Chicago: Totally hands-free!!!

IT HAS TIGER STRIPES AND BONES AND A BOTTLE OF POISON AND IF YOU DO NOT GET THIS SHIRT I WILL

You go by the sound, not the letter. Like "a university." If that's what you're asking?

FRINGE! ALSO FRINGE!

I have been killfiled for the day, haven't I? I deserve that.

That looks like a Kenan shirt. :>

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.

I am not wearing that shirt.

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!

that shirt is a postmodern melange.

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."

Can I get away with "a RH" or do I have to use 'an'?

nick, that is what i thought despite my typing otherwise out of rebellion.

Potato pancakes/latkes should be unctuous

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."

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.

IT'S A PERFECTLY CROMULENT WORD

xpost

So this was only the second time I've had potato pancakes

waht

I LIVED IN INDIA etc.

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.

I don't think Indian food is all that different from Eastern European food.

HAHHAHA

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.

(Note: I basically ate no Indian food the whole time I was in India.)

yeah, aloo paratha is not dissimilar from potato pancakes, in seriousness.

wait, Nick, waht?

I'm not true to my Scandinavian heritage. All of the food looked mushy and colorless to me (and meaty).

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.

I get that, actually. I missed American food something fierce after the second week of my most recent visit.

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.

Haha I love that one

ahahaha potassium bromide

That went above and beyond.

it brovercame!

eh

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."

Brosh Hashanah

Bro v. Wade!!!

It gets to be a frenzy.

what rights were guaranteed in the Bro vs. Wade case, do you think?

also, what is the distinction between "to bro down" and "to bro up"?

I have never heard "bro up"!

I've never heard bro up. Bitch up, yes.

Bitch up? I've heard "man up" and "cowboy up."

I remember having long conversations in college about "smoke up" vs. "smoke down" in which we determined that one of the two (no idea which now) was "an Ohio thing."

bro down: chillin, hangin at somebody's house with some tunes and some video games

bro up: donning the striped shirt, getting serious, getting wild, getting drunk, getting teh ladiez (or not)

"down" and "up" indicate the overall energy level required.

"Smoke down" must be the Ohio thing, I've never heard that one.

"bro up" is from that article!

"Who was the first to bro up and carry that fucking keg of k*ll*an's up four flights of stairs for Duke's surprise party?"

I guess it's like "man up" but more bro-y.

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.

Besides, the thread title is cute!

Go away, I'm sulking in here.