Chicago: home of the President of the United fucking States

Take the bitter with the better, bros.

Sooooo... I think that I may be at a party with the Dem Veep candidate tomorrow night! My boss's friend is a personal friend of JB's and apparently his restaurant has been crawling with S3cr3t S3rvic3 folks all weekend. If anyone is interested, email me - $25 for open bar and appetizers on MI Ave, convenient to the rally. Starts around 6.

wau!

I'm as impressed by the low, low price tag as by JB's appearance.

Hey, Chicago. Welcome to what Texas and Arkansas has been for the past 20 years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/us/politics/01angst.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&hp&adxnnlx=1225563866-xmqckjvOdSe7Ts1u7f1Qzg&oref=slogin

this thread title is drawing a lot of outside attention. I love it. :)

Also, what nick said about the olympics. I don't want 'em. I like being able to afford living here.

So much for Obamapalooza happening in the rain. Can't trust a 10-day forecast, I oughta know better. Instead, the weather will be like the good lord smiling on us. It is almost stupidly gorgeous outside.

I have to go on record as being very much against this thread title.

is it the profanity, or the jinxing?

After a weird bounce yesterday into the 6% range on 538 yesterday, we're now back to this:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5ieXw28ZUpg/SQ69tlv7lDI/AAAAAAAAAlI/VUeBHgXnrlk/S1600-R/1103_mainchart.png

The jinxing, but moreso the arrogance.

I heart arrogance

Chicago does not equal Midland, Texas. At the very least it should be "home of the next President..."

I heart accuracy

Get a mod to change it for you then change it back in january.

yeah, i should never start a thread at 3 in the morning. :(

^ truth bomb

I really hope you take his possible future status as "the FUCKING president" well....

Jesse, kick Biden in the balls for me.

I think he passed a Violence Against Biden Act that prevents me from kicking him at all.

I just conducted a poll that indicates that today is not very productive for Chicago workers due to 3l3ct|0n-related nerves.

nerves about WHAT? between McCain's utter stupidity and the schoolgirl fantasy crushes on O, it's in the bag.

media satellite trucks I saw while riding the 2 through grant park today

CNN
ABC
NBC
CBS
Fox
Sky
BBC
Al-Jazeera

and a bunch of others with logos I didn't recognize

Morbs u did read that cop blog post right? Riots r no fun, plus it could fuck up my commute.

did you call the cops on the last one dan

yeah, they told me they're "ready" :\

I just want this to be over. I want you-know-who to win and McCain back in the desert and Palin off preparing for her next steps.

I have nerves that McCain will be president. I can't bear any more pain!

Mostly I fear the same folks who stomped their feet in Florida will stomp their feet in this election and try to sabotage or invalidate it.

That too.

I feel like it's Christmas Eve, but that when I unwrap my present, it might be filled with killer bees.

If Those GOPeople try to steal an election that's not close, riots would be an excellent idea. (Should've been done in 2000.)

well said xp

I have faith in the Obama "ground game." These guys know how elections are stolen, and they're all over that shit.

ONE MORE DAY OF THIS BULLSHIT

and then the governing bullshit starts.

STOP THE GROUCHING
START ENJOYING THE NICE WEATHER

it is a sign

9/11 was a beautiful day.

touche

Today through Thursday look like five stars out of five.

So pissed. I had a meeting with a large Wisconsin contractor that our company has worked with for over twenty years. I cringed when I pulled in to their lot and saw the huge McCain/Palin sign in the front of their building. Anyway, while I was in their office for a 45 minute meeting, one of their employees stole our Obama magnet. It was a private lot with controlled access and since the conference room we were sitting in faced the lobby, I could see that no one else came in the building while were in there.

omfg

I hope a complaint was lodged?

Thats the problem. The owner of the company is best golfing buddies with my boss. As in, they take twice yearly week-long golfing vacations together. So if I do complain, it will cause major problems for me here. Plus, my boss is also a huge Republican, so he's not likely to really back me up too much.

wow

Maybe it was a gag. Like, the employee who stole your magnet has been doing that all year long and like tomorrow, the owner of the company is going to come out to his car and find it covered under 200 Obama magnets.

hm seems like theft by company employees would be cause for concern but whatevs, you know the situation better than I.

just let it go ... you lost a magnet, they're going to lose an election

If it was me: fuck bosses, fuck golfing buddies, I want my shit back or at least 5 minutes with the fucker who took it.

I agree with you dan, unfortunately the relationship (both professionally and personally) they have with our firm puts me in a really hard place to be very vocal about it. Obvs its just a silly magnet, but the principle of the thing kind of pisses me off.

dud or extra dud: having to pee while proctoring an exam

Dud! If the stoods can go pee, I think you should be able to go pee!

yeah, just go pee and let them cheat for a few minutes

This is not a happy person:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2008-12/43801659.jpg

Ha! Oh, Pats...

yeah, just go pee and let them cheat for a few minutes
this is what i did

oh man that alley rat picture

just in case you guys didn't see it on that other thread

http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/5610/worstheadlinehj3.jpg

Taint of Blagojevich would be a good name for a metal band

ahhahaah genuine lolz
how crude

I wonder if Rod's taint has funny hair, too...

tender esl story, coming right up:

last summer i had a student named mohammed who was from iraq. he was an engineer in iraq, but was looking for a job - any job- here in chicago. he was in my class for like 2 weeks, maybe three. during that time, he requested that i help him get a dictionary like the ones we use in class. i said sure. other people said they wanted the dictionaries too, so i ordered a bunch of used ones from various sellers via abeb00ks. the second or third week of class he told me that he got a job at a hotel as "hotelman" and that his schedule would prevent him from attending class and he was very sorry. for weeks these dictionaries poured into my mailbox; it was really irritating and they were really heavy to carry to work.
the guy disappeared and never got his dictionary and i never saw him again.

until today, when i was walking home from the train and i saw him. he was just standing there on the corner talking to a friend in front of the indian/pakistani restaurant. i turned around and made sure it was him. it was. it just so happens that i had ONE dictionary left from the several dozen that i ordered. no one bought that one. so i ran upstairs (across the street) and he waited for me and he finally got his dictionary.

the end.

Yay!

Sweet.

New thread

no

aw

well, ok

aw

no, no, ladies' choice

why?
by all means, the taint of blagojevich it is

I kind of like it. Not the actual taint of Blago. The thread.