I only read it for the articles

CAUTION: MAKE SURE YOUR BOSS ISN'T BEHIND YOU.

Sorry.

Anyway. The Playmates were really cool. Reporters asked them a bunch of silly questions ("Hey Jayde, what's more fake, Pamela Anderson's boobs or this veggie dog?") and they gave as good as they got (Jayde, without missing a beat: "DEFINITELY her boobs.")

They'd tell shy female staffers they were hot enough to be models. There was some suggestive posing with hot dogs (I was too chicken to take pictures of that), but mostly they just chatted with people, autographed stuff, posed with beaming guys in suits, and handed out free food.

I dunno. It's one of those events that could easily get really weird and creepy, but the two of them just had everything under control.

Anyway. Here's my contribution to keeping the Internet seedy.

Left is Jo Garcia, 2008 Cyber Girl of the Year. Right is Jayde Nicole, 2008 Playmate of the Year.

And yes, that's real lettuce.

A couple reporters yelled, "Jayde, how do you think Congress would be different if everyone there was vegetarian?"

And she'd say something like, "I think they'd be a lot more fit. And they'd be happier. They always seem kind of cranky, don't they?"

It was some crowd, as you can imagine.

One of my interviewees said she wanted some man meat up there too,
in addition to the Lettuce Ladies.

A dispute quickly broke out among her friends as to whether you'd really want a dude there, handing you hot dogs.

My boss archly observed that the Playmates weren't wearing hairnets.

This one's my favorite. The Capitol in the back makes it extra surreal.

The PETA organizer was getting antsy at this point,
saying "We gotta go, we're illegally parked!"

A House staffer yelled back, "Everyone who could ticket you is right here!"

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