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you should have said, "whatever, go get yourself a shirt, lady!"

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Jenny, go to the GM. Leslie says that you can watch that bar review thing on video. Or maybe I'm mixed up.

I like Leslie. More Leslie.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

She wasn't exactly arguing against the rebuilding, but she wanted to hear a good argument for it.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I'da whooped her ass with a good argument.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

My fucking noggin hurts and I am going to brunch with Courtney and her sister and I don't think my head will not explode and my throat is sore and I'm kind of horny and I have heartburn and last night I accidentally went to Clark's on Clark.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd like to know how you all would have answered. Give me a good argument.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

It was kinda fun hanging with her because it reminded me of being around all my parents' academic friends. I hope I didn't say anything too godawful stupid.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

point of info: Cubs tix on sale online next Friday.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

It was kinda fun hanging with her because it reminded me of being around all my parents' academic friends.

Aw. Now I'm really looking forward to meeting her next week.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

ha ha

I thought you said "alcoholic friends"

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

yes, Leslie is awesome!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

1) Culture...NO has traditions that are both uniquely American and found nowhere else in the country/world

2) A lot of the people who lost their homes lived there their whole lives, owned their homes, etc.. What's a good argument for not allowing them even the chance to rebuild on property that they own?

3) How would you feel if Chicago got bombed out and you lost everything you owned, and you were told to forget about it and start up somewhere else?

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

you should have said, "whatever, go get yourself a shirt, lady!"

Did she take her shirt off? Did I leave too soon?

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd like to know how you all would have answered. Give me a good argument.

letting a historic city sink into the muck is the kind of thing failing empires do. We should try to keep up appearances, at the very least.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

OTM

(I'm not good at good arguments unfort.)

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

FYI: Elizabeth from C4N4ST4 is going to be on CHECK PLEASE tonight at 8 PM.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost "And on this marshy place once stood the great city of New Orleans, which suffered a massive flood and was left to rot by the already crumbling American civilization."

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

the federal government stopped picking up the tab for towns along the mississippi river in iowa and missouri that were in flood prone areas. the rationalization being that if you build in a place that is prone to flooding (for the sake of argument let's say a city below sea level and surrounded by the sea) then you shouldn't be surprised at the results.

just playing devil's advocate.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, it's not like the people who are currently homeless because of Katrina are the ones who decided to put the city there. Also, Chicago is built on a swamp that some clever engineer filled in so I figured we could start sinking any minute.

MAN this hangover... she just gets worse and worse.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

FYI: Elizabeth from C4N4ST4 is going to be on CHECK PLEASE tonight at 8 PM.

Oooo! Exciting! Do you know what restaurant she picked?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

She picked a Japanese grocery/market in Arlington Heights, I forget what it's called.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, the fed government also said the levys would hold and dragged their heels on improving/reinforcing them for decades. If they had held then the overflow and the storm damage would have been comparatively minor.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

that's the argument I would make. the federal government has an obligation.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I just saw on the little elevator TV that the US has the highest rate of depressed people in the world, followed by Ukraine.

USA! USA!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

ours is a physically, culturally, and spiritually toxic environment

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Next thread title?

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

no. it's beef, love and understanding, remember?

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

next thread should be nick's "beef, love, and understanding".

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

that said, i'm off to mickey d's.

seacrest out.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Salad for lunch didn't quite cut it. Deer carcass would have been better.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

i wish i could leave work early and go out for a shot and a beer then be in bed by six o'clock.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i just entered my leave request for next month and even after taking those 4 days i still have over 170 hours of vacation left.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

the point being, i need to get out of town more.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I have 19 days of vacation this year, 9 of which I have to take before the end of June. BUT AS USUAL I CAN'T DO ANYTHING ON THE OFF CHANCE THAT THE BAND MIGHT TOUR, JUST LIKE WE HAVEN'T FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Holy crap, you guys have a lot of vacation.

I wish you could buy vacation days on the black market.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link

well, to be fair, until this year i hadn't taken two consecutive days off since june of '03 and that was the only vacation i took in the last 6 years.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Almost all my vacation in the last two years has gone to band stuff. Taking an actual vacation to, like, go somewhere or relax is almost inconceivable.

(this of course was a sticking point in my last relationship)

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Holy crap, you guys have a lot of vacation.

That's 10 days (two work weeks) of yearly vacation, plus 9 carry-over days, because I kept holding on to last year's vacation on the off chance, etc. etc. My trip to Montreal last year came from 2005's carry-over days, once I realized that the band wouldn't be touring before July.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Peoples who are planning on going to the GM tonight: what time are you thinking of arriving? I'm trying to work out a ride, and also considering seating, etc.

xposts I have 21 days to deal with somehow, and absolutely no clue as to what to do with them. I'm kinda leaning towards Costa Rica.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

dang, you get your year's worth of vacation right at the start of the year? i earn 6 hours of vacation for every pay period (two weeks).

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

has anyone recovered from their hangover enough for post work drinks? or am i flying solo?

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Guys, I just realized something creepy:

6150860 (current phone number)
101586 (college ID number)
18056 (video store account number)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't have a hangover. i could do something. or maybe i should save it for the gm.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

someone photoshop jaymc with the number 18056 scrawled all over his face.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

http://alfa989.googlepages.com/lost_108.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Peoples who are planning on going to the GM tonight:

(If everything goes according to plan, i'll be there or in the neighborhood around 7:30. Unless we get in super early (hello iPass!) and decide to go to the hotel first.)

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, do you want to ride with us?
Is anyone else coming? Wanna know if we should get there early to get a booth or not...

― Calico (calico), Friday, 16 February 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Kr and I are still maybes -- we prob won't know until tonight.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

or maybe i should save it for the gm.
-- Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (fluxion2...), February 16th, 2007.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 16 February 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, do you want to ride with us?

I meant planning with 1-2 other friends who are interested in coming too, but thanks for the offer!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 16 February 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

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