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Marker placed at Hyde Park shopping center where Obamas shared first kiss (mega-barf alert)
Chicago Tribune ^ | August 16, 2012 | Dahleen Glanton

Posted on 08/16/2012 12:11:10 PM PDT by Zakeet

She was an attorney at a big Chicago law firm. He was a Harvard Law student who landed a job there as a summer associate. He was immediately smitten. She wasn't so sure. But he won her over, and the couple sealed their budding romance with a kiss at the Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop in Hyde Park.

So goes the story of how Michelle and Barack Obama fell in love in 1989. And on Wednesday, a historical marker went up at the corner of Dorchester Avenue and 53rd Street noting the exact location where the couple had their first smooch.

A quote from President Obama, taken from an interview published in "O, The Oprah Magazine" in February 2007, is inscribed beneath an embedded photo of the couple.

"On our first date, I treated her to the finest ice cream Baskin-Robbins had to offer, our dinner table doubling as the curb. I kissed her, and it tasted like chocolate."

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; marker; obama
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To: Zakeet
Some suggested that the site could become a popular spot for first dates and even marriage proposals.

"Why are you kneeling down in this parking lot across the street from the Ribs'N'Bibs? . . . oh, no . . ."

21 posted on 08/16/2012 12:26:14 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: Zakeet
I kissed her and she tasted like chocolate.

Now if you kiss her she'll taste like: ribs, pizza, french fries, cheeseburgers, bratwurst, lemon merengue pie, chocolate cake, brownies, onion rings, chicken wings, sheetrock, carpet, and breath mints.

22 posted on 08/16/2012 12:26:14 PM PDT by Harley (Life is Tough, But it's going to get a lot Tougher if you vote for Obama in Nov.)
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To: Zakeet

Help me out people... shouldn’t the marker read that the curb doubled as the dinner table?


23 posted on 08/16/2012 12:29:09 PM PDT by Third Person (Proud to be a knuckledragger!)
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To: Zakeet
"...I kissed her, and it tasted like chocolate."

And you stole that BS line from that goofy "mayor" who was running New Orleans during Katrina.

Got anything original?

24 posted on 08/16/2012 12:29:43 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Had enough of the freaks running the show yet?)
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To: Harley

I’m glad Michelle didn’t tell us what Barry tasted like.


25 posted on 08/16/2012 12:30:36 PM PDT by Third Person (Proud to be a knuckledragger!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“...it tasted like chocolate”

That’s racist!!

With O, according to Larry Sinclair, that might be sexist, too.

26 posted on 08/16/2012 12:35:48 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Third Person

“I kissed her and IT tasted like chocolate.”

Um, why is he referring to ‘her’ as ‘it’?

Heh.


27 posted on 08/16/2012 12:37:46 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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28 posted on 08/16/2012 12:40:40 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: Harley

Hahahahahahahaahahahaha!!!!


29 posted on 08/16/2012 12:44:38 PM PDT by taterjay
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To: Zakeet
"Tastes like chocolate"....is this a Freudian slip?? Me thinks so.

The clown in Loiusiana( I think) would say they is both "milk chocolate".

The marker is ridiculous. Hope the birds sh** all over it.

30 posted on 08/16/2012 12:49:40 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Zakeet

does the motel where soetoro and larry sinclair came together have a sign up that says “soetoro slept here?”


31 posted on 08/16/2012 12:50:48 PM PDT by biggredd1
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32 posted on 08/16/2012 12:52:38 PM PDT by GQuagmire
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To: kingu
"Hey, you know, better this than the marker in the Oval Office from Bill’s time there..."

I assume you're referring to the carpet stain?

33 posted on 08/16/2012 12:53:48 PM PDT by Mich Patriot (Today if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. RReagan)
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To: Zakeet

Superfund site. The White Hut must be a write off.


34 posted on 08/16/2012 1:00:35 PM PDT by Stentor
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To: Zakeet

...the shopping center where they knew they could cash their ill gotten welfare checks with no questions asked.....(6 social security numbers)


35 posted on 08/16/2012 1:07:38 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Zakeet

More election time diversion away from the fact that barry is gay.


36 posted on 08/16/2012 1:18:35 PM PDT by crosshairs (America: Once the land of the free. Still the home of the brave.)
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To: Zakeet
My Gawd...are people that vacuous to mark the spot where the Obama's first kissed...

It smacks of "cult of personality"

Maybe we should mark the spot were they first did the horizontal mambo

Yes, I'm a racist because I used white figures

37 posted on 08/16/2012 1:32:21 PM PDT by Popman (In a place you only dream of Where your soul is always free)
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To: Zakeet

That’s funny ... I actually had ice cream from that Baskin Robbins, and combined with straight instant coffee (alnighter for paper due next day at U of C) I wound up puking. That was in ‘85.

He also patronized Valois. Now that is a good solid eatery.


38 posted on 08/16/2012 1:35:11 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("I love to hear you talk talk talk, but I hate what I hear you say."-Del Shannon)
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To: Zakeet
Funny, Hyde Park will memorialize this "sacred" spot but the hospital in Hawaii where he was supposedly born won't even admit to the "sacred" event.
39 posted on 08/16/2012 1:38:40 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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Funny, Hyde Park will memorialize this "sacred" spot but the hospital in Hawaii where he was supposedly born won't even admit to the "sacred" event.
40 posted on 08/16/2012 1:39:12 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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