Chicago: The Eponymous Thread

that IS the kind of accident i expect to see more often. cars really do not like to yield to buses!

Jenny! Hello!

surprised to find no eponym/namesake pedantry itt

I actually was not aware until earlier today (at work) that "X's namesake" could mean "someone that also has X's name" -- I thought it only meant "someone X was named after."

i think to be precise you're supposed to use "eponym" for the person or thing after whom/which the "namesake" is named

sandbox needs a grammar fiend thread

paging dr advance johnson POLL: The Clean vs. The Chills

ha, thanks, I actually found it myself but the internet has been down here and so I wasn't able to post much for a while.

and now you are going to go ~crazy~ posting haha
i just knew you would have an opinion in that matter

sarah and evie are in springfield again so i am flying solo through saturday if anyone wants to hang out/do anything. pub quiz, thirsty thursday, whatevs.

I would do pub quiz.

Rounds tonight:

1) In The Year 2525 10 pts
2) Distinct Mesas 11 pts
3) Match - Pops Own Wind Thong 13 pts
4) Chemical State Round 16 pts
5) Dead Or Canadian 11 pts
6) Pictures 15 pts
7) General Knowledge 24 pts

2 = Mad Scientists?
3 = Downtown Shopping?

man I'd love to but I think tonight is laundry night

i have class tomorrow but am open to suggestions for the weekend...

Im in a tight budget till Friday.

Two of the Dumpsters at my office blew all the way out into the street and the Red Eye and Trib machines across the street did too.

haha @ the name "louis c.k. william"

*s

I'm glad that you appreciate that.

i'm gonna say it -- this "grass jelly" sounds pretty tasty to me
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/michael-mcgill-old-oak-tap-grass-jelly/Content?oid=5045816

The flavor, he said, is similar to anise. "It takes a while to develop on your palate. When you first eat it, it tastes like absolutely nothing. Five, ten minutes later you start to feel a sensation. We were joking yesterday that it sort of tastes like bad sambuca with pennies in it."

also, nice sunset today in spite of truly ugly weather

This board is almost unusable without bookmarks.

my bookmarks are working better than they did on regular ilx tbrr

only issue i'm having is not being able to turn off images

CTA was fucked up today but it was almost rehabilitated by the hilariously talkative train driver i had for most of my commute home.

My bookmarks works for this thread and a couple others, but definitely not all.

the Wish Anus bookmark never fails

no bookmark probs here afaict

I have no bookmark problems either, although when browsing on my phone, I have to "click to confirm" that I want to add a bookmark, at which point I am whisked back to SNA, whereas here, I just bookmark the thread and stay on the same page.

You know what is great? Grapefruit. Grapefruit is great.

Yes, it is! Jennifur, do you have grapefruit spoons? They are handy.

My memory was jogged by "grapefruit", for some reason, to remind me that I wanted to post about JUICE FASTERS in this thread. I'm certain we've talked about it before, maybe even on the sandbox? WTF, juice fasters? I have a friend who is evangelizing via fb for this and it's hard to read sometimes.

we live in an eating disordered society
that is all i have to say about it really

It's beyond eating, it's straight up science ignorance.

Jeff, I want you to share a database of debunking sources. You're my anti-woo guru.

tubgirl dot com

Hahahaha

A fitting response to claims of the Cult of Natural, I suppose.

omg irl at work LOLs

I do not have a grapefruit spoon. I just use a knife to free the sections and then eat them with a regular spoon. Not even a grapefruit knife, either. A steak knife! ~~rebel~~

ps juice fasts are super dumb.

I'm a big fan of grapefruit, too.

Only my bookmarks for this thread and the wish anus are working now. The others stopped working.

EZ hasn't registered here yet, but he just posted this on the FB ILX secret group http://www.wbez.org/blog/city-room-blog/2011-11-30/walmart-makes-inroads-chicagos-north-side-lakeview-store-opening-9444.

I'm not going to shop there, but they did a nice job reusing of that space.

"There are three transgender employees working here,"

When asked why the opening release said "Walmart Express Opens in Wrigleyville" and not Boystown or even Lakeview, Restivo stressed it was not any slight to the gay community, but that the broader public would be more easily able to associate the location because of Wrigley Field.

"This store is creating 45-50 new jobs" -- but how many will be lost at other stores around the neighborhood?

All of them.

That area was already lousy with food stores without this addition. The good people of Lakeview are assured their nutrition.

I think it's a stretch to call that Wrigleyville. It's generally considered Wrigleyville ends at Fremont.

It's closer to a phallic pole than it is a foul pole.

Jeff.

I've got a foul pole.

For you.