We'll start this how we will always start this. It will be a tradition...

Good Dolphin, have you ever banged a black guy?

Now, I know the answer is "yes". I just want you to publicly admit it.

He is a black woman. He’s said so many times.

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You know me like that.

Did you become a Sox fan for street cred?

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Do you feel superior to other Catholics because you grew up in the Basilica?

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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

What year is the best year?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

why do you start so many unnecessary repititive threads every time a sports thought crosses your mind? does it make you feel more special if you are post #1 rather than adding thoughts to an existing thread?

No. One time in class the African American girl sitting in front of me turned around and asked me if she thought I was pretty or something like that. Your boy wasn't the silver tongued devil he is today and totally froze on the question.

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

My dad worked days and the Sox were the only team in town that played night games in my youth. Comiskey Park was a fascinating place back in those days with the exploding scoreboard, OF shower and every pre game was some special show. THis was the era of Harry and Jimmy when watching at home. I also remember the people at the games always being an interesting bunch, lots of cigars and drinking. I don't know why everyone from my age group didn't end up being a Sox fan.

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

MFK: Noisewater, Beardown, Regular Reader

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You have described your devotion to Catholicism many times on this board. Do you believe in the story of Jesus as it is told in the Bible?

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Who makes the best paczki in/around Chicago?

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You have often mentioned some events and some happenings with your In Laws that you haven't appreciated. Wisely, you generally say that you mind your business and let most things slide. Has there been one time where you got up on your hind legs and didn't let something they did/said just go by the wayside?

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a basilica really only denotes a church where the pope can say mass

I remember the pope coming to Chicago. My parents brought me to the corner of Milwaukee and Lawrence to catch a glimpse of his car as he drove by. This is practically the seat of north side Polonia in a city that was the center for Polish immigration the height of eastern European immigration with a Polish pope coming to the US. I sat on that corner for an interminable amount of time in a sea of unshowered immigrant humanity. Then his motorcade came past and I saw the man. We would meet again about 15 years later in Rome.

He did not stop at QAS and neither have any of the other popes, so no, it does not make me feel superior.

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

Stop pandering. You know.

2005!

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

Do you believe that Mary and Elizabeth made a pregnancy pact?

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

POTY

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"You know we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening."

Back in 1990, I had a beautiful and curvy (and possibly visually-impaired or extremely Christian, in the redistributive--genetically redistributive--way) Latina tell me how much she adored Faulkner and had no one with which she could discuss him, and when the Archer bus got to 35th, I said, "Uh, here's my stop, dude."

Bro hugs.

If I'm not mistaken, it's also an architectural designation.

I may have been projecting there. I always thought we were special being members at Queens rather than one of the many mundane churches in the area.

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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

The muses take me wherever they wish. It is my hands that are physically typing but they are speaking through me. I am like the Oracle at Delphi. I look into the pit and ask Halas the question for the board. He answers through me.

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

They wouldn't let the Queens march at the St. Paddy's Day parade, but I don't think good dolphin went to that (for ethnic reasons).

I've never met Beardown. Ken looks a little too mature but he is a good provider. Even though RR is the oldest, black don't crack.

F: Regular Reader
M: Ken
K: Beardown

sorry Beardown, I wouldn't want to do it

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

Being Polish I do remember the Papal visit of JP2 exactly as you did. I stood on the corner of 66th and California as he came by. A framed picture of that was on our dining room wall ever since. For whatever reason though I thought he did say a mass at Quigley but apparently not. He certainly visited or else why go down California to get to Wester and hence Quigley?

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Elections have consequences.

Is there something specific?

I don't think there is any ruling that the bible is a strict history, but generally yes. I think there is some contextual writing in the bible that is suggestive of different meanings than the straightforward reading, including things like numerology. You can find what I believe in the Nicene Creed. I believe in one God...

I have to say, I see myself as a hypocrite in my faith. I knowingly miss or don't follow items. I know enough about it but I fail when it comes to what I would consider devotion.

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

I believe it is Kasia's, which you can have flash frozen and shipped to Massachusetts if you wish. You might think it is just another mass produced pierogi. However, Kasia was serving that stuff up in a corner deli long before they became more widely available.

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

I'm still married, aren't I?

I've also said my in laws are great people who I both love and respect. I couldn't ask for a better relationship. There are people who have almost a father/mother relationship with their in laws. I have a father and mother I am perfectly happy with filling that role.

Here is a little story that I live with: after we got engaged, we sat with our parents to discuss the wedding. I had witnessed previous family weddings that had turned into a kiele, with the other sides roots and traditions barely being recognized. I told them that day that I did not want an over the top Irish wedding. They sat there in shock, not understanding in the past that bagpipes, an irish dancing troupe, invitations with st. brigid's crosses, etc. might give half the crowd the idea that I had somehow distanced myself from my ethnicity. I knew it would be an uphill battle but I needed it thrown down because the old lady had so dominated previous weddings and frankly, the people footing the majority of the bill weren't sons of eiren. Well, it certainly didn't turn out exactly how I wanted but there were corresponding moves on my part so that the crowd in the end was singing Stolat rather than cead mille failte. I learned the give and take, not of marriage, but of a happy extended family life in that period.

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

It is clear from the story that Elizabeth's pregnancy preceded Mary's by at least six months.

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

How can one not feel superior to churches like St. May of the Woods, with that 60s architecture.

I look at QAS as faux ancient, like something Disney would create in his park to make the sweaty masses think they were looking at an old European church. I prefer the ones in this city built by different ethnic groups at the turn of the century.

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

Thanks, but what about paczki?

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I have marched in several St. Patrick's Day parades as well as Polish Constitution Day parades. I have marched in more parades across this state than I care to remember. There was one time where I was organizing a march down state. One of the families marching with me had a very cute foreign exchange student from Germany living with them, for whatever reason. I talked her up, telling her she had to come up to Chicago for the Christkindlemarket and Lincoln Square. The family looked at me like I was stealing Little Ricky's girlfriend from Better Off Dead.

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

Theres an easy joke there for someone more willing to offend

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