The queues stretched to security checkpoints where those holding the 25, 000 tickets distributed for the ceremony.
Serpentine queues outside restaurants are de rigueur in a city that is always on the move.
While not necessary, booking in advance is recommended in order to avoid the queues.
These are limited in number and often broken, and the queues tend to be long.
Queues of mourners stretched for about half a mile (0.8km), an hour before Wednesday's ceremony started.
The LA Times also picked up on this meme in its coverage of the queues.
Limited bandwidth can jam up traffic, forcing some slices of processing to wait in long queues.
The motorway was shut for around six hours leading to five-mile (8km) queues of traffic.
BBC: Heavy traffic on the M4 between J28-29 on Friday morning
Bosses at a Leicester hospital have said they are looking at solutions to long parking queues.
In Garissa, frustration grew in the long queues as the heat beat down, our correspondent reports.
Queues for the basics of life - bread and fuel - grow ever longer.
"We know at times queues have been too long, " a Border Force spokesman said in response.
When queues form paramedics have to look after patients on trolleys along hospital corridors.
So far, the answer has remained no, even as the dole queues has climbed.
Or off to someone whose job is simply to monitor the queues of phone calls.
Queues built up at some petrol stations as nervous drivers stocked up with extra fuel.
He found it in the queues of white-collar expatriates outside pricey Chinese restaurants in Jeddah.
But the refineries have been allowed to run down, causing day-long queues at petrol stations.
As we left, we saw long queues at petrol stations, something we had not seen elsewhere.
The movement of goods across frontiers should become easier, and queues at the borders should disappear.
Despite the queues, the atmosphere was generally peaceful and calm, helped by the wet, cloudy weather.
The A48 is closed in both directions at Stormy Down, Bridgend, with traffic queues.
But at the Hofpfisterei tills, nifty software keeps the queues short and moving fast.
Peruvian regulators acted after queues of anxious customers gathered at a branch in Lima.
Fuel shortages have caused panic in recent weeks, leading to long queues across the country.
Every day brings a fresh round of announcements about layoffs and lengthening dole queues.
It shouldn't require queues of pensioners down the High Street before the chancellor says something.
Although queues are much shorter, it will still be busy throughout the festival.
Gamers have reported long queues to play, bugs and other glitches since SimCity launched on 5 March.
To clear the queues, EA had doubled the number of servers supporting the game, Ms Bradshaw said.
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