no!

Thanks. I was thinking of you when I read that. Don't you wish you were back there?

I was just reading that Chicago is breaking records. Hope she is well. Minus 5 for Pittsburgh tonight.

yes!

Feeling guilty for sending my darling daughter back to college yesterday-right outside Chicago- to a balmy -11. Just updated to "feels like -39."

I hear Beastie Boys in my head when the brass monkey is tossed about.

"big guy?" Only assholes say that. (Unless you're talking to a dog. Or maybe a baby.)

Whoa!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_IlNbsIL...

Chicago is like the east coast about suits. He moved on from the firm very quickly. Much later, a crazed gunman burst into the law firm, killing several people and wounding many others.

I actually HAVE read an explanation, though it cited no sources so I hesitate to mention it here.

While I am not a "believer" (I know of a number of environment conditions blamed on "global warming" which have proven to have other explanations), I do think it important to separate weather from climate. If it's cold here in Minnesota in January, that's just typical weather. A long-term trend or changes in long-term trends in other parts of the world (the earth is a more or less closed system after all)....that would be another matter.

We are only going to 9 below. I guess that aint so bad. So would they actually lose a great lawyer if they didn't wear a tie? How strict were they with that?

climate CHANGE not warming anymore.
here's my deep freeze story. it was early ninties and we lived in this old (1840) house in Downers Grove. The garage was big enough for a model T but not our car. so for days it sat in the driveway with below 20's as the high, not starting. My husband was not far from the train station so he bundled up well but decided to forgo the shirt and tie and wore wool turtlenecks instead. When he got downtown Chicago, and off the train, he had to cross a bridge over a Lake Michigan causeway to the where his building was. Lots of frigid wind whipping off the ice and blasting the commuters. He finally gets to work, begins to thaw out when the new jr partner comes in to his office and asks "where's your tie, big guy?"
Now my husband is not one for conforming to stupid protocol in the first place so replies-"where's yours?" the jr partner is taken back at this insubordination and sputters "you-yo-you know I have a back problem and can't wear one for long periods of time." "No, I didn't know and don't care why you're not wearing a tie-why are you asking about mine?"
"We have a dress code in this office, you are well aware." "yes, but it's been 20 below the last several days and I'm walking some distance to get here in the cold. what does this have to do with patent law?" anyway the argument reached a stalemate and shortly after-a senior partner came in and started in in. My husband said if the lead senior partner (the one who gave him all of his work) said he had to wear a tie when it was this cold he'd talk to him. No one brought it up again.It's another one of those perilous,
nowadays, it's hard to get him to button his Hawaiian shirt for work. ;)

I know someone will explain how this is all consistent with global warming.

The one in South Jeffco in Littleton?

Sorry for your troubles...
"....and it's strange how the "music" changes when they disappear..." Poem / song "Molley O'Malley's

I've been thinking about putting my toes back into the political pool; we might be there.

ah, you mentioned dogs. ;(
have a sick welsh .not looking good...

Ahhhh... It's only -14 with a 20mph wind right now.
Rouse the dogs early, pee on the runners and get a little "run" in while it's still "brisk".

close enough. stay warm

Johnny Horton! good song but I like this one better! Battle of New Orleans.
http://youtu.be/50_iRIcxsz0

I've never run across anything substantive...I love colloquialisms, so search them out regularly. Only references are contemporary interpretations of suckling the "Devils" "spawn" and being heartless (cold).

understand

Yes you did post it. Unfortunately, the 9th is the kick off of a new local Tea Party in Jefferson County. I plan to be there in support.

Thanks. I'll look for it.

before galting- Colorado Springs
I'm having deja vu here. maybe we already discussed this. there are some great events going on you might like. Pikes Peak Economics Club for example. Yaron Brook spoke last year for example. Dr. Prentice was an economist in the Reagan administration. I'll post the next speaker.

Bullets make it die; fenders make it fly!