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  • #31
    BEST picture of the thread Ming (narrowly beating Colon).
    Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
    Then why call him God? - Epicurus

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    • #32
      Some real photos of Chicago (by me!)
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      • #33
        guess where I am (and I was one of the very few who was actually reading what was on the wall!)
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        • #34
          What I can't figure out is why anyone would want to settle there. It is damn cold, and back then probably teaming of wolves.
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          • #35
            Originally posted by Lonestar
            Is this supposed to be a souped up Helm's Deep?
            Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
            "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
            He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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              • #37
                Originally posted by Lord Avalon
                Hey, when you're in Chicago, don't forget to try one of their famous Chicago hot dogs:
                looks like fries and a couple buffalo wings to me
                To us, it is the BEAST.

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                • #38
                  It's Fish n Chips, Aussie, UK and NZ all famous for it. That's not buffalo wings, its fried fish.

                  I have thought about trying to sell it in Singapore, I think it would be a hit
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                  • #39
                    At least you bought a real pizza
                    I'm consitently stupid- Japher
                    I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned

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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by FrostyBoy
                      What I can't figure out is why anyone would want to settle there. It is damn cold, and back then probably teaming of wolves.
                      It was a swamp, actually; one of the greatest feats of 19th century engineering was reversing the Chicago river (it used to flow INTO lake michigan, now it flows out of lake michigan into the Ohio or some such) and draining the swamp. Probably not so much in the way of wolves compared to the foresty areas south and west.

                      If you actually want the answer, it is:
                      Location, Location, Location.

                      Chicago is a) on the mouth of a river from which you can get to the Mighty Mississip; b) on Lake Michigan, nearly the furthest west you can go and still be on the Great Lakes (but still be in range of the Mississippi); c) near the Great Plains states where the meat and grain came from; and d) not nearly as cold as a lot of places

                      Those came together to make Chicago a great place to build a city. Of course, the city was largely built as a result of the above causing people to come here, not proactively planned, but it makes sense when you think about it
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                      • #41
                        Originally posted by FrostyBoy
                        What I can't figure out is why anyone would want to settle there. It is damn cold, and back then probably teaming of wolves.
                        Much better to settle the mosquito-riddled swamp where Singapore is now.
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                        • #42
                          I think the british empire would disagree with you colon.


                          snoopy, I read about that on the walls...
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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by snoopy369
                            Dan, do you want some real ones, or is this just a frostyboy troll?
                            I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                            • #44
                              DanS
                              Solomwi is very wise. - Imran Siddiqui

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                              • #45
                                This thread is the best thread of 2008 so far.
                                Graffiti in a public toilet
                                Do not require skill or wit
                                Among the **** we all are poets
                                Among the poets we are ****.

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