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QUOTE(shipps @ Feb 5, 2008 -> 09:42 AM) Lawrence's Fisheries on Canal and Cermak is always a good choice for shrimp.And they are priced cheap compared to other places that have just crazy prices for a lb. of shrimp.They are always open and there are always customers in there,I have been going there for 15 years. :headbang Love me some Lawrence's!!

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Feb 4, 2008 -> 03:36 PM) How can they look like idiots if you can't see them?

QUOTE(iamshack @ Feb 4, 2008 -> 08:41 PM) Oh, and one more thing. Anyone ever been to "The Diner" on Irving Park Road on the Northside for "the slinger"? You start with toast, followed by two all-beef hamburger patties, topped with two fried eggs, a couple of hefty helpings of chili, followed by plenty of hash browns....Wow, that is a huge late night delicacy....and if you finish it, you even get a certificate saying you finished the Slinger! That is a meal created by stoned people for other stoned people I think.

QUOTE(SnB @ Feb 4, 2008 -> 06:21 PM) no its not. Za's is a cheap fast food italian place, zorba's is still around, pretty close to wright/green. OK, good. I know they changed the name to "Z's" like the year after I left and I'm glad they changed it back.

QUOTE(ZoomSlowik @ Feb 4, 2008 -> 04:34 PM) I'll admit that I frequented La Bamba quite a bit down in Champaign, but after a while I moved on to El Desmadre (not even sure if it's there anymore, used to be between Za's (another one of my favorites) and Brother's on Green Street). . . Is "Za's" what Zorba's Greek resteraunt changed into? I worked there through most of my time at Champaign. . . prolly ate gyros 5x a week. Man I wich I could eat anything I wanted and not gain weight like when I was 20.

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Feb 4, 2008 -> 01:38 PM) No. The "EAT" sign was outside truck-stop near the mall. CC talking Mexican food had me thinking La Bamba - which was on Green St, but later relocated a block or so down to 6th St (?) just off Green. Incidently, the owners of La Bamba were from Chicago. I don't remember that sign. Out by Jumers?? The Chicago connection explains the quality of the la Bamba food.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 4, 2008 -> 01:30 PM) This guy. Basically just watching what I eat and trying to walk more. I'm at 228 and want to push the scale at 190, so I have a long way to go. I was thinking MOnday weigh ins and perhaps using this thread for tips and accountability. I'm right there with you. But I cheat quite a bit on the weekends, so a Friday weigh-in will reflect better on me than a Monday weigh in. I broke 200 pounds for the first time last year and that prompted me to join my wife on her annual death march diet. I was 205 on Jan 1 and my goal is to get to 165. The first 15 lbs came off easily enough, but it's starting to be slow-going now. I was 190 last Friday. Unfortunately I ate my arse off over the weekend, so we'll see where I am on Friday. Good luck.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 4, 2008 -> 12:21 PM) Where'd you get that one? I've only heard it as "Fool me once, shame on, shame on you...(10 second pause)...fool....you can't get fooled again." Queue the Neil Young outro.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 4, 2008 -> 11:17 AM) Have at it. Come on, Rocky! Your gonna eat lightning, and your gonna crap thunder!!

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Feb 4, 2008 -> 12:35 PM) You have me craving a La Bamba burrito. There was a place in Champaign that had a sign that was visible from quite a distance that said "EAT." The simplicity and directness of the sign always made me want to "eat" there. For months we talked about going there - it took some time because the place looked like a dump. Finally, we worked up the courage to go in, and to our great disappointment, the place had some class and was kind of costly. We decided to take our money elsewhere. Probably went Stackin' at Homestretch. If this was the original "burritos as big as your head" La Bamba on Green St., then it must have gone and got classy long after my departure. I ate there at least 2x a week for 2 years. Best chorizo burrito I ever had, especially after a night of knocking back a few pints of the blonde in the black skirt (that would be Guinness) at Murphy's. I greatly miss all the great the neighborhood burrito joints in Chicago. Some of them were excellent. A very good taqueria finally opened up down here last year near my work, and I ate there at least weekly until I started this $%@*%! New Year's diet.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Feb 3, 2008 -> 08:05 PM) Maria Shriver showed up unexpectedly at the Michelle/Oprah/Caroline event and endorsed Obama. Crowd went insane. Cool, somebody thank her and buy her a sammich. Seriously, that lady could use a big sammich or two.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Feb 2, 2008 -> 05:29 PM) I've got like 20 bucks in my wallet...I'm thinking about making a bid too. I don't know about Yahoo, but I know a couple of gals that will take 20 bucks to show you their hoohoo.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Feb 2, 2008 -> 10:44 AM) For as much as you laugh at your own jokes, you didn't even vote for yourself? I Kid Because I Can® You are correct, I couldn't even bring me to vote for me.

Looking at the results, apparently I was as funny as a tumor this year. And not the funny kind of tumor either.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Feb 2, 2008 -> 12:10 AM) Think about this. Your Yahoo! account now suddenly offers you the ability to use MS Word online. And since it interfaces with your MS Office so well, why bother using Google Docs? Microsoft has never been serious about disaggragating/decentralizing productivity apps or particular chunks of functionality of them, and I don't see them suddenly getting it now. At least in the short term.

QUOTE(knightni @ Feb 2, 2008 -> 03:32 AM) Bigger problem... Self-centeredness disguised as humanism that derives from blind religious intolerance. The real problem in both cases. . . intolerance.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Feb 1, 2008 -> 06:15 PM) Microsoft could give two s***s about search. Microsoft wants Yahoo's portal sites which are THE most visited on the web, so its about ad revenue and customer base. It's like buying the Superbowl of the Internet is how it was explained. The thing is, you can't separate search and advertising anymore. Yahoo's portals do get more hits than anything else on the web, but such a huge chunk of Google's ad revenue doesn't come from portal hits at all but from search-based ad matches. Combine that with the money they rake in from the hundreds of thousands of sites with Adsense deployed on it (contrast that with yahoo's Publisher Network which has been in beta since 2005) and I'm hard-pressed to believe Google is lacking in ad revenue and customer base.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 1, 2008 -> 03:54 PM) Its my prerogative. I can do what I want to do.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 1, 2008 -> 09:02 AM) He needs to forget about money and start raising some votes. He is fading into oblivion faster than Bobby Brown. Lay off of Bobby Brown. . . to his credit he's the only one to ever beat Houston almost as badly as the 2005 World Series Champs.

I think that aside from Google's marketshare and near-synonymy with Internet search, their technology development teams are just so good and so innovative that Micro-Yahoo still can't compete. All of the third-party mashup applications being built from Google technology is something that the insular-thinking Microsoft will just not be able to compete with imo. Edit to add: And I'm not just saying that to kiss up to Google because their VP of Engineering is my old college dorm and apartment mate. On the other hand. . . Jeff, if you see this you know I'm always available if you want me to head up development of Google Beer for you.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Feb 1, 2008 -> 11:01 AM) Boob jokes > Mime Jokes... c'mon people!!! I think the take-home message is that the lovely Mrs. Kucinich's boobs are nothing to koke about.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Feb 1, 2008 -> 10:24 AM) I have decreased, but have not quit. Actually next weekend is my neighbors annual beerfest. You know those HUGE bottles that some breweries make? I mean the ones that it takes like 3 or 4 people to hold? He has one of those coming in for the beerfest. How amazing is his beerfest exactly? How many "connections" does he have now? It's a bottle of Samiclaus that is coming in. Nice. A growler-sized bottle of Sami will knock a good dozen people on their arses in no time flat. Did you ever have the Hexenbrau from Hurliman, (the Samiclaus brewery) before they retired it? It was a decent dunkel, around 5.5%abv, but it didn't age particularly well.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Jan 31, 2008 -> 07:48 PM) Using that phrase like you did was quite a cunning stunt! Sort of reminds me of my giant hairy, smelly aunt.

QUOTE(bmags @ Jan 30, 2008 -> 07:10 PM) I know as a 21 year old student that I'd have no reason to care about sex. Bro, I would transfer to another campus if I were you.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jan 30, 2008 -> 04:06 PM) You know, I don't really know if I can make my point here. It's just that the Haight/Ashbury culture has pretty much had it's chance, didn't really do anything with it. This is their last shot at relevence, imo. Sure, SanFran is still very liberal, but the SanFran type of liberism is not mainstream America. There is a level of liberism that could grab the heartstrings of mainstream America, but the SF version is not it. In other words, I believe their time has passed. They may sneak on this election, because of Bush's total disregard of the constitution. But if they don't do it now, they never will. Basically, it's s*** or get off the pot. You think the Haight/Ashbury culture will ever get off the pot?!?