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$99 to cure a hangover?

Obviously they've never heard of greasy breakfast and a joint.

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Just in time for New Year's, Dr. Jack Dybis, a trauma and general surgeon at Evanston Hospital, has opened Chicago's first hydration clinic, Revive, at 222 W. Ontario St., Suite 450.

For $99 the medical staff will sooth your nausea, headache and cotton mouth with intravenous fluids, vitamins and medications as needed.

I went to college with Christian Schwarzkopf, who was a year younger than me.

I remember being slightly jealous when he (Norman) was the commencement speaker at Graduation the year after I left.

Then, when I moved to Telluride after school he (Norman) was there frequently too. 

But I never ran into him.

#missedconnections

/penstory.

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Quote from: SKO on December 27, 2012, 03:48:43 PM
Can any of the lawyers (or Gil) on this messageboard tell me how the fuck this makes any sense? : http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/iowa-court-bosses-can-fire-irresistible-workers/article_011a69c8-4bba-11e2-9d99-0019bb2963f4.html

My explanation is that apparently it doesn't take much to be an appellate court judge in Iowa.  According to the all male court the boss fired her because of feelings and emotions, not gender.  It is her own fault for having too many exagerated female characteristics.  I suppose that if he developed an intense hatred of her skin color it would not because of her race, but because of his feelings and emotions about that color.  No.  I can't explain it.

Well it is possible he would of fired a male assistant to whom he was attracted.

Also, in Iowa, it's apparently customary to consult your pastor on human resources decisions.

It is seriously irresponsible to post this article and continue this conversation without an image of the plaintiff.

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in the final months of her employment, he complained that her tight clothing was distracting, once telling her that if his pants were bulging that was a sign her clothes were too revealing.

Pretty sure it's not her clothes that are too revealing. 

Quote from: Tonker on December 26, 2012, 11:33:43 AM
Gerry Anderson, creator of ThunderbirdsCats, Captain Scarlet Kangaroo, Stingray, Space 1999 Ghost and many, many more slices of my childhood.  I don't know if any of this stuff made it to the States - "Team America" makes me think it probably did - but it was fucking great.

Yeah, we totally had those.

Agreed. Thanks to Chuck and Fork for not being online this morning.

Despite the fun we had at his expense, this is tragic as hell.

Ryan Freel, dead at 36 after committing suicide.

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Quote from: Internet Apex on December 18, 2012, 09:06:10 PM
Ok. God damnit.

Maybe we can throw Boston out too. Chicago should finish no lower than 7th. They can finish as high as 3rd depending on what the Hawks do trade-wise. I'm not all that impressed with the Bulls but I don't think anybody is and it doesn't matter. Their style wins games in the regular season. If they can maintain this pace and the physical toil that accompanies it from January - March, they'll be in the hunt for the 4th seed. I still think Indiana and Brooklyn will improve. The Bucks are who we thought they were. Philly and Boston are dogshit despite high hopes for them.

That's where we agree. I think we all agree. The Bulls are stale as two week Butternut and yet they're still good enough to win enough games to get them into the playoffs. I didn't actually think they'd get home court (did I?) but they're definitely a playoff team and that's all I said from the start.

Fun playin games with ya heart.

Also, if Noah keeps this up does anyone think they could trade him into some hot goods?

Absolutely. And if they can't they could do just fine by keeping him around. I'm going to go kill myself now.

BUMPING this again for fun.

The guy has exceeded all of my expectations and stopped acting like a total gash. There you go. Have your moment.

Hilariously, this is almost exactly what you said the last time I brought this up.

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Quote from: Internet Apex on December 18, 2012, 09:06:10 PM
Ok. God damnit.

Maybe we can throw Boston out too. Chicago should finish no lower than 7th. They can finish as high as 3rd depending on what the Hawks do trade-wise. I'm not all that impressed with the Bulls but I don't think anybody is and it doesn't matter. Their style wins games in the regular season. If they can maintain this pace and the physical toil that accompanies it from January - March, they'll be in the hunt for the 4th seed. I still think Indiana and Brooklyn will improve. The Bucks are who we thought they were. Philly and Boston are dogshit despite high hopes for them.

That's where we agree. I think we all agree. The Bulls are stale as two week Butternut and yet they're still good enough to win enough games to get them into the playoffs. I didn't actually think they'd get home court (did I?) but they're definitely a playoff team and that's all I said from the start.

Fun playin games with ya heart.

Also, if Noah keeps this up does anyone think they could trade him into some hot goods?

Absolutely. And if they can't they could do just fine by keeping him around. I'm going to go kill myself now.

BUMPING this again for fun.

Quote from: Fork on December 18, 2012, 03:51:54 PM

Hey, this show is still on.

I read back through this thread to remember that it used to be funny. Now watching it feels like going through the motions.

Who is going through the motions? 

The show by not being funny anymore or you by continuing to watch it long after it stopped being funny?

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Quote from: CBStew on December 13, 2012, 05:19:37 PMMeh.

No.

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welcoming him to The Chi.

NO.

The Chi (Shy) is actually acceptable Chicago slang, used by Common and others known for influencing the local vernacular. If you need somebody off your lawn or whatever, than do what you gotta do, but just know that this is technically correct usage and you're the asshole.

No, Apex from Columbuttfuck, Indiana.

Yes, Slaky from whatever cornfield north of the city you trudged out of with your feet all muddy.

I'm not claiming to know anything that wasn't written down over 15 years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17BlhQRyNyI

The Chi is the dumbest fucking thing you can call this city.

Racists.

Though if you want to argue that white people like Ryan Freel using black people slang is fucking stupid, I won't argue with you and will continue to modulate my own speech around you guys (my white non-hip hop friends).

Anyway, it was a typo.  He meant to write "chai".  Perfectly appropriate, even if it isn't accurate.

Actually, it wasn't even Freel who used that term back when it first angered up the buttnerves of some our denizens, but some horrible blogger they were trolling at the time. He may have been black for all I know.

You think that was bad?  Just try saying "Frisco" around here.

I understand that the locals unanimously despise that term because it's one used by tourists who don't know dick about dick. I'm actually pointing out a very local origin - can't get any more so in my mind - of "The Chi" and it's angering up the butts of the Chicago literati from Elk Grove Village all the way to Rockford. It's great internet fun.

Is it possible that Common used 'The Chi' as strictly a rhyming device rather than trying to add slang to the vernacular?  Just asking...

As a distraction from this horrible fucking day, I actually checked to see if this would be true, because I assumed the same thing.

Nope.

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But the Most High encourages me to put the glock up
And Stock up on do for self knowledge
A brother couldn't afford to go to collage
So I went to the school of hard knock
On the hard blocks of the Chi
Even I, think about moving out to River Oaks
As my liver soaks
In mad Hennesy
Cause I have a bad tendency

OK...so, perhaps, depending on the rhythm if the track, he may have been using it to save a syllable?

Probably. And that's how hip hop slang works. Even if Malik Yusef was the first person to ever utter the phrase, "The Chi" on his fantastic spoken-word contribution to Common's seminal 1997 LP "One Day It Will All Make Sense," it's in the fabric now, boys. And I hear my friends from the South Side say it all the time.

Similar to when Yusef sang "Tea For the Tillerman" and was actually referring to Teaneck, New Jersey.

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Quote from: CBStew on December 13, 2012, 05:19:37 PMMeh.

No.

Quote from: PenPho on December 13, 2012, 05:23:54 PM
welcoming him to The Chi.

NO.

The Chi (Shy) is actually acceptable Chicago slang, used by Common and others known for influencing the local vernacular. If you need somebody off your lawn or whatever, than do what you gotta do, but just know that this is technically correct usage and you're the asshole.

No, Apex from Columbuttfuck, Indiana.

Yes, Slaky from whatever cornfield north of the city you trudged out of with your feet all muddy.

I'm not claiming to know anything that wasn't written down over 15 years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17BlhQRyNyI

The Chi is the dumbest fucking thing you can call this city.

Racists.

Though if you want to argue that white people like Ryan Freel using black people slang is fucking stupid, I won't argue with you and will continue to modulate my own speech around you guys (my white non-hip hop friends).

Anyway, it was a typo.  He meant to write "chai".  Perfectly appropriate, even if it isn't accurate.

Actually, it wasn't even Freel who used that term back when it first angered up the buttnerves of some our denizens, but some horrible blogger they were trolling at the time. He may have been black for all I know.

You think that was bad?  Just try saying "Frisco" around here.

I understand that the locals unanimously despise that term because it's one used by tourists who don't know dick about dick. I'm actually pointing out a very local origin - can't get any more so in my mind - of "The Chi" and it's angering up the butts of the Chicago literati from Elk Grove Village all the way to Rockford. It's great internet fun.

Is it possible that Common used 'The Chi' as strictly a rhyming device rather than trying to add slang to the vernacular?  Just asking...

As a distraction from this horrible fucking day, I actually checked to see if this would be true, because I assumed the same thing.

Nope.

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But the Most High encourages me to put the glock up
And Stock up on do for self knowledge
A brother couldn't afford to go to collage
So I went to the school of hard knock
On the hard blocks of the Chi
Even I, think about moving out to River Oaks
As my liver soaks
In mad Hennesy
Cause I have a bad tendency

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Quote from: CBStew on December 13, 2012, 05:19:37 PMMeh.

No.

Quote from: PenPho on December 13, 2012, 05:23:54 PM
welcoming him to The Chi.

NO.

The Chi (Shy) is actually acceptable Chicago slang, used by Common and others known for influencing the local vernacular. If you need somebody off your lawn or whatever, than do what you gotta do, but just know that this is technically correct usage and you're the asshole.

No, Apex from Columbuttfuck, Indiana.

Yes, Slaky from whatever cornfield north of the city you trudged out of with your feet all muddy.

I'm not claiming to know anything that wasn't written down over 15 years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17BlhQRyNyI

The Chi is the dumbest fucking thing you can call this city.

I don't know, according to Wiki, "Chiraq, Drillinois" is a nickname that's used.

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Quote from: BH on December 14, 2012, 08:30:48 AM
Makes more sense for the cubs to trade for Porcello, now that the Tigers won't need him.
He's much cheaper.

Why? He's worse and will cost prospects. Sanchez just costs money.

Exactly.

It's too bad this makes the Cubs look bad even though they did nothing wrong.

Au contraire. This makes them look good. They are making prudent moves, and had this one worked, it would have been as much for the future as for today.

Look out for people despondently jumping into the harbor in Boston. Look at what they're doing: overpaying for what's left of Shane Victorino and Mike Napoli before bringing in the Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry today. They ran Epstink out of town for this clown show?

The general perception is the Cubs fucked up another deal when the reality is they made an aggressive offer ahead of the perceived timeline. They made Detroit spend a lot more money than they wanted to. The Sox should be pretty happy about this.

I agree with you TJ in that this is actually very good news, kind of shows their hand a little. And yes, Boston is just a complete joke. They're in for a lot of hurt.

Well, assuming there was a salary cap or any kind of repercussion to spending.