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How to talk right in Chicago
August 20, 2003
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Posted on 08/20/2003 5:48:28 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Chi-townChief
Turd: Between Second and Fort.
To: Charles Henrickson
I read this on a post on the song "The night Chicago died". Although I never heard it called this, someone said that Hegwish, and the other neighborhoods around mills could be considered East Side, since they are east of Michigan Ave.
To: tiamat
Monkey ward's--The late lamented Montgomery Wards ************************************** there has GOT to be a lot of DEE-troit/ Chicago cross-over.Not just there. I grew up in a MD suburb of DC, and that's what we called it there. That was back in the '70s.
To: mhking
Never was at The Stadium although I have seen a few guys go down the stairs in Soldier Field chin-first while trying to hang on to a couple of beers.
To: Milwaukee_Guy
Portillo's and Al's both have excellent beef. Fluky's for dogs and Polish. Pizza? Gino's East, Lou Malnati's, Gigio's, the list goes on and on. . . .
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:26:29 PM PDT
by
Charles Henrickson
(There is one Chicago-style place for beef and dogs here in St. Louis. But no good pizza here.)
To: Milwaukee_Guy
"I must have told that to a dozen Meewalkeeans..."
To an outsider, it sounds like "m'walkee".
To: MinuteGal
Can't find real Chicago Italian beef in the Sunshine State, drat. I don't think you can find a good beef even in the Chicago suburbs, Portillos is ok, if you buy the biiiigggg beef for $5.00.
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:26:50 PM PDT
by
X-FID
( The police aren't in the streets to create disorder; they are in the streets to preserve disorder.)
To: sharkhawk
Not true. And even if they were considered east, the dividing-line would be State St. and not Michigan Ave. East Chicago is in Indiana.
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:26:57 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: Charles Henrickson
Nah, no Turd Street but I did work at the Zenith plant over on Nord'avenue.
To: 1rudeboy
Reminds me of a story I heard from my parking lot attendant when I had Blackhawks season tickets, and always parked at one of the non-Wirtz lots.
Some Yuppies were walking by the lot (this was the early 90's when the neighborhood was really questionable, and the Bull's were the hot ticket) and they were talking about how the kid was really nice when they parked by the "Condos" and he only charged them a few bucks to park their car
To: Charles Henrickson
Nah, fully krauseneded is phony frou-frou Euro babble to confuse the masses.It's supposedly the same swamp water swill ie normal beer given bogus German authority though it tastes the same as regular suds.Any place that has Krauts uses this term to brand market.It ain't a Chicagoism :)
Old Milwaukee isn't real beer either, in case anyone in Chicago drank it ;-)
To: tiamat
What day is today?
Today is um, Thursday.
O my gawd, up up get up, we've got to move the car.
Love those street sweepers.
Anyone ever gillnet for smelt in montrose harbor?
What a great time that was.
92
posted on
08/20/2003 7:29:12 PM PDT
by
tet68
To: Chi-townChief
The Stadium was The Golden Age of Black Hawk Hockey.
Saw the old crew there. Hull, Makita etc.
93
posted on
08/20/2003 7:29:30 PM PDT
by
Milwaukee_Guy
(The Law of Unintended Consequences - No Good Deed Shall Go Unpunished.)
To: tiamat
I worked at the Ward's downtown on State and Adams many years ago - the building is even long gone.
To: saquin
As a Noo Yawkah transplanted to Chicago, it took me a while to say I was from Chicawgo, and to say 'over by dere' instead of 'owa deyah'.
95
posted on
08/20/2003 7:29:58 PM PDT
by
Salman
(Mickey Akbar)
To: Chi-townChief
I saw a fight at the stadium where a guy who had a few too many slipped down the stairs in the second balcony (think of the pitch in the new Caminsky) and was only stopped from going over by breaking his jaw on the railing.
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Lots of folks here just love their White Castles!
To: Charles Henrickson
Pizzeria UNO or DUE. Home Run INN. Super Dawg on Milwaukee.
To: sharkhawk; Hegewisch Dupa
. . . someone said that Hegwish, and the other neighborhoods around mills could be considered East Side, since they are east of Michigan Ave. Yes, but nobody calls it "East Side." (I think. I'm a Nortsider myself, so I'm not 100% sure.) You could say "Southeast Side," but that's about it. Usually you refer to the area by the ward, e.g., "the 11th Ward," or whatever.
To: Steve0113
We're more alike than we know, Brother!
but did you have Hudson's Basement? Tia
100
posted on
08/20/2003 7:32:26 PM PDT
by
tiamat
("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
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