Chicago: Totally hands-free!!!

well you just can't see their grandpa-waisted pants

Gerald...Gerry...Ger...Guh.

You can't see their jeans though. xpost

I know, I just wanted to post that. :)

All I'm doing now is watching Kids in the Hall.

I remember some KitH thing that was kind of an MTV parody, it was about a new dance or style or something...it was probably the most dated thing they ever did, but awesomely so.

All I ever do is watch Kids in the Hall.

youtube doesn't seem to have the monkey room one

Goddamn, that lazy zing thread. It's a cancer.

srsly, but it's like lung cancer. It's my own damn fault for having it. :(

Regrets, I've had a few.

OTM.

Who is coming with me and Dan to ThTh tonight?

Where is Thirsty THursday?

I probably shouldn't.

In your MIND.

No, it is here.

Eeeeeh ... maybe next week.

three and a half stars? WHY BOTHER?

guys I can't make it today but yay for TT being a thing again!

jaymc, has there been a proper salad dressing poll on ILE?

Not that I recall. That'd be a good one, though!

done

Hi. I'm eating salad.

http://www.imdiversity.com/Villages/Asian/Secret_Asian_Man/SAM_Images/SAM_newmans_0705.gif

I love that dressing.

guys, am i ever going to get a job? i'm not that stupid, and i've applied right at my level of experience. plus above and below, just in case. this sucks. :(

three and a half stars? WHY BOTHER?

rooftop bar!

colette, how long have you been looking? and what are you looking for, again?

Colette it took me three (3) months to find a full-time job, and that was a pretty shitty full-time job.

Colette, email me at naamme @ yahoo dot com. I don't think I have your email.

Hey just in case people are still looking for bikes, I saw this place written up in Chicago Weekly, sounds like a great shop:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/A3nlppi48KNNYe4AuNtWQw

Actually that whole issue was pretty great. They cataloged the "best of the south side". That record store in Beverly made it, along with Salonica and a bunch of other places that have been mentioned on Chi threads gone by.

Never mind colette, I found your email, Sarah had sent it to me a while back.

i guess i first started seriously looking the beginning of august. i'm not even getting calls back from temp agencies (i'm registered with new 0ffice but in that time have had 6 days of work). i know it's a slow process, but man it's depressing!

sisut, i have a masters degree in nonprofit management. i've been applying for communications posts and events planning and some grantwriting. plus general admin assistant roles, working in shops, etc. bleh.

2x what n/a said...it took me about 3 months of looking. I'm in non-profit fundraising/development so let me know where you've been looking and I'll keep an eye out, too. I know Teen Living Programs was looking for a grantwriter a while back, but I think they've filled it. Go ahead and email me at katie @ lacasanorte dot org

From the AV Club interview with Uwe Boll: "...Dave foley really went for it. He event went for a full-frontal nudity scene, which was surprising for me also. I was sitting behind my video desk and couldn't believe it! He did it without telling me. He was supposed to get up from his bed and close his bathrobe, but he didn't close it. We were all sitting there laughing our ass off. He played it super-cool. It's those kinds of offensive scenes that make Postal special, because it's harsher than what we're used to from even the Farrelly brothers' comedies. It's like one step more than even Borat. Postal is like Borat without the black bars."

Dilbert is unusually emo today:

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2007203690920.gif

Remember when I was talking about how the word "breaststroke" had give straight consonants? Well, so does "postscript." I wonder if there are any others.

I seem to remember that "bookkeeper" is the only word with three straight sets of double letters. Is that right?

Wow, the rest of that Uwe Boll interview is gold.

I think so, Nick.

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sorry, i am being a smartass.

This city assessor is visiting our building and just gave me his card. He has J0hn's name!

Don't you know that English is the only language that counts, Katie?

The Internet has ruined everything:

Consonant Strings

Some common words with an uninterrupted string of five consonants are BACKSPLASH, BACKSTRETCH, BACKSTROKE, BIRTHPLACE, BREASTSTROKE, DOWNSTREAM, DOWNTHRUST, DUMBSTRUCK, EIGHTHS, ERSTWHILE, HEARTTHROB, LENGTHS, LIGHTPROOF, MATCHSTICK, NIGHTCLOTHES, NIGHTCLUB, NIGHTDRESS, POSTSCRIPT, STRENGTHS, THOUSANDTHS, THUMBSCREW, TWELFTHS, WARMTHS, and WITCHCRAFT. ANGSTS is the shortest word with five consonants in a row.

These words have six consecutive consonants: ARCHCHRONICLER, CATCHPHRASE, ESCHSCHOLTZIA, HANTZSCHIA, KNIGHTSBRIDGE, LATCHSTRING, POSTPHTHISIC, and WELTSCHMERZ. A popular staple food in Ukraine is a beetroot soup called borsch, which occurs in English dictionaries with a variety of spellings including borshch and borscht, giving rise to plurals containing a string of six consonants: BORSHCHS and BORSCHTS.

HIRSCHSPRUNG'S (DISEASE) has seven consecutive consonants, as does SCHTSCHUROWSKIA. The shortest such word is TSKTSKS. All of these words can be found in major English dictionaries.

"Archchronicler" sounds like a really lame comic book villan.

Sorry, I know I already posted too much stuff from damninteresting, but this is Chicago/WGN-related. Make sure to watch the linked YouTube clips: http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=776#more-776

Also, Office has a video: http://chicagoist.com/2007/09/20/omg_an_office_m.php

I vaaaaaaguely remember that Max Headroom guy. Or maybe I just remember hearing about it. But I didn't know the whole story. That is damn interesting.

Yup yup.

I seem to remember that "bookkeeper" is the only word with three straight sets of double letters. Is that right?

I remember learning this from an Encyclopedia Brown book

BEEKKEEPER would be a cool word.