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I'm just saying, it's like buying a car or anything else. The person sets their price, you can counter. Maybe it goes nowhere, maybe not, but if you don't try they will always take the higher dollar amount.

When my friend Andrew moved to the city he offered every landlord $75 less than they were asking, and half of them took it with little hesitation. He ended up getting a really nice place in the Square for just over $600.

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Buster: I’m so hungry.

Lindsay: Would you like to try some of this?

Buster: It’s so watery. And yet there’s a smack of ham to it.

Lindsay: It’s hot ham water.

― n/a, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Did you know that on Firefox you can the "?" key and it does the same thing as hitting Ctrl+F?

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

i talked down my place on augusta blvd $50 and the guy accepted it so fast that i felt like a sucker not asking for a larger amount. we also talked the dude down on our 3 bedroom on austin but then gave it all back when he found out we had a dog.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost Because having someone living there paying rent is a lot better in most landlord's books than having it empty while trying to find someone new.

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Good to know that's Nolan's photo - I have to see if any of the ones he took of me last summer turned out.

John - funny, I just read about that B96 show (for my work) in the past month - it's very much the same idea.

Yesterday i was trying to sing along with Otis Redding's "Tramp" and it must've seemed nuts. Someone said, "What was that rap song?"

― Eazy, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Did you know that on Firefox you can the "?" key and it does the same thing as hitting Ctrl+F?

I did not know that! Very cool. You r a power user!

― kenan, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I just the "?" key and all it did was make a question mark. Whut r I doing wrong???

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Seymour Skinner: Superintendent, I hope you're ready for mouth-watering hamburgers.
Superintendent Chalmers: I thought we were having steamed clams.
Seymour Skinner: Oh, no, I said steamed hams. That's what I call hamburgers.
Superintendent Chalmers: You call hamburgers steamed hams?
Seymour Skinner: Yes, it's a regional dialect.
Superintendent Chalmers: Uh-huh. What region?
Seymour Skinner: Uhh ... Upstate New York.
Superintendent Chalmers: Really? Well, I'm from Utica, and I've never heard anyone use the phrase 'steamed hams.'
Seymour Skinner: Oh, not in Utica. No, it's an Albany expression.
Superintendent Chalmers: I see.

[Chalmers bites into a steamed ham.]

Superintendent Chalmers: You know, these hamburgers are quite similar to the ones they have at Krusty Burger.
Seymour Skinner: Oh ho ho, no. Patented Skinner burgers. Old family recipe.
Superintendent Chalmers: For steamed hams ...
Seymour Skinner: Yes ...
Superintendent Chalmers: Yes, and you call them steamed hams despite the fact that they are obviously grilled.
Seymour Skinner: You know I— One thing I sh— Excuse me for one second.

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

You can't have your cursor in the response box.

― KitCat, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

That would have been better as

"I just the "?" key and happened. Whut r I doing wrong???

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I tried it with my cursor out of the response back, and it still didn't open up Find. But the great thing about Find on Firefox is that once you open it, it's always there at the bottom of your screen, and it's so unobtrusive you don't ever need to close it.

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I watched a new episode of the Simpsons last night. It was sooooooooooooo bad. :( Even the animation is worse.

― n/a, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I watched that episode, too! In fact, I even got a few chuckles from it. Not peak-level but certainly not terrible.

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse's post is a little misleading. What you want to hit is forward slash. Same key, no shift.

― kenan, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeh, you're right. You can see why I might think it is the ? mark though, I guess. Or maybe not. I don't know.

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

No Simpsons arguments, PLEASE!

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Yay! Boo! Yay, yay! Boo!

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I wasn't actually confused, I was just shittly making fun of Jesse's typos.

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I love how you're being all "don't talk about X!" today when you were the one who goaded me into a conversation that nobody actually wanted to have on Saturday morning.

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Let's talk about X, baby.

― KitCat, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

You know what? It sucks that there aren't any great apartments in Lincoln Square because I love that little 'hood.

What did we discover is the name for that neighborhood just to the south of Roscoe Village? Where Hamlin Park is?

― KitCat, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

We saw some pretty good ones in lincoln square. ~$800 a month.

― Jeff, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I would actually still call that Roscoe Village. It's too far north to be Bucktown.

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

hamlin park is up on damen around addison or belmont, i like it up there but dear god i hate the traffic flow up there. it's nice sarah, if you're looking for roscoe village-y it should be agreeable.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Hamlin Park is actually on Damen between Wellington and Barry.

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry sarah, i was off two blocks in my belmont estimate.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Although I once told a passerby that it was at Damen and Belmont, but I was thinking of that other little park there. Actually, I didn't even say Damen and Belmont, I said "a couple blocks up, a couple blocks over" because I was caught off-guard. When people ask me for directions, I have to act quick, and so sometimes I later realize that I could have been more specific, and I beat myself up over it. Like "No you dummy, from here Devon is two miles, not a mile and a half."

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Kevin, I only corrected you because a) I wanted to make sure you weren't thinking of the same little park that I was thinking of, which is not Hamlin Park, and b) if it were somewhere between Belmont and Addison, then it *definitely* would be considered Roscoe Village. Sarah wasn't asking where Hamlin Park is, she was asking what the area was called. If it's at Wellington, then I should think there would still be some debate about that.

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

The one at Belmont/Damen is Fellger Playlot Park.

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I live in Logan Square. If I lived on the other side of Diversey I would live in Avondale. I don't think about this a lot, though.

Hey, you know what I discovered last night? The chinese/sushi place Papajin delivers all the way from Wicker Park to my house, and even farther north and west! I am going to abuse the shit out of this, I have a feeling.

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

reason #908273 I miss my old apartment and landlady: she's the only one who can get away with sending me email forwards without incurring my wrath

It has been scientifically proven that if we drink 1 liter of water
each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of
Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria found in feces. In other words, we are
consuming 1 kilo of Poo.

However, we do not run that risk when drinking wine (or rum, whiskey,
beer or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification
process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.

WATER = Poo

WINE = HEALTH

Ergo: It is better to drink wine and talk stupid than to drink water
and be full of crap.

There is no need to thank me for this valuable information;
I am doing it as a public service.

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

thank you for your thorough explanative posts john, as always, a treat.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude, what is people's deal with me today?

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

So, apparently there ARE a ton of cheap apartments up in Lincoln Square, but I just didn't notice any of them on craigslist because I was being snobby and only looking at ads with pix.

― KitCat, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude, what is people's deal with me today?

Ha. What is our problem? Today?

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I just ate a big bowl of lima beans. Because lima beans are delish.

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse, sometimes with you I feel like I'm on an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, except not funny at all, where every rule of etiquette or code of behavior that I unwittingly defy makes you apoplectic.

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know what Kevin's problem is.

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I went home and ate TJ's hot dogs and guacamole chips. Neither were very good.

― Jordan, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

OKAY GUYS, STOP FIGHTING AND HELP ME OUT WITH THIS:

While driving through Waunakee, WI on the way back from a gig on Saturday, I saw a sign in front of US Bank that read the following:

"OSAMA SAYS, WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN"

WTF does it mean??!

― Jordan, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

That's deep, man.

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

What?

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

BETSIMPSIER

― kenan, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Really makes you think, eh?

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Fine then, screw you too.

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

What? I was talking about the sign.

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Wisconsin is chock full of such roadside riddles.

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

John, sometimes I wonder if you ever listen to yourself, because for a person who I wd normally expect to be very cognizant of sub-text & implication, you've got a genius for making giant assumptions implicit in what you write and then basing your logic on said assumptions. That's what people are reacting to.

― Laurel, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Our little online society, it's crumbling!

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

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