How to talk right in Chicago

August 20, 2003 | from an e-mail

[mhking]

On LIVE television, the monkey grabbed the parrot and bit its head off!

ROTFLMAO! I don't remember that one, but it doesn't surprise me...

[willieroe]

And remember the old "SuperCFL"? Do you actually remember when they made the format switch from Top 40 to elevator music and sold ad time to all the other radio stations in town?

Larry Lujack actually spun elevator music for a month or two until WLS picked him up...

And on his final shift as a rock-'n-roll DJ at SuperCFL, Uncle Lar ended with an hour of sounds of ocean waves crashing....

[sharkhawk]

One time on Bozo, during the grand prize game a kid missed a bucket and said damn, Bozo told the kid "that's a Bozo no-no", the kid replied "cram it clownie"
Don't know if it is true, but everyone I have ever met from Chicago has heard the story.

[Charles Henrickson]

Floyd Kalber, news
Harry Volkman, weather
Len O'Connor, commentary

Johnny Erp, sports

Ed Grennan, hosting "It's Academic"

Jack Eigen

[orchid]

Re: your post #175
I'll see that and raise you a Clint Youle, the first weatherman on WNBQ (the original call letters of the NBC outlet in Chicago).

[orchid]

Re: your post #175
I'll see that and raise you a Clint Youle, the first weatherman on WNBQ (the original call letters of the NBC outlet in Chicago).

[Chi-townChief]

Howard Miller was a horse's ass when I met him at Come Back Inn back in '73 or '74. He was with his entourage and accused me of voting for McGovern and told me to get a haircut. My then-girlfriend told me to ignore it and just kept pushing me along and then a restaurant employee got between Miller's group and us and that was the end of that.

[Chi-townChief]

On the other hand, I ran into the late Art Roberts of, if I recall, both 'LS and 'CFL around the same time period maybe a little earlier. Art was a great guy!!

[Charles Henrickson]

Frazier Thomas and the cast of Garfield Goose

Bob "Bozo" Bell as "Andy Starr" at the "Odeon Theater,"
where he showed Three Stooges and Andy Clyde shorts

[DrNo]

Howard Miller was a horse's ass when I met him at Come Back Inn back in '73 or '74.

The Come Back In?! I haven't been there since I was a teenager with phony i.d. in the late 60's!

Talk about a blast from the past!

What was the name of the place in the (near) western suburbs that wasn't really fussy about i.d. and used to close about 4:30-5:00 AM only to re-open about 6:30 AM?

You'd think, given all the beer I drank there, I'd remember! NOT!

;^)

[habs4ever]

Hey Chuck, what, no fond memories and happy snaps of Studs Terkel??? ;-)

[carlo3b]

Listen yuzguys, about this East Side stuff, I remember dat a lot of people, uze to say I come from da east side, referring to Little Italy , we had a lot of syndicate guys living around dere, and they would say da same ting. I wouldn't argue wit dat!

[mhking]

Da East Side is in da lake.

[carlo3b]

Italian Sesame Cookies

• 2 cups shortening (I use vegetable crisco)
• 2 1/2 white granulated sugar
• 5 med. eggs
• 1 cup whole milk
• 10 cups all purpose flour
• 4 tsp. baking powder
• 2 Tbls. vanilla
• 1 lb. sesame seeds (wash thoroughly and drain)


Preheat oven to 450 F, and grease and flour 2 cooking sheets.
1) Mix shortening, sugar.
2) Add eggs, milk, flour, and baking powder, and thoroughly mix together.
3) Divide and roll each into 1" log.
4) Cut into 2" sections, then roll in damp sesame seeds. Gently pat seeds into the cookies.
Bake at 450 F for about 10 minutes, or until lightly brown.
Tip: These wonderful cookies freeze well, or/and will stay fresh tasting for about 2 weeks refrigerated.
A GREAT COFFEE DUNKIN COOKIE!!!  Yummmmmmmmmm.. :)

[habs4ever]

Bring da tootpiks,Carlo!

[mhking]

Now THAT looks good!

[DrNo]

Da East Side is in da lake

Yeah, I used to laugh at that line in the song "The Day Chicago Died" (Tin Lizzie?) where it referenced the "East Side."

But then I'm from "Austin" which is about as west as you can get without being in Oak Park!

[orchid]

Howard Miller also had a late night TV show with guests from the entertainment industry. His wife was JUNE VALLI.

[Liberal Classic]

12. Use. Not the verb but the plural pronoun "you".  "Where's use goin'?"

Can this be pluralized as in "Where's all youse goin'?" If so, this word would seem to be linguistically similar to y'all and all y'all.

[orchid]

Howard Miller also had a late night TV show with guests from the entertainment industry. His wife was JUNE VALLI.