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QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Mar 25, 2009 -> 11:18 PM) I'm not sure of many businesses that depend on the SSI. A lot of people end up just drinking on the route or going to garages or going to actual parties. The bars absolutely depend on it, and they all obviously make a killing that day. I'd suspect they were/will be the most vocal businesses against the deciesion. They'll just have to get creative and figure out ways to hold their own self-contained events during St. Patrick's week/month from now on.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Mar 25, 2009 -> 02:30 PM) There are correct answers so far for 1, 4, 6, 7, and 9. Answers To Quiz: 4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside..... Strawberry. I think this should include Pineapple, that was my guess No on pineapple. It's a bromeliad that is commercially propagated through cut cultivars and most commercial cultivars lack seeds which negatively effect fruit quality. Now, corn, on the other hand, should be accepted. And yes, corn is technically a fruit and not a vegetable since it's basically the seeds and over-ripened ovaries of the plant that we are consuming.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Mar 25, 2009 -> 01:56 PM) 1-Iditarod (sled dog racing) 8-Avocado 1 is definately boxing. I think you're right with avacado. Well done.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Mar 25, 2009 -> 01:49 PM) 6. Dwindle, Dwell, Dweeb 7. Comma, Semi-Colon, Colon, Exclamation Mark, Question Mark, Period, quotation mark, hyphen (not sure on the last 2) 8. Bananas 9. Shoes, Sandles, Socks, Slippers, stockings, sneakers (if that counts), skates Is dweeb in the dictionary? Certainly you can buy frozen bananas, banana puree, etc. I'm thinking kiwi fruit.

I can't get questions 2 or 3 so far, and I only have two of the "dw" words (dwindle. dwarf). The rest I'm pretty sure i know. The pear brandy one is a really interesting story.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 25, 2009 -> 01:06 PM) South Side Irish St. Patrick's Parade ending March 25, 2009 12:00 PM | No Comments Organizers of the South Side Irish St. Patrick's Day Parade on Western Avenue said today they would no longer hold the event "in its present form." I wonder what other forms parades come in. I grew up in Beverly, and most of my family is still there. My brother lives on 101st and Oakley and his house is ground zero for the parade before- and after parties. The last few years, everybody has been amazed the plug hasn't already been pulled. A half-million people and no public bathrooms, lots of underage intoxication and all of the liability associated with it, most of the attendees driving in from the north side, and using the neighborhood as a urinal. . . etc, etc. Maybe the event just got too big for its own good. Sad to see it go, but I can understand it.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Mar 25, 2009 -> 02:08 AM) I dunno, Chamberlin's drumming is a pretty integral part of their music. Maybe the next release will sound like Adore, Part 2. I actually grew to really like Adore probably more quickly than most people and I think all in all it might be better than everything but the first two albums. That said, I kind of got tired of the Corgan Experience during the Zwan days and I'm not expecting anything great out of him these days.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Mar 25, 2009 -> 01:52 AM) Fact is, the company has products, so it is not a ponzi scheme. I see lostfan's point here and agree with him regarding a lot of companies. Some of the products the company is built around are still under development, though they are usually touted as the Next Big Thing, likely to change the (insert field of your choice) industry forever, so the sales reps are urged to "get in on the ground floor", etc. Complete smoke and mirrors about a product that is usually very average to subpar or doesn't even really exist yet. It's a logical outgrowth of good salesmanship I guess - the ability to sell someone anything, even if in some cases it's nothing at all.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Mar 24, 2009 -> 01:05 PM) There are much better pizzas to be had Yep. You just had to leave Carbondale to find them.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Mar 24, 2009 -> 02:01 PM) There was a trainer at the gym I went to who was fat. I don't mean a little overweight, the guy was enormous. My friends and I would laugh our asses off when he was wearing his red shirt with "trainer" on the back. We called him "fat trainer" or "obese trainer." after like a week or two he switched to a shirt that said "staff" on the back. I always wondered what Herm Schneider did before he landed the gig with the White Sox.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Mar 24, 2009 -> 12:58 PM) the anchovies were most certainly drained(not rinsed or dried) by the cooks, and there was most definitely more oil than there is in sausage and pepperoni. You can debate with me all day long, but I have seen and delivered thousands of pizzas, and the oil that came off of this pizza could have been poured in and filled up a cup. diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisgusting. And I am pretty open to trying new food, this was just not right. I suspect Carbondale's finest pizza joint is just not up to the task.

:cheers

Today is the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill.

Go see the Freemont Troll, and spend a half-day or so at the pike Place market - those are some free/low-cost activities. Go see Jimi's gravesite memorial if you are a fan. If you have the $$, go on an orca whale watching trip.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Mar 24, 2009 -> 10:18 AM) That is the first and last time I will ever eat an anchovy (sp?) pizza. The fish oil makes the cheese gross, there is practically a pool of oil sitting on top of the cheese, it just makes the entire pizza gamey. Never, ever again. And I have yet to meet someone who likes an anchovy pizza Nice to meet you. There's no more oil in the anchovies than there is in sausage and pepperoni, however you made that pie you did something wrong. It does give the pizza a rather strong taste, but it's a nice salty-fishy-oily flavor. I don't prefer anchovies on real Chicago pizza, but on the NY style pizza I'm stuck with down here anchovy and mushroom is a great pie.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 11:54 AM) This will either be awesome or terrible. Or it can be both at the same time, like the original Bakshi cartoon series.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 10:04 AM) Im a fan of the entire sausage layer like at Ginos as well. Officially very hungry now.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 09:10 AM) Jim, do you have a recipe? That would be worth mixing up. I've never tried to approximate Chicago sausage for fear of suffering an Icarus-like fate and flying too close to the sun in a foolhardy quest to recreate the Food of the Gods.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 08:57 AM) Actually that's not what Tex is talking about, he clarified. The stuff you are eating now is NOT the way it's supposed to be made, at all. It's cheap crap. I'm certainly not talking about the nasty stuff that passes for sausage at the chains andeverywhere else in the country. Real Chicago sausage is the only thing, and I miss it dearly.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 08:56 AM) Yes, that's almost impossible to get now unless you go to one of the hole in the wall Italian mafioso type places. They do exist, I'm just not saying where. Those are the only places worth going to, otherwise why bother when you are in Chicago? Mafioso??

QUOTE (Texsox @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 08:53 AM) The real sausage is what I ate in Chicago for 35 years, not the sliced stuff that is available anywhere. The true Chicago sausage blend, with the fennel, is almost unheard of anywhere else. Again, the man is spot on. And why not, he was there when Chicago pizza was invented.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 08:48 AM) Wrong. Oh how I miss real sausage on a pizza. Tex is 100% correct. QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 23, 2009 -> 08:50 AM) How is that wrong? If you want *REAL* sausage pizza, you do what I said, and then you get it. I think your joke went over my head. :/ Sliced sausage isn't Chicago-style sausage pizza (not that Italian sausage in and of itself isn't wonderful, it is). It's supposed to be the "turd sausage", with the carraway seeds and all the incredible spices. If that doesn't taste right to you, you are going to the wrong pizza joints.

I've had an out-of-control car dream sort of like that, where I'm either driving in a car without brakes, or else i'm haveing to drive a car with a remote control and it gets too far away for me to b able to judge the turns and such. I'm always just about to get into an awful crash and I'm very agitated but the dream ends before I actually crash. I guess that's supposed to be a manifestation of me feeling like events in my life are out of control or something, but that's been a recurring one almost as much as the final exam for the class you forgot you signed up for dream for me.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 22, 2009 -> 01:37 PM) Here's one, I had it a few times in college. I was in a fraternity house, running around it in circles. And there was snow on the ground, inside. I was chasing Sir George Solti, who was in a pair of polka dot shorts, and I was throwing snowballs at him. Enjoy. Were you a frustrated orchestral musician in another life? That's an interesting one.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Mar 22, 2009 -> 01:30 PM) Sweet Dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree?