Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

A road trip to the Virgin Islands is a recipe for disaster and sogginess.

EVANSTON?!!?!?!??!!??!?!?!!??!?!?!

Hint: None of you will be able to guess the correct answer.

GRANT FORK

i don't know if i just made that place up or not. i think it's where my fil grew up, pop. 200.

are you gonna tell us o que

Chenoa, Illinois?

Jaymc, I would go to all this mustard museum.

The answer is here. We're waiting until October when it will be a little nicer.

Starved Rock is grebt. I actually thought of that first when you mentioned the trip (only because my mom and step-dad just went a couple weeks ago).

I'm pumped for some hiking and fresh, fall air.

And we won't have to be in the car that long to get there.

I also heartily recommend Devil's Lake SP in Wisconsin if you've never been there. We just went there for 3 nights/4 days and it was delightful. Lots of hiking and grilling.

Ooh... Maybe next year's road trip.

Someday I'll put the photos on flickr...when I'm done procrastinating on these 150 other things I've been putting off til the last minute.

Oh, I love Starved Rock. I've been there twice, once the day after prom and the next on a camping trip in 2001. It's beautiful. And Kr and I briefly considered going there when we realized that Door County and Saugatuck were both too rich for our blood.

Saugatuck is also too gay for our blood.

One of D's movies was in a sort of silly film fest there once (they paid for our hotel room and everything) and I saw Chr!stine Eli5e (the crazy girl on 9021O) there looking super butch. Also they had an ice luge for booze, which was the first time I had ever seen ANYthing like that. Ridiculous.

My dad went to that film festival last year.

Did he do shots off the booze luge?

(please say he did)

Ha, I dunno. The only booze luge I've seen was at a video-game release party that C4n4st4 played out in the suburbs a couple years ago.

BOOZE LUGE

LOOSE BOUGE

(ie bougie, ie bourgouisie)

NUGE CRUISE

ROUGE SNOOZE

(ie when you get makeup on your pillow because you were too tired to take it off before passing out)

"This pillow is evidence of a serious rouge snooze. That is in no small part thanks to the booze luge."

http://www.8notes.com/images/artists/john_mayer.jpg

BLUES DOUCHE

jaymc wins life.

douche and luge do not have the same final consonantal sound, though...tsk tsk

BLUES SPLOOGE

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BLOOZ COOZE

BOOZE CROOZE

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/06/21/cruise_narrowweb__300x431%2C0.jpg

snooze ooze

http://www.doguewood.com/images/Img114.jpg

BREWS SNOOZE

http://www.killsometime.com/Pictures/images/Pic1297.jpg

http://cdbaby.name/n/a/nanis.jpg

Amanda, I think \zh\, \z\, \sh\, \ch\, and \j\ are all fair game.

lol @ JEWZ BLOOZ

That guy with the beer cans on his head looks sort of like Nick.

Stop ruining funny words w/linguistics.

Sorry. There is a limited pool of words that ends with the same sound as "luge" so that is a more challenging item, that's all!

Carry on.

More challenging, yes, but I think we've said them all!

Except

DREW'S HUGE

http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/media.canada.com/66c351bf-5bcc-4443-96b4-553aa8e9375c/drew1.jpg?size=l

HUGE ROUGE?

http://www.destination360.com/europe/france/images/s/france-moulin-rouge.jpg

(MOULIN, that is)

By the way, I too had to sign in through w3hrd.

Yeah, ilxor.com is down for everyone because apparently they need to renew the URL or something.

O I C

I predict that in a few weeks to a couple of months the corn harvest is going to be TOTALLY RAD. This is corn-growin weather if I've ever seen it.

Wait a minute, HUGE is \j\, not \zh\.

We're really only talking about BOUGE, LUGE, and ROUGE, right? I can't think of any other words than end that way.