<b>Morning Chatter</b>

Quotes of the Day Journo shares his squid: "This is the best crispy squid/calamari I've ever had." -- WaPo designer Tim Wong. Late-night *&^%$# WH Pool Report "Your pooler is delighted to report that the arrival was entirely uneventful. After a nighttime approach that reminded your pooler just how *&^%$# privileged he is to have this job, Marine One touched down on the South Lawn at about 9:04 pm Clustered journos got a quick wave as President Obama walked into the residence, trailed by the usual gang (Carney, Plouffe, etc)... ('*&^%$#' is pronounced 'golldurn')" -- Yahoo! News' Olivier Knox. No fruit for Zeke? "I just don't understand, Zeke Miller, next to me on the plane says 'I don't eat fruit.' But it's so delicious." -- Politico's Ginger Gibson on Buzzfeed's Zeke Miller. From the Dept. of Insanity "Let's face it. We're all a little bored with the Olympics. So at 1015 tonight switch over to Fox News & see me on @gretawire's show." -- Bloomberg TV Contributor Neil Barofsky, whose name on account of this tweet should be Barfsky. Skittle overload "I have that feeling I've eaten too many Skittles on a long car trip -- about this campaign." -- NYT's Mark Leibovich. Newsflash: GOP Victory Chair and possible Lt. Gov candidate Pete Snyder is officially a Fox Contributor as of this week. He says "I feel like I just got drafted by the New York Yankees." Travel encounters... "Child in line won't stop staring. Maybe she's blinded by my beauty. Maybe she's terrified by the job I did putting on mascara in the dark." -- Erica Elliott, Comm Director for House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). Journo marvels over new cab "Just hopped in a cab, and it is literally brand new. I'm his first ride. What are the odds? Not used to good non-Uber forms of DC transport." -- Politico apparently very high James Hohmann. Ahh...memories "Last party at an aquarium I attended ended when an employee micturated on the penguins #tampa" -- NJ's Jim O'Sullivan. The definition of micturate is: urinate. Obama makes sock joke to press "As press looked on, Pres Obama mock-boasted 'No holes the my socks. My grandmother would be proud.'" -- CBS White House radio reporter Mark Knoller. AFP's Stephen Collinson further explains the moment in a White House Pool Report: "When he was done, he stopped to get his shoes and sat down on the edge of the mat right in front of the pool to put his shoes on in a rather unusual photo op. CBS’s Peter Maer commented 'very presidential Sir.'" And Obama responded above.

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