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Thursday Snow Day Open Thread

By Jeralyn, Section Blog Related
Posted on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 01:09:04 PM EST
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We got 9 inches of snow last night, and it's still piling up. 12 to 16 inches are expected before the storm is done-- much more outside of Denver. It's a great day to work from home.

As usual, viewers from our local Channel 7 news have submitted some great photos.

[Hat tip to Skippy for making this graphic several snow seasons ago.]

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

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    A Christmas Miracle... (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by kdog on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 01:57:48 PM EST
    White Castle is now serving beer...how awesome is that?  Now when you show up for a dozen belly bombers boxed at 2am, you can wash it down with a nightcap.  Just the Lafayette, IN location to start, but I could see this brilliant idea spreading like wildfire to all White Castle locations.

    Yeah, that seems like a match made in heaven (none / 0) (#6)
    by ruffian on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 02:04:57 PM EST
    Who can eat those things without beer?

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    I'll never forget... (5.00 / 1) (#11)
    by kdog on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 02:16:49 PM EST
    the night of my brother's wedding...all the fam and some friends piling in the limo after the reception for a White Castle run...sitting there scarfing down belly bombers in our tuxedos and gowns sh*tfaced...what a sight we musta been.

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    Who can eat those things (none / 0) (#12)
    by Zorba on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 02:39:42 PM EST
    at all?  My brothers all adored White Castle- someone was always making a run to bring back sacks full of them.  My mother and I couldn't stand them.  Must be a guy thing.  (Although, if someone forced me to eat one, I'd sure rather have one with a beer- that would at least take away taste of cheap, fatty meat and steamed onions and buns.)

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    I can't either - never could (none / 0) (#16)
    by ruffian on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 03:31:46 PM EST
    My older brother thought they were the best treat we could have as kids on a trip to Chicago to see the grandparents. We'd buy a monster bag of them. They were/are the rare food I do not like at all!

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    Me, too! (none / 0) (#19)
    by Zorba on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 03:35:36 PM EST
    Ugh!  Like I said, it really must be a guy thing!  I don't know any females who like White Castle burgers (or, at least, who will admitt to liking them!)

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    I'm not convinced there is any meat in there (5.00 / 0) (#21)
    by ruffian on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 03:39:13 PM EST


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    Neither am I.... (none / 0) (#22)
    by kdog on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 03:58:31 PM EST
    but whatever the quasi-meat might be, it is delicous;)

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    My wife, whose family is from Kentucky, (none / 0) (#23)
    by Peter G on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 04:07:12 PM EST
    LOVES those White Castle "belly bomber" square-shaped mini-burgers.  As do her brothers.  They insisted on stopping off for a giant whatever-it's-called of them on the way back from burying their father south of Louisville.

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    Oy vey! (none / 0) (#31)
    by Zorba on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 05:46:36 PM EST
    Well, your wife is a rare and special woman, Pater!  I grew up in the St. Louis area, where White Castle is ubiquitous, and I literally don't know any other women who like it!

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    Same as per Krystal, (none / 0) (#41)
    by the capstan on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 07:22:23 PM EST
    I think.  White Castle in my home town, but when my mother moved here and spent a Christmas in the hospital in the nearest 'big' city, we always made a Krystal stop.  Also been known to get frozen ones from the grocery.

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    Yes, Krystal (none / 0) (#43)
    by Zorba on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 07:43:14 PM EST
    is the Southern equivalent of White Castle.  White Castle was founded in 1921 (in Kansas).  Krystal's founder, Rody Davenport, Jr., visited some White Castles and set up his own version in Tennessee in 1932.
    Link  

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    The castle in White Castle (none / 0) (#46)
    by jeffinalabama on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 08:41:00 PM EST
    comes from the facade of the Chicago Water Works building. I remember that from somewhere...

    I know Krystal, but I think I've only been to one White Castle.
    But there's no 'Harold and Kumar go to Krystal.'


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    But, mon cher, (5.00 / 1) (#47)
    by Zorba on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 08:50:33 PM EST
    of course Harold and Kumar didn't go to Krystal.  That's because the original was White Castle, and Krystal was a rip-off.   ;-)

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    Even though I don't like White Castle (5.00 / 0) (#53)
    by ruffian on Fri Dec 23, 2011 at 09:09:05 AM EST
    I will also stick up for them against the Krystal copy-cat. Us mid-westerners have to stick together.

    They are greasy gut-bombs of questionable content, but they are MY greasy gut-bombs of questionable content!

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    All this Krystal and White Castle (none / 0) (#49)
    by CoralGables on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 09:32:57 PM EST
    I grew up on Royal Castle. Still have a coffee mug and a birch beer glass (hopefully beyond the statute of limitations). You could get a burger and a birch beer for a quarter on South Dixie Highway.

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    Ha - White Castle (none / 0) (#52)
    by desertswine on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 11:46:31 PM EST
    Jean Shepherd used to do some very entertaining schtick about White Castle - Buy 'Em By the Sack.

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    Introducing (5.00 / 1) (#33)
    by nycstray on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 06:11:35 PM EST
    My new BFF and sidekick
    Strababe's Rockin' the Moxie "Roxy"

    This pic is when she was 3mos, she's now 5mos as of yesterday and just beautiful (imo!). Have today's pics as soon as my mom gets home and emails them to me. I adopted her from someone who did all their research, but reading about life with a Dal and living with one are two different things :D

    Merry Christmas to me! Family gathering should be a bit wild this year, lol!~

    OMG (5.00 / 1) (#35)
    by The Addams Family on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 06:18:51 PM EST
    so cute!

    The Dot would approve, i think

    congratulations!

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    Thanks! (none / 0) (#38)
    by nycstray on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 06:32:25 PM EST
    The Dot is currently watching her play with her fav stuffy. She's grooming it just like Dot used too :)

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    I think they were really trying to do the (5.00 / 1) (#40)
    by nycstray on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 07:02:08 PM EST
    right thing and research etc (first dog for them, although their families have dogs etc). They took good care of her and she obviously was loved by them. Total opposite beginning than my Dot had. She came from a couple of crackheads who kept her tied in the basement for a couple years and forgot to feed her . . .

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    Have a wonderful White Christmas & snowy week (none / 0) (#1)
    by christinep on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 01:26:21 PM EST
    For those of you in Colorado--Hear, hear Jeralyn, MileHi, et al--it sue looks like dream skiing & all-around Currier & Ives days.  

    For husband, Eskie dog & I, Santa Fe beckoned...and, we hope to hum along toward the New Year (since we maneuvered over Raton in between the storms.). So here sit I, luckily & lazily, pecking on this IPad.

    Those pictures really did get me in the mood (5.00 / 1) (#5)
    by ruffian on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 02:03:23 PM EST
    Nice to see pictures of the actual places people live - I could really feel like I was back in my old place in Castle Rock.

    Glad you made it safely. Enjoy!

    I am off to Atlanta tomorrow for the weekend. Probably no snow this year - we did have an inch or so last year.

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    Yeah (5.00 / 1) (#7)
    by lilburro on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 02:05:36 PM EST
    now I want snow and a dog, though!

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    I don't miss snow that much for myself (5.00 / 1) (#8)
    by ruffian on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 02:11:28 PM EST
    but watching my dogs play in snow was close to the most fun I ever had in my life.

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    It really is fun, isn't it (5.00 / 1) (#13)
    by sj on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 02:40:51 PM EST
    It just makes me laugh out loud to watch them.  .

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    Yes! Sheer joy like that is so rare. (5.00 / 2) (#15)
    by ruffian on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 03:30:04 PM EST


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    Mmmm...I can just smell that cold wet dog fur!!! (none / 0) (#20)
    by ruffian on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 03:37:15 PM EST
    Love it!  One of my goldens gets icicles hanging off his hair.

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    My little schnoodle (none / 0) (#28)
    by sj on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 05:31:19 PM EST
    was the same way.  It didn't seem to slow her down any.  Oddly, my Chow doesn't have the same problem. I don't know why snow doesn't cake on her fur...

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    No (none / 0) (#9)
    by Ga6thDem on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 02:13:46 PM EST
    snow here in Atlanta forecast for Christmas. Right now it's unseasonably warm and I had to pull out shorts and short sleeves because I was so darn hot. It's also pouring rain today but I don't know if this is going to continue.

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    Dang. Extra warm here too. (none / 0) (#10)
    by ruffian on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 02:16:36 PM EST
    Oh well, I'll have to be dreaming of a white Christmas.

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    ruffian, please e-mail or text me (none / 0) (#44)
    by oculus on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 08:19:13 PM EST
    if you still have my contact info.  Thanks.  

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    Will do! (5.00 / 1) (#54)
    by ruffian on Fri Dec 23, 2011 at 09:10:06 AM EST


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    I am so happy to hear (5.00 / 1) (#27)
    by sj on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 05:29:49 PM EST
    that your cousin is doing well.  Happy Holidays Donald.

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    Obama's Presidency Graphic (none / 0) (#3)
    by ScottW714 on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 02:00:19 PM EST
    Follow Your Dreams

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    Uh, oh. Can we still expect to see (none / 0) (#4)
    by Peter G on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 02:00:50 PM EST
    our middle daughter, who lives in Denver, arriving Friday night at the airport for a Christmas visit with the family in Philadelphia?

    Hope she makes it Peter... (5.00 / 1) (#14)
    by kdog on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 02:50:46 PM EST
    this storm could be the dickens for many a holiday traveler...worse comes to worse there is always hitching a ride with Santa and Rudolph Christmas Eve.

    My second favorite Christmas song...The Human Riff's Run Rudolph Run.

    The fav, of course, The Kinks...Father Christmas.

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    Dog, how could you forget (none / 0) (#17)
    by Zorba on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 03:32:41 PM EST
    that absolute Christmas classic Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer?  

    Sorry- couldn't help myself!   ;-)  

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    Perhaps you haven't heard John Waters' (none / 0) (#45)
    by oculus on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 08:23:45 PM EST
    Christmas collection.  

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    Well, probably a headline 'GOP Caves' (none / 0) (#18)
    by ruffian on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 03:35:00 PM EST
    will make them balk, but there appears to be a deal for the payroll tax cut extension. The two month one anyway, fairly clean with the tax cut, unemployment extension, and Medicate doc fix. Really just kicks the showdown down the road a bit - and the Dems already gave up the surtax on the rich. But making the GOP House give in on something is satisfying anyway.

    Good grief. (5.00 / 1) (#24)
    by Ga6thDem on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 04:34:37 PM EST
    Can anything be approved for more than a few months? The thing I found most interesting about this is that the GOP has completely given up on the fact that tax cuts pay for themselves and tax cuts create jobs.

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    Yup. that is a point the Dems should be (none / 0) (#55)
    by ruffian on Fri Dec 23, 2011 at 09:33:09 AM EST
    making more out of.

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    A whole new meaning (none / 0) (#30)
    by sj on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 05:46:04 PM EST
    for the term "bird brain".  I may need to get a bird some day...

    Oops (5.00 / 0) (#32)
    by sj on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 05:46:44 PM EST
    forgot the article

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    oh yes (none / 0) (#34)
    by The Addams Family on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 06:17:42 PM EST
    i used to live on Vashon Island (Puget Sound) & bought food for my dog & cats at the local feed store

    the woman who owned the store had a number of birds for sale, including a jenday conure

    this little fellow was smart as a whip & took a liking to me - he would let me walk around the store with him on my shoulder & on my head

    i seriously considered taking him home with me, too - but when i learned that these birds require lots of personal attention, & realized that this one would probably learn in very short order to bark, i reluctantly changed my mind

    after that, he turned his back on me whenever i approached

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    That is part of what has kept me (none / 0) (#37)
    by sj on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 06:30:27 PM EST
    from getting a bird.  They are smart and fun, but need and deserve a lot of attention.  Even more than a dog.  And I'm afraid I would hurt its feelings.  As you noted, they are really sensitive.  And it would make me sad to hurt its feelings.

    And I don't like referring to a hypthetical bird as "it".  It just feels wrong...

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    Cardinal George's comments on FOX (none / 0) (#42)
    by KeysDan on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 07:23:05 PM EST
    were gratuitous and offensive.  Gratuitous-- because the change in the parade route so as to pass Our Lady of Mt. Carmel was made in concert with the city and the 44th Ward Alderman, Tom Tunney, who is gay and a member of Mt. Carmel, in the interest of public safety.  Mt. Carmel is in Chicago's "Boys Town" on Belmont Ave, between Halsted  and Broadway. The parade has in the past drawn over 700,000 people and similar attendance is expected for next June's parade.  

    Although there is alternate access to the church other than on Belmont Ave, the parade timing has been changed so as not to interfere, unduly, with Sunday morning masses. Never-the-less, parade organizers moved the step off time to noon.

    Offensive--because of the KKK's history and the pejorative association given not only to gay men and women but also to all Chicagoans who participate and enjoy the parade festivities.  Moreover, Cardinal George comes across as reactionary in the face of  progressive legislation, such as civil unions, as well as a need to strengthen his bona fides with his "boss", Pope Benedict.

    The "Boy's Town" parade (none / 0) (#51)
    by Towanda on Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 11:10:24 PM EST
    is great, as is that wonderful old neighborhood on any day, in part because of the new residents -- the "boys" of all ages.  Very friendly area and fun.

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