Chicago: Please don't park your Lamborghini on the highway

Topical.

And kind of tropical too.

We got spanked in trivia last night. Did pretty well in English, geography, science, and electives, but math and Greek mythology were pretty much bloodbaths. RIP Norsemen.

Actual headline on this morning's Sun Times:

Silence of the Lamborghini

WTF.

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rock n'f'n roll

Solo 7" from the frontman of...

Woah, this is a pretty funky jam, especially when Herb Alpert is not playing.

Last night was cheap drinkin and eatin! We went to Vines (yes, it's in stupid Wrigleyville, but the bar itself was very tolerable) where they had $1 Miller Lite bottles and 1/2 price sandwiches. I had 6 beers and a delicious turkey panini with fries. My bill was $11.50. With tip that's $20 for all that!

Plus the bartender bought us a round of shots.

Someone linked this on ILM yesterday. I don't care about Bob Seger, but this clip is pretty awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2aBOTNGWMY

Not trying to be condescending, but Jordan, you know that song was the basis for "Hypnotize" by the Notorious B.I.G., right?

HEY! Anyone want to go get all-you-can-stuff-in-your-gob crab legs with me tonight???? I think the time is right.

ohhhhhhhh

It's funna be a slooow Tuesday. L, the female partner is out on a case in Rock Isl. and J, the guy partner is taking the day off. And the associate is not yet in.

I NEED NEW MUSIC!! I'M SO FUCKING BORED WITH MY IPOD.

My private radio station

I understand the iPod boredom. In the last week I've swapped out about 10 gigs for new stuff.

That was entertaining, Nick.
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My ipod is dead. Long live my ipod. Oh wait. Too late for that...

My bill was $11.50. With tip that's $20 for all that!

awesome. I love it when shit is so dirt cheap you don't mind tipping a percentage that would otherwise seem exorbitant.

EXCUSE ME, I SAID SOMEONE EAT KING CRAB LEGS AVEC MOI, CE SOIR.

Not to get into a tipping discussion, but I think it's important to always tip on the amount your bill would have been PRE-discount.

I don't want to do that much math, but that seems reasonable. How much do I tip on this ridiculously cheap bill? A lot.

where are these crab legs?

Jordan, throw me some Greek mythology trivia! Love that shit -- but I didn't learn it in HIGH SCHOOL, that's for fucking sure.

All I know about Greek mythology I learned in a song in second grade:

Pan, Pan, Greek God Pan,
One half goat and one half man

I was way into King Arthur in middle school. Don't know much about the greeks, tbh.

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Mordred's armor is still super fuckin creepy awesome.

meh. tripod image. Oh well.

That's some futuristic armor.

I freaking adore the production design and costuming in that movie. And also the rest of it.

but math and Greek mythology were pretty much bloodbaths

Yeah, they would've been for me, too. Even when I was in high school Scholastic Bowl, I ceded all the mythology questions to one of the other guys on the team.

Okay, but no googling:

1) Name one of the Fates.

2) Cronus cut off who's testicles and threw them into the sea, leading to the birth of what god or goddess (two parts)?

3) What god of strife participated in the Trojan War?

Other questions may have been more obscure, but I can't remember them well enough.

nope. nothin'.

1. Okay I can't off the top of my head
2. First answer I wd guess Uranus, the second is def Aphrodite
3. Ares/Mars

My only guess would be Tiresias for #2.

Although I don't think s/he was a god/goddess as much as a prophet.

Laurel's 2 & 3 are right, I couldn't remember fucking Uranus (probably because I associate all the planet names w/the Roman versions).

hm. I googled, and some of that was still hard to tease out

1) Clotho, Lachesis, or Atropos
2) Uranus (his father), Aphrodite
3) Eris

For the Fates, I could only think of the muses. I knew the fates did stuff with thread, but they have hard names to remember (Lachesis, Atropos, and Clotho)(well, I guess Clotho makes sense).

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(well, I guess Clotho makes sense).

??

Oh make the leap.

cognate with "cloth", and they're spinning, measuring, & cutting the cloth of life and all that bullshit

Yeah, Jordan, I was just looking up the Muses like two days ago and that's all I could think of!

Oh, I didn't see "did stuff with thread." I had no idea what a Fate was.

You're right, Laurel, that that's definitely not high-school material. I mean, I picked up a little from sophomore year English class, when we read Oedipus Rex and Antigone and The Odyssey, oh and then senior year we read Prometheus Bound, but I don't remember ever studying mythology on its own, unconnected to literature.

We went over some in Latin, but not intensively.

Yeah, not for me either! I was a mythology reader as a kid and a Classical Civ minor in college, but that is DEFFO not HS stuff not because it's particularly HARD but just because no one studies it anymore!

It would make me really happy as a trivia category, though. :D

Yeah, I had a great time, but unfort. the upcoming trivia themes are all bullshit geek stuff, like Star Wars or Joss Whedon shows.

i can't do it cos your airport's too shit to let me post pictures!

that's really too bad.

Thank goodness for small favors.

Good Job.

o'hare is our sorely inadequate airport, and we really should build another, but we never will. Welcome!

:)

btw how much will i have to tip the bar person if i go and get a drink? is it like $1?

Yes, a dollar.

$1 a drink is safe. But at airport prices, I say stiff 'em. Seven dollar beer? Christ almighty.

btw plz do not actually stiff 'em, Jesse will never forgive me.

Also, we have two airports, Kenan! But plans for a third have been tied up in Springfield for years.

thanks! i'll do $1 since i'm on holiday and all that! bye chicago ilx! xx

I think Kenan was kidding.

do you really imagine I am unaware that we have two airports? :)

But yeah, o'hare is the big hub, of, like, everywhere, and getting stuck at o'hare is like some kind of traveler's rite of passage. Which does not leave the best impression of Chicago.

BTW, this made me sort of L, but not OL

"""That's my new thing. Instead of saying "a whole different animal," it's "a whole different buffalo." Try it, it's fun. :)""""

oh thanks for mentioning it then.

although "different buffalo" really is better and more fun. You have to give me that.

OK, sorry, the sarcasm was lost on me because I thought you were making a reference to the long-standing dispute over where to build Chicago's third airport.

I like "different buffalo," too.

I thought you were making a reference to the long-standing dispute over where to build Chicago's third airport.

I was! I'm sorry, I'm loopy, it's not impossible that I'm posting really confusing things.

I mean, O'Hare is our Big Airport, Midway is just a kind of dinky little place where the budget flights come from. O'Hare is inadequate for what it is, which is the busiest airport in America.

I thought he was clearly dismissing Midway b/c hardly anything goes there, anyway, and O'Hare is the only REAL airport in Chicago. And the reference to the non-existent 3rd 'port is self-explanatory. xp right.

I like Midway. there are hot dogs there.

I think Atlanta-Hartfield may be #1 now.

Looked it up to check myself, and I was wrong. It's not the busiest airport in America. Atlanta is. Chicago is second. BTW, those are also #1 and #2 worldwide.

http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/3296489/

xpost Jaymc beat me to the stats. :)

xpost I mean Hartsfield-Jackson. The one in Atlanta. Right.

Yeah, I remember fact-checking the World's Busiest Airports table a few months ago.

mmmmm pancit

Pancit Bijon, I guess. nom nom nom

ok guys we need a new thread, but I don't want to think of the name. Step up, muhfugs.

I'm back from lunch. Most people got the "touchdown burger", which includes ham, bacon, and a fried egg.

xp We're good for at least 1000 more answers, chillax.

^^^^OMG THRED TITLE!

1 is busiest in terms of number of passengers, the other is busiest in terms of number of flights.

which is which?

Dan showed me
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I don't know, Kenan. But that's how it is.

according to wiki, o'hare hasn't held any claim at all since 2004. :(

I got caught up in Chi bragging, I guess.

Spatlese = dry, kabinett = sour patch sweet

When will that gif get some much-needed release? Poor ascii cock. It's been anesthetized. :(

Doomed! To forever jerk off, unable to stop, unable to finish.

I've had mornings like that. :(

Classic= JUUUUUST RIIIIIGHT
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better start a new thread before it gunks this one up

He's building up some serious volume up there, yo.

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Why is this at the top of my Gmail????

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejaculation

the video is u+k. Totally hands free! Is that a common ability, or did they find this guy on a very exclusive mailing list?

OK NOW WE REALLY FUCKING NEED A NEW THREAD

RIGHT NOW

NOW

think of a title, and we can both have our wish!

Chicago: OK NOW WE REALLY FUCKING NEED A NEW THREAD
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