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    How are your plans for deleting the internet proceeding, Dayton?
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  22. Dayton Kitchens

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    you know according to the moderators here I cannot talk about that or I'll be banned.
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    I would save that for a simulator.

    The same one that shows me serving in combat.

    But seriously. When Bill Clinton's presidential library was being planned, Clinton pal Spielberg offered to include a simulator that showed Bill Clinton serving in the military in combat.

    No that never happened but Spielberg suggested it could be "symbolic" of the "battles Clinton had fought"!!!
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    Incorrect. If you didn't want to look like a retard, you could say that you had no desire to censor or edit material available on the internet.
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    Not following what you are trying to say Henry.
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    My library to all the stupid shIt Dayton has done will open across the street. It will be more popular. It will have a bar.
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    Not if its in my town kid.
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  28. Quincunx

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    What is the Dayton Combat Simulator? As soon as you come under fire, drop your rifle and run like hell? :lol:
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    I didn't realize you owned towns gramps.
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    Then read it again. Specifically, you're only banned from threatening cyber-attacks against Wordforge. If like most of us, you don't wish to engage in such things then you're completely free to talk about it.