Matt Spiegel@MattSpiegel670 · 48m 48 minutes ago

Sent the intern, @erook, to go grab us some sausages from @hotdougs. I figure he'll be back by 11, or 11:30, right? Quick trip.

Isn't there a huge fucking line at Hot Doug's?

CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago's hippest hot dog stand helped elevate the lowly sausage into a culinary superstar by stuffing it with exotic ingredients including escargot, foie gras and rattlesnake. When the owner announced the gourmet shop was closing, everyone expected encased-meat aficionados to line up for one last taste.

But this?

Lines forming deep in the night. Lawn chairs, card tables, poker chips, sleeping bags and booze to help pass the wait of up to eight hours. A spot in line popping up on Craigslist for $300. Apologetic announcements telling patrons they won't reach the front of the line and secure their coveted dog before closing time.

As Hot Doug's prepares to close Friday, in a city that takes its hot dogs seriously, the line outside Doug Sohn's "sausage superstore" has become as big a sensation as the stand itself. And nobody entertains the idea for even a second that this is the least bit crazy.

So, who are these people? Well, just go down the line:

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NO. 1

Christopher Sanders and his buddy David Kudla became Wednesday's first customers at 12:45 a.m., unfolding lawn chairs to wait for the doors to open at 10:30 a.m.

Sanders, 29, had never been to Doug's before - put off, by all things, by the sight of constant but shorter lines.

"I've driven past it, seen the lines and said, `I'm not waiting that long, it's crazy,'" he said. "I will never get a chance to do it ever again."

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MAKING THE GRADE

Sergio Deleon, who arrived at 3 a.m., knows that if he's not in his college classroom by 11 it will cost him a full grade in class.

"Gonna be worth it," said the 24-year-old Deleon, though he had a plan for salvaging an A - buy a dog for the professor too.

"See if it works," he said.

Isn't there a huge fucking line at Hot Doug's?

Spiegel is more of a twat than a Caller Bob. I would reserve the word "Caller Bob" for someone who exhibits a special sort of vileness in their behaviors.

caller to the smoldering remains of the opie and anthony show the other day was talking about a tinder hookup gone wrong where the chick neglected to mention where she was 300lb, so at some point things broke down after he made it obvious he wasn't going to fuck her but hey a blowjob would be great. she went off to get something and dude had his back turned, so she ran right back at him with a scarf and ended up starting to choke him to death. he had to coldcock the bitch (oh the irony) and get the fuck out of there.

i think that's a Caller Bob, right?

and if speigel was a Caller Bob, well i don't think he'd choke you out as much as he'd make you feel stupid before he left to get a sandwich.

You know, this got me thinking back to my intern days around 20 years ago. Yeah, I had to do all the crap prep work no one wants to do. Typing, mailing shit, making phone calls. However, I don't think I ever once had to fetch even a coffee for the dudes I was interning for. In fact, they bought and brought me food. If it was me interning for Grimace, I'd tell him to shove it up his fat ass, and look for another place to intern at. You're supposed to kind of be learning how the job works for your future career. Want to be a waiter? Get a job at Chili's.

That is how it should be. The whole concept of an intern is more for the benefit of the intern than the company.

The fact that Spiegel goes all "Devil Wears Prada" on college kids who think it would be cool to enter a dying industry is sad and pathetic.

caller to the smoldering remains of the opie and anthony show the other day was talking about a tinder hookup gone wrong where the chick neglected to mention where she was 300lb, so at some point things broke down after he made it obvious he wasn't going to fuck her but hey a blowjob would be great. she went off to get something and dude had his back turned, so she ran right back at him with a scarf and ended up starting to choke him to death. he had to coldcock the bitch (oh the irony) and get the fuck out of there.

i think that's a Caller Bob, right?

Spiegs addressed this. The line was cut off early this morning. Tounge in cheek. Intern went nowhere.

Spiegs addressed this. The line was cut off early this morning. Tounge in cheek. Intern went nowhere.

Right, but the joke is the long line

Speigs thinks its perfectly acceptable to make the kid his personal gofer, just not when its a long line



Matt Spiegel learned how to deal with interns by watching 80's movies apparently

best part = how the black guy didn't even sit down. i can relate.

PLEASE GOD TELL ME THAT I CAN FUCKING RELATE!!!!!!!!!!! =P

I like the guy who says, "I'm sorry but I'm actually married."

bathroom guy is better/realer. we've all been there, les, we've all been there. sometimes you just gotta go.