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QUOTE (DBAHO @ Dec 2, 2008 -> 09:57 AM) True. I honestly have no idea what that is. The person below me will be eating out for lunch today. False. I'll be eating canned chicken cold from the ca n at my desk. Am I living the High Life? The person below me will be having a considerably more satisfying lunch than me.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 1, 2008 -> 07:52 PM) And how did that beer get to your hand? Who brought it off the truck to the cooler, who brought it most likely up stairs in bulk and placed it in the cooler nicely and cleanly so that you get a nice clean cold beer? Part of the tip goes to those guys too. And yes, bartenders can pull down a couple of hundred dollars on a weekend which helps offset the weekday nights when they make crap. Its not a very glamerous gig no matter what it looks like when you are out on a weekend night ordering from them. And when I was slinging drinks on the regular I ALWAYS knew who treated me nicely, and who tipped. To me, the most important thing is for the customer to be courteous and patient, which is about 10 percent of patrons on a weekend night. i agree with you on all counts, but why the hell can't most bartenders actually mix a decent drink? I know, it mostly comes down to the time required to accurately mix something, but there are a lot of cocktails where eyeballing a 3-second pour just doesn't cut it. And that's a legitimate reason for drinking at home. Not because you might be too pour to tip, but because you're tired of crappy drinks.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Dec 1, 2008 -> 07:01 PM) False, never even heard of 'em. The person below me thinks they should get rid of the fan vote to determine All Stars. True, except for White Sox fans. The person below me has seen the Blues Brothers at least 25 times.

QUOTE (Markbilliards @ Dec 1, 2008 -> 06:11 PM) False. I'm way cooler than I think I am. The person below me has bench pressed 350LBS, squated 500 LBS, or ran a 5 minute mile in their life. True! And it wasn't squatting or benchpressing, let me tell you. I used to be fast. Now I'm just fat. The person below me owns a pair of Chuck Taylor high tops.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Dec 1, 2008 -> 04:47 PM) False...but only for emergencies. The person below me owns skis. Snow or Water. True. The person below me thinks they are way cooler than they actually are.

False. The person below me wants an iPhone for Christmas.

It's like Metropolis, IL for Trekies. It's Vulcan, Alberta, Canada!Is this Balta's next vacation destination??

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Dec 1, 2008 -> 02:31 AM) False. The person below me believes that this 'person below you' thread could go on forever. False. Soxtalkers don't have that sort of attention span. The person below me thinks that Post Nasal Drip is a disgusting-sounding cereal that should never have seen grocery store shelves.

There's a very modern one in Northbrook that is considered architecturally significant as an "adapted" (versus "imported") form. See the image below. You're probably going to be hard-pressed to find an architecdturally/aesthetically convincing imported/traditional mosque anywhere in the US, though this one from Toledo looks impressive

How about the misconception that the nickname "Windy City" actually refers to the winds coming off the lake?

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Nov 27, 2008 -> 08:07 PM) I remember hearing also thats where they filmed a lot of the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. That is an urban legend. The film was shot mostly in Munich, and the factory exterior shots were actually of the Munich Gaswerks. The closing sequence aerials were in over an Alpine Bavarian village.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Nov 30, 2008 -> 11:39 PM) False. I had company over , including a dolphin fan who had Adrian Peterson on his fantasy team. Rough night. The Person below me loves Grey Goose. False - for the price anyway. All vodka is pretty much the same (other than the flavored stuff), and a number of blind taste tests have confirmed this. The person below me was @ The Cell for Opening Day last year.

In the last two years MapQuest has gone from being a really useful tool to a bloated, slow, useless pile of crap.

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Nov 30, 2008 -> 04:44 PM) False The person below me hates a professional athlete. TRUE, though hate is such an ugly word. The person below me has stretched the truth in a resume', job application, or job interview.

I dislike the idea of tipping and I wish the service industry paid a living wage that would make it unnecessary, but that's not the case. maybe it's a holdover from having worked in the service industry when i was younger, but I'm not going to take my frustration in the status quo out on the person waiting on me. I won't tip extravagantly unless service is outstanding, but I also won't really tip cheap unless the service was awful. Sadly, service tends to be subpar in most places these days and Iwish that wasn't the case. QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Nov 30, 2008 -> 07:01 PM) Oh and I hate tipping when a bartender gets me a bottle of beer. Turning around and grabbing something is not worth a dollar. I usually just tip every other beer in that situation. I agree throwing a guy a tip because he opened you a beer is insane, but if you don't do it, see how long you wait at the bar for service after stiffing the server the last couple rounds. My days of going out to the bars a couple times a week are long over, so when I do get a chance to go out I'm going to enjoy myself and tip the servers and not worry about the few bucks I'd still have in my pocket if I went cheap. Now, here's where I seem to differ from most people. I think tipping your garbage guys and your mail carriers at Christmas is extreme and it's not something I do. If they had to walk up a long driveway every day to deliver the mail then maybe I could see doing it, but I feel that is unnecessary. How do other people here feel about that?

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Nov 25, 2008 -> 04:15 PM) You older guys might remember a song called "I don't wanna lose your love" by The Outfield, kind of a big radio hit in the 80's. Anyway, that song gets a LOT of heavy rotation around here. It's always on the radio and playing at the bars. I hadn't heard that song in like 15 years. Has it made some kind of comeback?....or is it just around here? No comeback for that song around here. At the time the song came out I thought it was too overproduced, but I've grown to like it more over time. Midtown did a good cover version.

QUOTE (The Critic @ Nov 25, 2008 -> 11:50 AM) With rolling papyrus, of course!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 25, 2008 -> 08:19 AM) His grass... In Eygpt : We call it papyrus. And stay the hell off it!!

Going to be up in north Florida doing the Thanksgiving family camping trip, and it's going to get down to freezing the first night out there. I just finished a 5-hour simmer on a crockpot full of holiday hot buttered rum mix that we can heat up in a kettle on the Coleman and spike with rum by the campfire. Drank a test mug to make sure it came out right. Then drank another just to double check. Now I am sipping on my third mug and I'd better stop or there won't be any left to take camping.

A big-ass interstellar space ship spit the Great Pyramid out, everybody knows that.

QUOTE (Soxy @ Nov 23, 2008 -> 08:55 PM) And my neti pot. eeewwwww. . . wwwww. ww.

QUOTE (shipps @ Nov 23, 2008 -> 10:26 AM) Iam being completely serious when I say this...drink a half a bottle of Jack and in the morning you will feel like s*** but it will be a hangover and not the bug you got.I believe alcohol can kill alot of viruses that we get. I'm obviously going to the wrong doctor.

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 23, 2008 -> 10:37 AM) So, Flaxx... You'd rather enjoy a Pusser than Mount Gay, huh? Yes, given the choice. . . But I can go Gay when the situation calls for it.

I mixed up my very first real Sazarac last night. Other than Beam, I've had a hard time finding many 100% rye whiskeys. I finally found Old Overhart 4 year KY rye yesterday, and that seems to be the grand of choice in 'nawlins for sazaracs, so I gave it a spin. Arguably the fist cocktail ever invented, and not a timid drink by any means. 2oz of rye shaken with 1 tsp of simple syrup, 4 good dashes of Peychaud's bitters (Peychaud was a Creole apothecarywho invented the sazarac), a small dash of Angoustora. . . shake and pour into a rocks glass that has been chilled and coated with a swirl of Pernod (they use Herbsaint in New Orleans), squeeze in the oil from a lemon twist and you have a sazarac. 180 degrees opposite most of the rum drinks I've been spinning, but a really memorable long sipper. My wife made her best ugghh! face when sdhe tried it, so it must be good.

I didn't grow up knowing the wonders of rum and it took a move to the subtropics to awaken my rum lust. I remember doing a couple week research stint out on an island in the Exuma Chain in the Bahamas and having my first formidable encounters with serious rum drinking. Had some really rough mornings and wasn't sure I had the rum-drinking gene at first. It turns out it just hadn't fully expressed itself. Appletons is always a good bet, but after a year of playing around with more than a dozen gold rums I have decided that without a doubt Mount Gay Eclipse is the most versatile readily available gold rum. Barbados is the presumed birthplace of the spirit, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Unbelievably good rum at a great price, smooth enough to pass for a sipper with a lime twist, and mixes well with almost everything. There are better drink-specific rums. A Pusser's painkiller beats out one with Mount Gay by a nose. But when substituting in a drink that I usually use a 5 year Demerara in, Mount Gay may not quite make the drink sing, but it definitely knows the tune and can hum along. By contrast, subbing with something like Bacardi gold just leaves the drink flat and unbalanced. Bottom line - Mount Gay is a really good broad-use one to have on hand if you don't plan on keeping a bunch of specialty bottles on hand.