Chicago: They paved a fetid swamp/and put up a parking lot

bob newhart's teeth are hard to look at these days

Uh....?

Does anyone have any opinions on microfiber sheets? I don't understand what that means.

i like his craggy face but his teeth look like they are made of plastic
it's unseemly
sorry bob newhart

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.aoltv.com/media/2010/11/bob-newhart-getty-250.jpg

They look like dentures.

i don't begrudge him anything, i just find it hard to look at, like obvious plastic surgery

when i try to think about celebrity deaths i might actually feel sad about, he's one of them (mitigated by the fact that he's pretty old).

Yeah, will be sad when they go, but Newhart and Rickles, those guys have had full lives.

And freaking Dick van Dyke -- still around!

I wrote biographical entries for Newhart and Rickles for work this year. Fun stuff.

newhart's success was relatively late-coming, right? he was in the military and then had some boring job for a while before going into comedy, iirc.

dick van dyke has done some pretty bad stuff but the dick van dyke show is classic and he's always seemed like a good dude.

now talking about bob newhart on two different threads.

now three: This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

He had a bunch of boring jobs, but they were all while he was still in his 20s. The album that made him a star came out when he was 30. Still, he kind of came out of nowhere: that album was recorded during the first set of club dates he ever performed.

Don Rickles has given me the creeps my entire life.

UGH SO BORED WHY IS IT ONLY 3:30?

I have been suffering boredom as well, entertaining myself by reading old Jim Anchower bits on the Onion.

hola amigos. i know it's been a long time since i rapped at ya, but...

just about every time I look at the Jim Anchower headshot I chortle to myself

I'm in an all day MCLE seminar and I literally might die before it's over I am so bored.

when i get really really bored, i read av club recaps of shows that i like. right now i'm reading recaps of mr. show episodes. i'm really bored.

I've already taken two naps.

you guys need this
http://www.conflicthistory.com/#/period/1324-1328

My phone horoscope told me that naps would be essential to today.

I'm going to a fancy underground restaurant tonight.

I watched The Trip last night, which I enjoyed a lot, though I think it's better to watch in parts than in one sitting. Those who hate Sideways may like this no better.

we watched the trip this week too. pretty unusual movie. i think i liked it? there may have been too many impressions in it for me.

I think what's weird/interesting is that they took a six-episode BBC series and mooshed it together into a movie. With a sit-com, every episode has the same bits: in this case, some impressions, some landscape, some food. So it's kind of like taking a bunch of Curb episodes and putting them together and having Larry do his are-you-lying staredown every 15 minutes.

Someone just suggested I wear this for Halloween:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wugY6HNLOCo&feature=youtu.be

oh i didn't realize it was assembled from a series. that makes a lot of sense, since it was structurally repetitive.

The Trip did make me want to visit northern England, with all those stone walls.

Aaaarrrrrrgh!!!Hddjdjddjsskaakdicubgy (lol auto correct completed from Hddjd on to Hddjdjddjsskaakdicubgy ) anyway I just watched the first episode of Walking Dead and it was great but I had to do a lot of yelling at the TV and thrashing around on the couch.

I will totally be sad when Bob Newhart dies and will be very sure to avoid the RIP ilx thread.

Holy shit did I have a great dinner.

Where?

http://elideas.com/

11 courses, 12 seats in the joint. Totally different menu than on their website, all fall stuff.

Tiny place out of the way near 14th and Western. People commiserate; folks can walk into the kitchen at any time and see the next dish being made.

Huh, never heard of it, but the chef is the guy who has the Meatyballs food truck, right? Looks interesting!

Ooo. The eponymous sandwich from the Meatyballs truck is delicious. I hate the name, though.

Our upstairs neighbors have been having serious yelling fights a lot lately. :(

Ha. It's a curious name. I kind of like it.

Are they a couple? Are they married? If they need a divorce lawyer let me know.

Yes and yes. Do you have a card? I'll put it in their mailbox.

Speaking of neighbors, either our direct next door neighbor or two doors down has a drum set and loves to play the drums.
I am a crabby old bitch and sit in our house and think about how I'd like to call the police on this person.
(It's loud enough to be disturbing even with our windows closed and the TV on.)

What is actually reasonable here?

(Sorry for the weird line breaks. This computer only has IE 5 on it and everything is a terrible mess.)

As a drummer who surely annoyed neighbors in my time, I would say track the person down and speak to them face to face before involving police.

I'm down with that. That will also keep me from being too knee jerk about it.

apparently i am the victim of debit card theft/fraud. fortunately i'm only out about $100 and the fraud prevention people at my bank caught it right away and it sounds like getting reimbursed shouldn't be too hard. what's weird is that apparently the money was taken out at an ATM, but i still have my card - not sure how someone took money out of my account without my card, at an ATM i hadn't been using.

for dinner i made flying saucer's breakfast bowl - brown rice, black beans, homemade pico de gallo, scrambled eggs, and cheese - so delicious.

Dinner for breakfast is one of the best things ever.

I'm sorry about the fraud but I'm really happy your bank caught it!

That's so weird, Nick! How the hell does that happen?? Do you have any idea?

Chase refused to reimburse me for the $350+ that was stolen from me in New Orleans b/c they said that the thief used my PIN, but they also wouldn't let me keep the $1,500.00 from the check that the thief deposited into my account using my PIN.

Point is, how the fuck did the person get my PIN?? It was not written on my card and I hadn't made a PIN transaction in New Orleans, so no one could have seen the number.

can i brighten your day by suggesting that you listen to this fantastic morodery disco song from the film "foxes" starring jodie foster and cherie curry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTNqwk_mlLs

if not, carry on

From what I understand, people don't need your actual card to use it. They either "skim" the information from your card (by accessing the magentic stripe on the back, usually by either sliding it through something when you aren't paying attention or by attaching a fake scanner over the top of the legit card swipe at a public ATM) or there are apparently ways to essentially pull the information wirelessly (this is why you should be a little wary of stores with dudes sitting out front with laptops open). Once they get your info, there are ways to essentially encode it in these blank cards, then use them until the cardholder realizes/finds out and the card gets shut down by the bank.

This is an oversimplification, but stuff I learned after this happened to me last summer.

NB, I'm not sure exactly how all of this actually works, my guess is MAGIC, but these are the general techniques people use.

hmmm. well i called my bank this morning, they were supposed to email me claim forms and i still haven't gotten them.

i bought a bag of "canada peppermints" at cvs and now i'm compulsively eating them.

I've done that with "spiced gumdrops" from CVS.

Oh god spiced gumdrops are the devil's candy.