Yeah Kelsey, I went for 20 minutes and then they stopped to have a dinner, and I left.
― Jordan, Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
what is the 'a' vs. 'an' rule when using a vowel-sounding initial for a word that does not sound like a vowel?
― sweet tater, Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
did you eat apples & honey? does that happen?
there was an ad on tv last night for some sort of oreo pizza and it had this guy with a fake mustache made up of bits of oreo and frosting and it made me want to never eat oreos again.
i am eating mangoes and watermelon.
― JuliaA, Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
WAIT NO NO THIS SHIRT
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/deadkitty13/cowboyshirt1front.jpg
― kenan, Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I have seen that ad & I completely agree!!! The cookies I am thinking of are of the homemade variety.
― sweet tater, Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I did not, but I remember apples & honey when I was a kid.
― Jordan, Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
IT HAS TIGER STRIPES AND BONES AND A BOTTLE OF POISON AND IF YOU DO NOT GET THIS SHIRT I WILL
― kenan, Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
You go by the sound, not the letter. Like "a university." If that's what you're asking?
― jaymc, Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
FRINGE! ALSO FRINGE!
I have been killfiled for the day, haven't I? I deserve that.
― kenan, Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
That looks like a Kenan shirt. :>
― Jordan, Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah what the fuck is up with that oreo pizza WTF
OMG, the Western shirts just made me remember Chris and Heather's Record Roundup, which, uh, closed like 6 years ago, AOL City Guide.
― jaymc, Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I am not wearing that shirt.
― n/a, Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
that isn't what I'm asking.
what i mean is if i say "I'm attending a/an RH dinner tonight" vs. "I'm attending a Rosh Hashanah dinner tonight"
xpost: john! i was remembering that recently!
― sweet tater, Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
that shirt is a postmodern melange.
― kenan, Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
So this was only the second time I've had potato pancakes. The first time they were kind of thick and greasy. This time they were small and thin, basically the size and shape of silver dollar pancakes. The first time was better, and I'm presuming they were more "authentic" since they came from a Chicago deli instead of an Evanston pancake shop.
It would be "an RH dinner."
― n/a, Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Can I get away with "a RH" or do I have to use 'an'?
― sweet tater, Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
nick, that is what i thought despite my typing otherwise out of rebellion.
Potato pancakes/latkes should be unctuous
― Jordan, Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
My instinct would be "an RH," but it's tricky, because I know you're just using that abbreviation as shorthand and would actually say "Rosh Hashanah" if you were saying it aloud, like you would never actually pronounce it as "arr-aitch."
― jaymc, Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
What John said applies, it's just weird because you go based on pronunciation, and R is pronounced "arrr" like it has a vowel sound at the beginning so you would use "an." I'm not sure why it's that way, because it doesn't usually seem like the written word to anything based on verbal rules if it doesn't want to.
― n/a, Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
IT'S A PERFECTLY CROMULENT WORD
xpost
― Jordan, Thursday, 13 September 2007 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
So this was only the second time I've had potato pancakes
waht
I LIVED IN INDIA etc.
― n/a, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I've only had them once in my life (in Jefferson Park), and I don't have the India excuse. I thought they were incredibly greasy and it grossed me out.
― KitCat, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think Indian food is all that different from Eastern European food.
― jaymc, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
HAHHAHA
― Jesse, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
High-five to jaymc!
I just have this urge to give high-fives!
There are potatoes in some Indian food, and naan is kind of like pancakes.
― n/a, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
(Note: I basically ate no Indian food the whole time I was in India.)
― n/a, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, aloo paratha is not dissimilar from potato pancakes, in seriousness.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
wait, Nick, waht?
I'm not true to my Scandinavian heritage. All of the food looked mushy and colorless to me (and meaty).
― KitCat, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I would probably prefer the ones Nick had today.
Ha ha. It was a combo of:
1. Me being an obnoxious teenager 2. Me insisting that I didn't like spicy food 3. Me desperately trying to hold onto any sense of an American identity that I could
We did eat out at Indian restaurants sometimes, I would usually just eat meat and bread.
― n/a, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I get that, actually. I missed American food something fierce after the second week of my most recent visit.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Do yourselves a favor, please read this http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/bro_youre_a_god_among_bros
it just saved Jenny's life.
― Jesse, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha I love that one
― Jordan, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
ahahaha potassium bromide
― dan m, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link
That went above and beyond.
― jaymc, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link
it brovercame!
― horseshoe, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
eh
― n/a, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I like how it ramps up the silliness throughout the article, so that by the end he's just saying random stuff like "Brover Norquist."
― jaymc, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Brosh Hashanah
― Jordan, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Bro v. Wade!!!
It gets to be a frenzy.
― Jesse, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link
what rights were guaranteed in the Bro vs. Wade case, do you think?
― kenan, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
also, what is the distinction between "to bro down" and "to bro up"?
― horseshoe, Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, the MCA is doing a ton of free shit over the next 40 days for their 40th anniversary. Sarah and I might go tomorrow to actually check out the art, but also Oct. 7 is a free concert with Flosstradamus, Cool Kids, Califone, Poster Children, the 1900s, the Eternals, and Headache City.
Event listings here: http://www.mcachicago.org/40/index.php?page=home.
― n/a, Friday, 28 September 2007 14:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Bitchin': http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=56
― n/a, Friday, 28 September 2007 14:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I had no idea the Poster Children were still performing.
― n/a, Friday, 28 September 2007 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
aw, I missed The Office. I went to see a play at the Goodman written by a woman who was at my college at the same time I was. she's written like eleventy well-received plays. WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE??
― horseshoe, Friday, 28 September 2007 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
new thread:
Chicago: More Bars in More Places
― kenan, Friday, 28 September 2007 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck you
― n/a, Friday, 28 September 2007 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I post a ton of actually useful information and this is the thanks I get.
I'm going to sit in here in the dark by myself.
dude... it's time. I know some people don't care how long it is, but thanks to the standard 50/50 post split, not everyone can keep up, and loading 3500 ro so messages gets to be a pain.
― kenan, Friday, 28 September 2007 14:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Besides, the thread title is cute!
― kenan, Friday, 28 September 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Go away, I'm sulking in here.
― n/a, Friday, 28 September 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link