Would YOU Recognize the Oval Office?

If you’ve been following me on Twitter for any length of time, then you’ve already figured out that I have two main goals when I tweet.

1) To leave people sitting there scratching their heads and saying “WTF?” or 2) To leave them sitting there saying “She DID NOT just tweet that!”

(The answers, of course, are 1) Most of you will NEVER have any answer to WTF? and 2) Hell yes, I DID tweet that!)

But, anyway, a little over a week ago, I decided to change my picture, AGAIN, just to keep people on their toes. This time, instead of just a headshot, I decided to use one that my son took, last month when we were at Madame Tussaud’s in Washington, D.C.

I would like to explain that since this museum is in D.C., it is mainly focused on political figures. The first sculpture you see as you go down the steps is Ben Franklin. As you progress on your adventure, you eventually enter the hall of Presidents, capped off with photo opportunities with brand new sculptures of the Obama’s and a slightly smaller, but nonetheless 100% complete in detail, mock-up of the Oval Office.

There were a few people that had already seen this picture, when I first tweeted it, but I knew a lot had missed it. When I put it up as my avatar, I expected some funny comments such as “verwon for President,” or “Whoa, they let YOU in?” I was, however, rather surprised when, instead, I got comments on how nice “my office” was and others asking me WHERE it was taken!

Now, just so you can see for yourselves how accurate this picture is, I’ll embed it here:

And here’s the link to a pic of the actual Oval Office.

There are some minor details that can change with each administration, such as the curtain colors, and in the picture my son took, they are the same colors as the ones currently used by the Obama’s.

Now, to cut to the chase, after the first few comments, I thought it could make an interesting blog tale, if I kept track of exactly how many people DID or DID NOT recognize the Oval Office.

In the time period the picture was up, which was 9 days, I received 127 comments on the picture. Discounting those who do not live in the US or aren’t American, whom I would not necessarily expect to recognize it, brings us down to 116.

(I did not count the people who had already seen the picture and knew what it was!)

Out of these 116 people, 3 of them, THAT’S RIGHT JUST 3 recognized the Oval Office! (Ironically, it was also recognized by one Canadian, which should make you Americans feel just a little weird!) So that means, that 97.4% of Americans who commented on this picture DID NOT RECOGNIZE the most important office in the U.S.A.

I will conclude by saying that I am a HUGE fan of both the ironic and absurd, but this surprised even me!

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