Chicago: home of the President of the United fucking States

Oh weird, I have never noticed such a thing, but I'm sure it's happened. Well, Sarah, it wasn't me.

Battlestar is definitely a key draw, and the reason why we have the cable package we have now, but it will be over soon. (SOB) Most of the other stuff you can get on iTunes or the network website, can't you? Just not contemporaneously to its air date, but with the DVR we never watch anything at its regular air time.

I probably just sent out one too many Word Twist game requests to someone. ha ha

WOAH. I figured out who unfriended me, just an ex-coworker. Well, screw 'em.

tv and phones are lame

Mostly, I've been wanting bustracker lately.

we can watch lots of tv on our computer but we just have a laptop so the screen is small. plus we just got that big new fancy tv. we can hook up the laptop to the tv if i get the necessary cable but it never looks that great, just looks digitized and weird

Ahhhh that makes sense - I forgot you had a laptop and a fancy TV. Well, I will offer this: DVR is pretty awesome and satellite breaks when the weather is bad. Alternative, we can trade TVs.

SARAH - bus tracker changed my life.

Oh, hte other thing: G1 is on TMobile, which has the Fave 5 thing, so you can get unlimited calls to your F5.

And b/c of this, you can get a smaller minute plan.

lol Blago. God bless Illinois.

I probably just sent out one too many Word Twist game requests to someone. ha ha

If it was me, don't worry -- I always play them, but usually only on the weekend or late at night.

AT&T you get free calls to other AT&T users.

I suck at Word Twist. I miss faux-Scrabble!

i emailed ben and max trying to recruit them to our pub quiz team

Still, Dan, it might not hurt to read up on the Simpsons Christmas episodes.

I'm on this.

Something key to remember about the first Christmas ep? -- Several of the scenes were laid out by Eric Stefani, brother of Gwen Stefani.

Also, on AT&T you get roll-over minutes. It really is a draw. It comes down to details.

I miss faux-Scrabble!

There's real Scrabble, and there's Wordscraper, which is from the makers of faux-Scrabble and is v. similar.

speaking of which, sarah you need to play your turns on our scrabble games

I'm on this.

I keep thinking it probably won't be Simpsons-related, that it's just an amusing anagrammatic coincidence, but then I think of how there's a Simpsons question in General Knowledge every fucking week.

Press conference is on live on the radio and TV right now.

yeah, dude is a big simpsons geek, i think your guess might be right

I know, Nick. I'm on it. I was waiting for a family member to stop by first and to find out if the boss would be in (he won't). I managed to get scolded for something over the phone. I fedexed a package to him he requested and stuck in another fedex he'd just received which was related to the rest of the stuff and required his sig's, but it turns out it was supposed to be reviewed by someone else in the office first. Fun!

And John, I was joking that maybe my game requests turned someone off to the point of un-friending me.

if you want to win you really need paul G

Holy shit has anyone actually under investigation been this UNCAUTIOUS about what they say on the fucking telephone!?!?!? What a dumbass.

especially when he knew he'd been under investigation for years. goes beyond dumb, it's pathological. fitzgerald seems sort of dumbfounded by the degree and nakedness of it.

I got so excited about my boss getting arrested that I missed the pub quiz conversation. When/where are you going?

Pat Fitzgerald is a fucking action hero and I love him.

Also he was on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me once.

I like that this is the de facto Blago thread.

When/where are you going?

Tonight. Globe Pub. Quiz starts at 8 (get there early for seats).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons_Roasting_on_an_Open_Fire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_Be_Not_Proud
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_on_Evergreen_Terrace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayored_to_the_Mob
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grift_of_the_Magi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinner%27s_Sense_of_Snow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_of_Little_Faith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Tis_the_Fifteenth_Season
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons_Christmas_Stories
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Gil,_Volumes_I_%26_II

This is all I can find as far as Christmas-themed episodes. Unfortunately they started doing them more regularly after I stopped watching the show religiously, it seems.

Tonight. Globe Pub. Quiz starts at 8 (get there early for seats).

Ah. I would very much like to come along one night, if you'll have me, but tonight is not that night.

my dem family in IL is sort of in picard.jpg mode right now

I don't get that joke, but I would like to.

me neither. and me too.

http://masculinists.org/images/picard.jpg

ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

http://globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/picard_ashamed.jpg

thx

lol "globalnerdy.com"

hahaha okay. Now I get it.

Given that Blago had a 13% approval rating, I have a hard time imagining too many people being upset/surprised by this. There's a certain ring of "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" around here as far as I can tell.

Assuming he is convicted, what will that be, like 3 out of the last 5 governors doing time?

Ding Dong, the witch, is dead.

Ding Dong, the witch is dead!

Ding dong the witch; is dead.

[quote]What is it about Illinois governors or former governors? Talk about your culture of corruption. In the modern era, former governors Otto Kerner and Dan Walker both went to federal prison, the former for taking bribes, the latter for financial improprieties at a savings and loan he ran. Jim Ryan, was forced from the governorship and is now serving prison time after being convicted on corruption. And now Blagojevich has been arrested. Does any other statehouse have anything approaching this rogues gallery, at least since the 1950s?[/quote]

- http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/12/illinois_governor_blagojevich.html

I copy/pasted that, but it's George Ryan, not Jim Ryan, no?

there was a former ill. politician named jim ryan, but yeah, they mean george ryan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Ryan_(politician)

he ran against blago in 2002

there is also creepy illinois politician jack ryan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ryan_(Senate_candidate)

Jack Ryan (born circa 1960) is a Republican from the state of Illinois who was forced to withdraw from the 2004 United States Senate race due to an alleged sex scandal involving his relationship with his ex-wife, actress Jeri Ryan. [1][2] His eventual replacement Alan Keyes would go on to lose the general election to Barack Obama, who would eventually be elected President Of The United States on November 4, 2008.