Chicago: home of the President of the United fucking States

hi gbx. how are you?

good title

hello, things are well. are you going to the Spies show in Nov? I'm not :(

i don't know, we couldn't play because that's the day sarah's family is coming in for thanksgiving, but i might be able to sneak out and go to the show

i have a test the following monday, so coming down to Chi is right out. bummer!

carried over from previous thread

Man, I hate this thread title. Next time: "Chicago: so 'literary' and lofty and ridiculous and just kill us all right now before we go on about ourselves any longer"

― Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Monday, November 3, 2008 2:37 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Hey I have an idea for you: kiss my ass!

also what everyone else said re: jinxing

i can't wait for january when the chicago threads get REALLY bitter.

xposting from election thread b/c some of you will love this

http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2008/10/riot-survival-for-dummies.html

as opposed to new york, which is bitter year-round

mpls is never bitter

wait what happens in january

winter?

yeah but that happens every year

i bitch about it every year

This thread title...I don't believe in jinxes, but still.... Even if it isn't a jinx, it's a bit arrogant.

as opposed to new york, which is bitter year-round

― metametadata (n/a), Monday, November 3, 2008 3:48 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

Man, you're really stuck on this New York v Chicago thing, huh? Get over it.

I don't get the January thing. I hope that it didn't mean that we'll be bitter in the event of McCain's inauguration lol?

ok

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.

LOLhio

I sense a theme w/r/t governmental corruption and terrible hair.

Srsly, this guy must go to Phil Spector's barber.

http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2006/01/11/image1202860g.jpg

This has been a fabulous day.

This is disgraceful. They should declare martial law in Illinois.

I like how they busted him in his pajamas.

http://chicagoist.com/attachments/chicagoist_karl/suntimescover071708.jpg

Note: That is a real Sun Times cover from July '08. lolsob

Fucking Sun-Times. I used to have a friend who would buy the Sun-Times but read the Tribune.

Pub quiz was kind of hard tonight. Round 2 definitely wasn't a Simpsons-related holiday round. We would have benefited from someone who was raised devout Catholic, knew obscure 80s one hit wonder artists, and who recognized both a former NFL commissioner and the guy who played Lt. Worf on Star Trek TNG (among other tidbits).

i watched four episodes of battlestar galactica just now, only to discover that the LAST ONE is TO BE CONTINUED and i don't have the next disc yet. stupid show. I HAVE TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS. (don't tell me.)

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

oh man, I wish I'd've checked this thread today, I would liked to have gone to the pub quiz. And I probably would've recognized Michael Dorn/Worf too.

Next time! Tuesday nights.

Guys btw here is the Trio video I was talking about tonight:

Best part: when he says "Tomas" and looks at the camera.

knew obscure 80s one hit wonder artists

I maybe could have helped there!

Horseshoe, we are rewatching the series and are about in the same place - one episode ahead, and the next one is a DOOZY. Did u you: Hot Dog is Edward James Olmos's son in real life.

and the guy who played Lt. Worf on Star Trek TNG (among other tidbits).

yeah this is the only one i could have helped on.

http://media1.suntimes.com/multimedia/blagohome1.jpg_20081210_09_25_47_10-0-0.imageContent

Hahaha!

I may have been of some use on Catholic info. But, alas, wasn't there. I would like to go to Pub Quiz this month, as I have no Tuesday night rehearsals.

next week's is the last one for the year. i'd be down

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.