You might want to bring in more than just 1. The gates open at 5 usually, and you can get there as early as you want. Not that you need to get rip roarin' drunk, but you might want to enjoy more than just 2 glasses of wine thru the nite.

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He lost the whole arm in WW1. A bunch of composers wrote music for him featuring only one arm. He was kind of a dick though and hated 90% of them. True story.

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Fire Phil Emery

Cant help but think of the one armed violinist in "Hollywood knights". He was a dick too.

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You cannot make me care about the WNBA.

I'm sure we will bring a bottle or two. Don't know how early we will get there as I will have to pick up huffy from work, but I'm sure we will have time to enjoy some beverages

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Get there as early as you can if you want prime lawn space. You don't want to show up late and be off in the distance, or by the food court.

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we have seats but do want to hang out on the lawn before hand...slum it before we get to sit with the hoi poli

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Wouldn't the hoi polloi be the people on the lawn? And isn't "the hoi polloi" a redundancy?

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I just wouldn't want to sit amongst the poi.

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Yes to both questions.

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Then imagine how I feel. I was gonna post something similar until I saw your post.

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"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." ~ H.L. Mencken

It's all shitkicking.

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I was never a wine drinker, but isn't this akin to saying bring your smoothest plastic bottle of vodka?

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"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." ~ H.L. Mencken

oooppppssss, my bad

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bump....any other tips for tomorrow i should know about?

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Bring plenty of ice

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

Try to sit on the east side of the park. The Metra train at the end of the night sits at the station there outside the west gate from about 915-930 til shows end, so if you are in the back or on the west part of the lawn you will end up straining to hear some of the music over the locomotive engine. Also try and sit about 15-20 feet behind one of the speakers. We were there last Saturday and did both of those above, had a really nice evening. Was able to hear everything pretty well. Heard the train off in the distance, but it was nothing like last year when we sat in the back probably less than 100 yards from the train tracks.

You don't have to rush to get out of there either. Leaving the parking lot was pretty easy the couple times we went, and after the performance ends you can sit there for a solid 15-20 min before they really start moving people out. Gives you time to finish your last drink and lets the crowd get a head start on leaving. Don't forget a couple of citronella candles to keep the bugs away.

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These work better, and don't smell like citronella.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Yeah, but you look like a ghey with one of those clipped to you.

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leave your goofy husband at home

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

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Gheyer than sitting around citronella candles?

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Candles add to the atmosphere of a having a nice evening out with your girl.

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Could there possibly be anything more painful than sitting through a Glen Campbell and Ronnie Milsap concert?

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Standing through a Glen Campbell and Ronnie Milsap concert?

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Ha ha ha! It is hard to argue with that logic.

I honestly thought that Glen Campbell was in the advanced stages of dementia. If he is, it is very cruel to put him out on stage, in front of dozens of his fans. Does he utilize cue cards with the lyrics on them?

LIKE A RHINESTONE COWBOY
GETTING (SOMETHING) BY PEOPLE I DON'T EVEN KNOW
IN THE RODEO
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"We want all you Rhinestone Cowboys and Cowgals to come down to Ravinia and see us! Sadly, Conway Twitty died in 1993, and can't be with us."

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WHOA,right there. I have Glen's last album (2012). It was great and so was his career.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Not even close. Ha ha ha!

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