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So I went to the gym this morning in Edina, Minnesota, near my hotel. This was the sign on the door…

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Being at the convention means you spend most of your time milling around, sitting around, sitting in cars. So… the gym, for an hour. Edina is pretty far out of St. Paul, but our hotel is packed with delegates and journalists and pretty much the nicest, politest, most helpful front-desk staff that I’ve ever had the pleasure of tormenting with my insane demands.

Anyway, there were some delegates working out at the gym, and they weren’t feeling very bad for the pepper-sprayed protesters or the arrested journalists. The protesters, said the men, “should be glad that they’re only getting pepper-sprayed.” Big laugh. “If it were up to me, it’d be line ‘em up, shoot ‘em down.” Har har. And the journalists ought to be inside the convention, covering the proceedings, not outside the convention, documenting the atrocities. Then the men began discussing—no shit—gout. One of ‘em recently had a bad bout o’ gout, and so now his doctor tells him he’s gotta eat “salads and lemons and shit.”

Anyway, I quickly came to regret not bringing my earphones with me. And, hey, if you’re ever in Edina, Minnesota, and you wanna work out and you can spare the extra $60 bucks… some of the personal trainers at Bally Total Fitness in Edina are pretty freakin’ hot…

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Comments (23)

1

Those names. Those names!

Posted by Greg | September 3, 2008 11:45 AM
2

But the hot one is Strait!

Posted by gember | September 3, 2008 11:45 AM
3

Great mug shots.

Posted by Ziggity | September 3, 2008 11:46 AM
4

My cousins used to live in Edina. I even went to a bat mitzvah there.

Posted by Abby | September 3, 2008 11:49 AM
5

Dan, why the hell are you in Edina? That's like the Orange County of the Twin Cities.

Oh, and those "____ Bans Guns in These Premises" signs are thanks to Pawlenty's concealed-carry law.

Posted by Andy | September 3, 2008 11:55 AM
6

I would so not be allowed to work out there on account of the huge size of my arms.

Posted by printer | September 3, 2008 11:59 AM
7

I call dibs on the "Strait" guy!

Also, listening to conservatives talk when they don't think anyone is listening is frightening.

Posted by Mike in MO | September 3, 2008 12:02 PM
8

But, it's so convenient to the Maul of America...

Posted by michael strangeways | September 3, 2008 12:03 PM
9

Yeah, lots of workplaces there have those signs. I remember being startled by them when I first visited my firm's Minneapolis offices.

Posted by Julie in Chicago | September 3, 2008 12:04 PM
10

Wow...I know I'm naive as hell, but even when I was a Republican, I believed in freedom of speech. I wanted people to express themselves, not be lined up and shot because I didn't like what they said.

I wish people would do more than give lip service to freedoms. Lately, it's all just lip service.

Posted by AtlantaSteve | September 3, 2008 12:10 PM
11

Is Edina pronounced like Edina Monsoon, or like Medina, Washington?

Posted by Shelby Cobra | September 3, 2008 12:11 PM
12

Dan, you should know that people from Edina love to be called "cake eaters." And you should shout it wherever you encounter them.

Posted by C | September 3, 2008 12:13 PM
13

Ee-DIE-nuh.

Those guns signs are everywhere in Minnesota. There's a concealed weapon law of some sort passed back in 2002 or 2003. I remember going home after the law passed and seeing those signs everywhere. It was very strange.

Posted by Jason Josephes | September 3, 2008 12:33 PM
14

@6 totally beat me to the punch... Dan had lots of "nice guns" comments on his pic from yesterday's slog...

Posted by Nixor | September 3, 2008 12:40 PM
15

The "BANS GUNS IN THESE CREVICES" sign sounds illiterate. I think the wording should be either "BANS GUNS ON THESE PREMISES" or "BANS GUNS IN THESE CREVICES."

Posted by Kaypro | September 3, 2008 12:40 PM
16

The "BANS GUNS IN THESE PREMISES" sign sounds illiterate. I think a better health club sign would be either "BANS GUNS ON THESE PREMISES" or "BANS GUNS IN THESE CREVICES."

Posted by Kaypro | September 3, 2008 12:52 PM
17

RE: 15 & 16 -

Freudian slips and double entry. Sorry.

Posted by Kaypro | September 3, 2008 1:05 PM
18

dan you are in Edina? thats pathetic, Ballys? You should have been at the Uptown Y, thats the spot!

Posted by ZWBush | September 3, 2008 1:39 PM
19

dan you are in Edina? thats pathetic, Ballys? You should have been at the Uptown Y, thats the spot!

Posted by ZWBush | September 3, 2008 1:45 PM
20

Edina sucks horse testicle.

Posted by STJA | September 3, 2008 3:38 PM
21

The only hot one is strait >.

Posted by anthony | September 3, 2008 3:51 PM
22

You only think they're hot because they have porn star names.

Posted by dwight moody | September 3, 2008 4:13 PM
23

Rather sexist, Dan, don't you think?

Posted by Oh that | September 3, 2008 5:46 PM

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