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a friend of mine has a story about when she was little: she was always getting into arguments with her brother about whether birds have knees. at one point the argument turned into a physical fight and she broke his arm.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

"Too then" sounds like it could be a synonym for "so five minutes ago."

"Too then -- not enough now!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Birds actually do have knees, but they are closer to their bodies and often hidden by their plumage.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha.

Sarah, the next time I break up with someone, I'm giving her that dvd.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

how are things with Emm4?

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

The birds' 'knees', like cats' 'knees', correlate to our ankles, not our knees.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

What about the bees' knees?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Pretty good, Kelsey. Taking things slow.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

two lumps please, you're the bees knees but so am i

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Would $30 buy you anything at a Michael Anthony salon? A mani? A pedi? I need to get my secret santa gift. I know she loves that particular salon, but I don't know if it's tacky to give someone a gift card that isn't big enough to cover ANY of the services...

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

there are a couple of manicures under $30, Sarah (and a whole bunch of waxing, if she's into that.) also, $30 sounds really generous to me.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

heh

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, good. I don't know if you were here for it, but I was complaining a while ago about our office Secret Santa minimum gift amount being $35. Thankfully, I got someone I like well enough, so I figure I'll get her a gift card and then some dark chocolate from a chocolate boutique.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

YOU SHOULD BE SPENDING AT LEAST $35! MINIMUM! GOD WHAT IS WITH YOU, ARE YOU JUST CHEAP OR SOMETHING?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

UM... xpost

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

minimum $35??? who do you work with, oil tycoons? god, being a grad student is so sad.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

who do you work with, oil tycoons?

Worse. Shrill, pushy bitches.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

back when I worked at a real job, our secret santa MAX was $20. that is the civilized way to accomodate your lower-paid staff, of which I was one.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Just got the e-mail about the annual office Glögg party two weeks from today. Expect drunken posting.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't know for sure, but i might be able to set you up with a discount on gourmet chocolate, sarah.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

secret santa's are all but against the law here since it would be a federal violation for me to buy a gift for a supervisor. technically i'm not even supposed to pay for his coffee which i've done numerous times as a result of football wagering. which is also illegal now that i think about it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Yup, Kenan.

Oooh! Could you find out for me pretty please, Julia?

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i'll see what i can do, and let you know.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Jambalaya from the cafeteria today... hmmm. I hope this sits well.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Good luck to you. I had canned corn chowder which was pretty much just over-processed, sweetened goop. Never again.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Status: Tasted okay, resting comfortably. Still wary of that hot sauce.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i ate a chik'n patty. spicy, no less!

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

This African menthol gum is pretty good, though. I have brushed my breath.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Kiss me, I'm mentholated.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, I was wrong yesterday. I don't have the Morningstar chik patties in my freezer, I have the Boca ones.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I had a hot dog again. Luckily it was the last in the package so I can go back to real food.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i am picking at leftover aloo ghobi. i just can't convince myself to eat much of it though--the daal was much better (i LOVE daal). star of india is a good place, but i'm not really in the mood for caulifloweriness.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a really hard time with cauliflower. It's one of my least favorite vegetables.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

The CTA can seriously kiss my ass.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

The CTA can give me a Christmas Blumpkin.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

What'd they do now?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, it's been slow for me before, but it's never been this bad. What happened today?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I waited 21 minutes for a fucking northbound train this morning. As I waited, 5 southbound trains (I have "Southbound Pachyderm" in my head now) went by, and 1 "express" northbound.

Also, I renewed my ChicagoCard Plus last Thursday and it worked 1 time and then stopped. I re-renewed it on Saturday and see that I was charged $75, but it still was inactive! I called customer service where I held for 10 minutes. The CSR said "You were supposed to wait 3 days after renewing before using your card. Because you didn't, your card deactivated. I'll reactivate it, but don't use it for three days." WHAT???? Has anyone else ever heard of this??????

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Never. Sounds like bullshit.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I only have the standard Chicago card. Once the machine ate my $20, though, and I had to spend a long and arduous time on the phone getting it back.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

And WTF, if they're on the stick enough to immediately DEACTIVATE your card, why not immediately ACTIVATE it.

The CTA can give me a Christmas Blumpkin.

It's the least they could do. But you know how that goes. Forty acres and a mule.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

My commute has been totally fine lately. I think I've realized that getting on the train before 9:15 assures speediness -- after that, they assume that people aren't actually going to work anymore and thus won't complain as loudly if there's a delay.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the Brown line is eating up Red's efficiency.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, definitely. Which is weird, because the work is actually going on on the brown line. I guess they figure they can disperse the complaining if they make one branch of the line deal with closed stations and construction and the other branch deal with huge fuck-off delays.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Every. Single. Day. My commute gets worse and worse. Most days I wait forever for a train, and every day the train moves slower than molasses from Fullerton to Grand. If I leave for work 1 hour before I have to be there I am still not assured that I won't be late. No amount of bitching is enough to express how frustrating this is.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, see, my delays are always before Belmont. Between Fullerton and Grand? WTF are they doing there? They sure as shit haven't announced anything.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I was on a train that was poking along btw North/Clyborn and Clark/Division and I heard a man scream right outside my window. That was pretty cool

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Is there a bus alternative? You guys have all those fancy Inner Drive and XX Express buses over there, right?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

No bus alternative that would make things better. I wish I could take the 147 Outer Drive Exp. I love that bus. (Except for the day I took it and it was running 25 min. late and was the single most crowded vehicle I had ever been on. To make things worse, another 147 broke down and we had to pick up all of its riders! People were snapping at snarling at each other.)

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

You have bad public transit mojo jesse. My commute is great. I leave an hour and 15 minutes before I am supposed to be at work. I walk up to Addison and there is usually a bus coming, which I hop on even though it's only 3 blocks to the red line. On the red line, I stand at the last car and have gotten a seat nearly every single day. If I can't get a seat, I usually see another train rounding the Sheridan corner, so I just wait for that one. All in all, it takes about 30 minutes, door to door. Unless there are problems with the train, but even then, I haven't been more than a couple of minutes late.

I could take the 147 inner drive bus to work, but it is hard to get a seat on it and it takes longer, and is bumpier. Plus there are too many white people.

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

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