There are stories that are already "picked" for us by an editor that he beleives might capture our interest. Sometimes they are right on. I also like the paper for coupons,store ads,upcoming nightlife info,etc. I'm surprised the newspaper business has hit rough times like it has,to this degree at least.

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

My fear was my grandmother answering the phone before me. She was a big hater. Her favorite line was "Ain't you that gal that just called here?" Very rarely was she right.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

8 track players. Good god did they blow. Songs stopping in the middle bleeding out and back in on the next track. My first car a 1973 Mercury Montego had an 8 track. Last 8 track I ever bought was Led Zepplins In Through The Out Door. Upgraded to a better car with cassette soon after that.

Grandma blockin you. That's hilarious.

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Kid Cairo's Boers & Bernstein YouTube Channel

Kid Cairo: 2013 March Madness Tournament Winner!

"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

Cliff Johnson. He lived in my hometown of Oak Park.

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Having to answer questions in regards to whether you were wearing Bugle Boy jeans.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

on back to school sale at TJ Maxx?

Having to pull out the big-ol' dusty dictionary to look up how to spell words like microfiche.

Having to walk into the gas station to pay for gas..

Sitting in the kitchen where the only phone was to talk to friends while mom and dad listen in on the convo.

Entertainment options in the wee hours have greatly improved

I've been up all night and Ive read some opinions on Syria, watched an episode of the wire, researched a news anchor, and caught up o. Everyone elses business on facebook

This was not possible prior to 1995

The best you could hope for was a decent old movie on tv

i did like seeing the old 900 sex party line number commercials, and the don lapre infomercials.

I remember the Deerfield plaza as being the worst.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

For nightlife, there was always Starbeat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_o6K_OKlW0

I remember going to Prime-N-Tender a few times in H.S. I think...or maybe I'm confusing that with someplace that was in Oak Lawn.

Walk into the gas station? Early in life you didn't even pump your own gas. You drove in over a wire that rang a bell and an attendant came out. I remember my parents taking us on a Caribbean vacation where my father had to get out and pump his own gas. It was sufficiently remarkable that we took a picture. Still early in my life I remember it switching to a lower price on gas if you pumped it yourself, which naturally led to the end of gas attendants.

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

Nixon years. Gas spike. Old man predicted the end of the world when gas hit 42.7 cents/gallon.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Not going to read this entire thread, because eff that, but that's why major cities were given area codes with low digits. New York 212, Chicago 312, Los Angeles 213, etc.

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Fire Phil Emery

San Bernardino/Riverside got stuck with 909. Sucks to be them!

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Is that the Golf Rd. roundabout?

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Sex isn't dirty, sex isn't a crime. It's a loving act between two or more consenting adults.

-Hank Kingsley

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2018
#ExtendLafleur
10 More Wins

My dog having the Hi-Pro Glow.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George