MooPig Architecture Nano-second Department :: "The Tallest Buidling ..."

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Is in Dubai...
Taller Tales Articles by Pat Darnell  |  July 28, 2015  |  Bryan TX

Take a nano-second out of your busy day and contemplate Tall Buildings around the world. What, and who do they house? We sure don't know who leases all that high floor space. What we do know is that tallest skyscrapers are almost always structures that define a place. That is they are what puts many places on the maps.

Sears Tower, a skyscraper in Chicago that was the tallest building in the world until the construction of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, put Chicago on the map for many years. Yes, that is Sears and Roebuck Company, but is now called Willis Tower, because "... London-based insurance broker Willis Group Holdings got a steal at $1 million per year [starting March 2009] for the naming rights as long as it leases at least 103,716 square feet in the building. Their lease is up in 2025. ( Melissa Harris, Chicago Tribune. March 4, 2015. LINK)..."

In the United States, "... Completed in 1973 as the Sears Tower, the 110-story building was the world's tallest for 23 years. It lost its designation of tallest in the U.S. after the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat ruled in 2013 that New York's One World Trade Center is taller.(ibid. Harris) ..."

Which brings us to the article we found about a very tall building to be built in China ... Changsha Tower ... building whose construction has been halted now for two years: "...The proposed Sky City tower was set to become the world's tallest building, but its construction was postponed just days after it started in 2013, amid safety fears and a lack of necessary government approval.(de zeen magazine, 20 July 2015. LINK) ..."

This modern hypodermic needle designed tower at 838 meters high, was to be built using modular components -- after pouring its foundation -- in only 90 days. YIKES! The large 2.6 hectare holes dug for its foundation have been filled in and are now fish farms and melon patches. Read more about it in this LINK 'ed title:

Planned skyscraper plot in China repurposed as fish farm: "At present the title of world's tallest building is held by the SOM-designed Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which stands at a height of 828 metres. It is expected to be overtaken by the Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, which is already under construction with a projected height of over 1,000 metres."

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CONCLUSION
Land use has been the story of mankind. Bluntly, land grabs are the common denominator in humankind's history. How a hectare of land is "purposed" depends on the meeting of imaginations of humans who over come the imaginations of others who oppose with their own purposes. Once there is a meeting of minds, towers will be built. The mega-universal-corporation in the US that leases the majority of space in tall buildings usually gets to name that tall building.



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http://www.dezeen.com/2015/07/20/foundations-planned-worlds-tallest-building-changsha-china-repurposed-fish-farm-skyscraper-broad-sustainable-building/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-willis-tower-for-sale-0305-biz-20150304-story.html
http://www.dezeen.com/2015/07/06/premiere-tower-beyonce-inspired-skyscraper-melbourne-elenberg-fraser/

More News from Chicago :: "Chicago pays $22.5 MILLION to woman who was gang raped..."

"Two Bizarre Cases with the City's Finest at Fault"
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Jan 17, 2013 | Bryan TX

[Picture LINK] City agrees today to give the staggering sum to Christina Eilman who was released from police custody into a high-crime area where she was gang raped and plummeted from a seventh floor window...

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City of Chicago to pay millions to settle cases of wrongfully convicted man Alton Logan, raped woman Christina Eilman who fell from window | abc7chicago.com: "January 15, 2013 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- A man wrongfully convicted of murder and a woman who fell from a seventh-floor window after being raped could both receive millions of dollars in settlements from the city of Chicago.

Alton Logan was freed in 2008 after spending 26 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Logan says detectives under now-convicted former Area 2 Commander Jon Burge were behind the coverup that led to his conviction for the murder of an off-duty Cook County corrections officer."

'via Blog this'

Homicides in Chicago were up 17% in 2012 from the previous year. It is reported that the total of 500 for the year hit in December before the year ended.

" ... McCarthy issued a statement declaring: “The city has seen its 500th homicide for 2012, a tragic number that is reflective of the gang violence and proliferation of illegal guns that have plagued some of our neighborhoods.”

While saying every homicide is unacceptable, he went on to laud the department’s overall crime reduction. (Jeremy Gorner and Peter Nickeas | Tribune reporters. December 28, 2012. Here) ... "

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http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8954998
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/20593424/city-council-to-vote-on-33-million-in-settlements-for-police-misconduct-cases-christina-eilman-alton-logan
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-12-28/news/chi-chicago-2012-homicide-toll-20121228_1_latest-homicide-500th-homicide-tragic-number
http://thebeerbarrel.net/threads/chicago-pays-22-5-million-to-woman-who-was-gang-raped.18686/

MooPig 12 Days of Doom Prep :: "Infestations"

Have you Seen these Around?
Picked up by Pat Darnell and the Herd | Jan 17, 2013 | Bryan TX

Worst Bed Bug Cities 2012: Chicago Moves Up To Claim Orkin's Top Spot For Pest Treatment (PHOTOS): "It's a distinction no city wants near its name: Number One In Bedbugs. The dubious honor this year goes to Chicago, which crept past the 2011 winner Cincinnati on pest control company Orkin's annual listing of cities with the most treatments for bed bug infestations.

(See the top 10 worst cities for bed bugs below.)

The ranking is culled from the list of cities most frequently visited between January and December of 2012 (which is why this isn't the "Worst Cities 2013" list), a year after the pest-control company saw a huge uptick in bed bug infestations. According to a press release issued Tuesday, Orkin's parent company, Rollins, "saw a nearly 33 percent increase in bed bug business compared to 2011.""

'via Blog this'

• #15 Raleigh/Durham/Fayetteville, N.C.
• #14 San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose
• #13 Seattle/Tacoma
• #12 Richmond/Petersburg, Va.
• #11 Dayton, Ohio
• #10 New York
• #9 Dallas/Ft. Worth
• #8 Cleveland/Akron/Canton
• #7 Washington, D.C.
• #6 Columbus, Ohio
• #5 Cincinnati
• #4 Denver
• #3 Los Angeles
• #2. Detroit
• #1 Chicago                     

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/16/worst-bed-bug-cities-2012_n_2487525.html?ir=chicago&utm_campaign=011613&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Alert-chicago&utm_content=FullStory

MooPig's Report from the Mid-West :: "Illinois Tollway says glitch caused havoc"

Don't Mess with Chicago Tollways, they are a Money Pit
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Dec 10, 2011 | Bryan TX

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Illinois Tollway says glitch caused havoc with I-PASS users' accounts - chicagotribune.com:
" ... Tollway spokeswoman Wendy Abrams said the problem was traced to software used by its toll collection contractor, Electronic Transaction Consultants Corp., of Richardson, Texas."

Former tollway board member Bill Morris had advocated for a new system sooner. Morris said Friday that the latest flub comes at an especially bad time — just as basic I-PASS tolls are about to rise 87.5 percent Jan. 1.

[Tollway spokeswoman Wendy Abrams] ... Abrams said the glitch won't hasten the agency's plans to replace the complex license-plate-reading and collection system. The agency plans to install a new system by 2014.
'via Blog this'


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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-tollway-ipass-accounts-20111210,0,71416.story
http://enjoyillinois.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/wake-up-youve-just-driven-over-the-biggest-hole-in-america/

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Magnificent Mile Lights Festival - chicagotribune.com

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Nov 19, 2011 | Bryan TX

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Magnificent Mile Lights Festival - chicagotribune.com: "Mickey, Minnie and Disney turn the Magnificent Mile into the Happiest Place on Earth today during the Magnificent Mile Lights Festival kickoff weekend.

The festivities include the lighting procession, led by Mickey and Minnie, and performances by "A.N.T. Farm" star China Anne McClain (with her sisters Lauryn and Sierra), and others. For a complete schedule, go to magnificentmilelightsfestival.com."

Read entire Article HERE ...

'via Blog this'

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http://m.wikitravel.org/en/Chicago/Loop
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/holidaily/ct-lights-festival,0,4874283.story

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Chicago Pic's

by Pat Darnell |  Sep 27-Oct 3, 2011   |   Bryan TX

Weed Watch

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Investigation into pot sales leads to three arrests | Bryan/College Station, Texas - The Eagle:

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | August 23, 2011 | Bryan TX

EXCERPT | " ... Jennifer Danielle Stillisano and Joshua Garrett Foley, both 30, were each charged Tuesday with possession of from four ounces to five pounds of marijuana in a drug-free zone. A 31-year-old man was charged with possession of less than two ounces of marijuana. (EAGLE Staff Writer. Published Tuesday, August 23, 2011 9:58 AM) ... "

A College Station officer said in a police report that he served a search warrant Monday at the East 28th Street home of Stillisano and her husband, Foley, as part of an investigation into sales of marijuana there.

The officer found a large amount of marijuana, about 140 marijuana plants, a digital scale and packaging materials, according to the police report.

... MEANWHILE ...

August 23, 2011 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Chicago Police have arrested seven suspects and seized more than six tons of marijuana in a major narcotics bust on the Southwest Side.

Officers displayed the narcotics in a police garage on Tuesday. Police estimate the pot has a street value of more than $33 million.

Police say, when a source told them a warehouse on South Kolmar was used in the operation, they staked out the warehouse and saw a semi trailer truck enter. They say metal containers filled with drugs were unloaded and put into cars.

In addition to arresting the suspects, police confiscated seven vehicles, a rifle, and a pistol.

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http://www.theeagle.com/police/Investigation-into-pot-sales-leads-to-three-arrests?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheEagleRegionAndState+%28The+Eagle+Local%29
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8322789

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This Just In :: From Field Correspondent Guy Visconti, Chicago, IL

Retrieved from Email, not kidding, by Pat Darnell

Subject: 13 THINGS YOUR BURGLAR WON'T TELL YOU
1. Of course I look familiar. I was here just last week cleaning your
carpets, painting your shutters, or delivering your new refrigerator.

2. Hey, thanks for letting me use the bathroom when I was working in your
yard last week. While I was in there, I unlatched the back window to make my
return a little easier.

3. Love those flowers. That tells me you have taste... and taste means there
are nice things inside. Those yard toys your kids leave out always make me
wonder what type of gaming system they have.

4. Yes, I really do look for newspapers piled up on the driveway. And I
might leave a pizza flyer in your front door to see how long it takes you to
remove it..

5. If it snows while you're out of town, get a neighbor to create car and
foot tracks into the house.. Virgin drifts in the driveway are a dead
giveaway.

6. If decorative glass is part of your front entrance, don't let your alarm
company install the control pad where I can see if it's set. That makes it
too easy.

7. A good security company alarms the window over the sink. And the windows
on the second floor, which often access the master bedroom - and your
jewelry. It's not a bad idea to put motion detectors up there too.

8. It's raining, you're fumbling with your umbrella, and you forget to lock
your door - understandable. But understand this: I don't take a day off
because of bad weather.

9. I always knock first. If you answer, I'll ask for directions somewhere or
offer to clean your gutters. (Don't take me up on it.)

10. Do you really think I won't look in your sock drawer? I always check
dresser drawers, the bedside table, and the medicine cabinet.

11. Here's a helpful hint: I almost never go into kids' rooms.

12. You're right: I won't have enough time to break into that safe where you
keep your valuables. But if it's not bolted down, I'll take it with me.

13. A loud TV or radio can be a better deterrent than the best alarm system.
If you're reluctant to leave your TV on while you're out of town, you can
buy a $35 device that works on a timer and simulates the flickering glow of
a real television.

This bit has been a cleverly disguised, MooPig Approved, advertisement for:
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C*H*I*C*A*G loses its *O*

Two Point Five Billion is Enough
by Pat Darnell and Retiring Others

We have a number at last. The number that makes them retire: $2,500,000,000. Now we have a cornerstone; now we have a benchmark. There is something about that number. It has been cropping up in current events as a major figure in our capstone of Black on Woman Candidates; and glamor override from charismatic First Ladies... ambition and swollen resumes, couch jumping and aboriginal lock out. Decency now has a Price: $2.5 in 25 years. What a life: what a city !

Of course if properly handled those numbers will double in half the time, to say $5b in 12 more years -- yet Childhood obesity could have been the *O* effect in post Obama Oprah-sized Omerica. No, it dwindled down into a trickle of charades and demo's of new recipes that over-nourish our bifurcated tummy's. Could not have other issues been addressed during Oprah-uber-flaven orgies of self-ness, like: it is estimated that around the world, 2.5 billion people are without a decent toilet, while 900 million people worldwide do not have access to clean water? [whoa -- there's that 2.5 number again] With her fortune Oprah could make it rain on Afghanistan, or Iran, or wherever the poor children have no water.

It could have been all those things -- or not. Could not Oprah's farewell have been a calling to become a nun taking a vow of silence in these waning years. Couldn't she raise an army. Afterall, her years of talking about this and that, couldn't she put her money where her mouth has been, Oprah's last bidding bespeaks betrayal. Many rhetorical questions come to mind.

Rather me thinks this money sum, in summary, will be used to fortune [or buy] the next presidency. Ahh, now I know why she cries as she announces to her audience her plans to move on -- she knows that everything that follows is going to betray every troglodyte who lives by her word, including all the young fans who lost their virginity while watching her show. Think of all the arrested development to follow Oprah's quitting. Why oh why nothing is ever simple?

"Someday I'll wish upon a star,
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney top that's where you'll find me
Oh, Somewhere over the rainbow way up high
And the dream that you dare to, why, oh why can't I? I hiii ? (music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg )"

One great subject after another, and midwestern work ethic has provided Oprah and Obamah life, birthed from the loins and womb of Chicag'*O* -- as it defines economic derivatives and aspirations for futures -- $2.5b is that magic number. I always thought $20 million would suffice; silly me.

So my next obfuscated conjecture dives directly into the *O* as if it were a gaping hole somewhere in the middle of the United States. The caverns were founded by Donahue who paid for the first Oprah Shows, and I was there in front of the boob box, watching the baton exchange hands. In Chicago before it gave its *O* to Oprah in 1986 I worked the next 25 years in company of work-place daily direct quotes of what the Lady *O* said the day before. Obamah-Oprah Omerica obselecence is preserved in Middle America, land bound, and it is now rooted well enough below freeze lines to sprout Neo-Dark-Ages transitional narrative history: The Calamitous 21st Century on the Prairie.

Twenty five years later, and 2.5b earning interest for the Pharoah-ess of Daytime, and my oldest child just turning thirty -- *O* runs for office next?? Maybe becomes a cabinet member at her young Nubian Prince's request. Maybe her use of her cathedral-like studio to expose whitey ways, forces the hand that has ushered in and out careers. Oprah should sing -- proving once again the oldest adage ever uttered by bored kings at operas "It ain't over 'till the fat lady sings..."

Act One, It is finally *O*ver..... thanks be to GOD and all the Saints, or not? OH NO...!

Next Week :: Oprah's Replacement Rumors and GaGa..

Chicago Blues :: Still No News -- Chicago Number One in Stress 2008 - 09

Ted Kennedy's death; 'Cash for clunkers' numbers; and Chicago's Stress Factor by Rob Manker August 27, 2009 [HERE]

Ted Kennedy Dies Ongoing Commentary [Excerpted Article retrieved HERE by PD] ... Former U.S. Sen. Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy (Feb. 22, 1932 - Aug. 25, 2009) served 37 years as senator for the state of Massachusetts before dying of brain cancer.

At the time of his death, he was the third-longest serving senator in U.S. history and was the second-longest active senator in Congress, having held the position since 1962.

Kennedy was the youngest of nine children and brother of former President John F. Kennedy and former New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. [Ted] Kennedy was known as a "liberal lion" for his strong stance and liberal ideology while in politics.

In 1980, he ran an unsuccessful bid for the presidency. He left behind a wife, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, and three children, Edward M. Kennedy Jr., Kara Anne Kennedy and Patrick Kennedy.

Question: Why is John F Kennedy's Presidential Portrait facing down?
In his official Presidential Portrait, JFK is facing down and seems very somber.
Best Answer - Chosen by Voters:
The artist, Aaron Shikler, was commissioned by Jackie to do several paintings, including that one after his death.
He had several pictures to go on, but the pose was ultimately inspired by a picture that was actually not of JFK, but of the youngest brother, Edward Kennedy, looking down at JFK's grave. http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jk35.html

Ca$h for Clunker$
The number :: 690,114 [SOURCE]
Sales reported under the "cash for clunkers" car rebate program, according to final data released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The total value of the rebates claimed by dealers totaled $2.88 billion of the allotted $3 billion.

The list :: Top-selling vehicles in the "cash for clunkers" program:
1. Toyota Corolla
2. Honda Civic
3. Toyota Camry
4. Ford Focus front-wheel drive
5. Hyundai Elantra

The list, part II :: Top "cash for clunkers" trade-ins:
1. Ford Explorer four-wheel drive
2. Ford F-150 pickup two-wheel drive
3. Jeep Grand Cherokee four-wheel drive
4. Ford Explorer two-wheel drive
5. Dodge Caravan/Grand Caravan two-wheel drive

Best stressed :: Chicago metro area is first in composite rankings

If you're feeling burned out lately, there might be a good reason. According to Forbes.com rankings of America's most stressful cities, (chicagotribune.com/stress), the Chicago metro area is first in composite rankings on poor air quality, high cost of living and high unemployment, among other categories. Chicago beat No. 2 Los Angeles and No. 3 New York. We blame those new parking meters.

... Few enjoy their commute. Just ask Stephen Dinwiddie, M.D.,
a psychiatrist at the University of Chicago.

"I think anybody who, like I do, commutes on the Kennedy on a daily basis knows exactly what stress is," he says, of his daily home-to-work commute on Chicago's expressway that extends from the Chicago Loop to O'Hare International Airport. "It takes anywhere from 30 minutes to several centuries—at least subjectively."

But more pressing factors make Chicago for the second year in a row the country's most stressful city. Crowding, poor air quality, a high 11 percent unemployment rate
and free-falling home values have created a cocktail of constant worry affecting
many in the Windy City.

Lee's Weather Website, Rantoul, Illinois
-- Also --
2008 :: Forbes ranks Chicago most stressful city
September 17, 2008
Chicago's rising unemployment rate, expensive gas, high population density and relatively poor air quality create a perfect storm of stress, according to Forbes magazine, which has ranked the city the most stressful in the United States. New York is No.2.

He Said That?

10:57 PM CST Obama 338 Electoral
McCain 155 Electoral

Around 11PM CST Obama will appear at Grant Park in Chicago to make his acceptance speech... while waiting some things said on the various TV news programs

258 to 178 House Democrats to Republicans projected at 10:45 PM CST

Jon Stewart to Stephen Colbert: "Stephen it looks like you brought a spoon to a fork fight..."

10:17 PM: Jesse Jackson on camera from Grant Park, Chicago with tears in his eyes and his mouth shut

McCain's concession speech: 10:30 PM CST

Divided_we_fail dot Org sponsors FOXnews tonight

10:43 PM CST Florida reports it's red electoral putting the total to 383 Dem electorals

Election Night News Stations went up against BFF / the new Paris Hilton Show, no results to report there at this time

Al Franken -- Minnesota race is too close to call because of third party variable, 10:47 PM CST

Carl Rove called MN: someone said "Carl Rove? I hate you."

56 Senate DEM seats, projected at this hour...

Daniel and Daaaaaa Coach !!!

MOLTO BENE !!!!

I get sports and superstition, but what is it with baseball and restaurants?

REPRINT: originally as shown-- Two articles, and a bottom note:

The Curse of the "Billy Goat" Sianis


Steve Gatto (2004). Da Curse of the Billy Goat: The Chicago Cubs, Pennant Races, and Curses. Lansing: Protar House. ISBN 0-9720910-4-1.

The Curse of the Billy Goat is a curse on the Chicago Cubs that was started in 1945. As the story goes, Billy Sianis, a Greek immigrant (from Paleopyrgos, Greece[1]), who owned a nearby tavern (the now-famous Billy Goat Tavern), had two $7.20 box seat tickets to Game 4 of the 1945 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers, and decided to bring along his pet goat, Murphy (or Sinovia according to some references), which Sianis had restored to health when the goat had fallen off a truck and subsequently limped into his tavern.

The goat wore a blanket with a sign pinned to it which read "We got Detroit's goat." Sianis and the goat were allowed into Wrigley Field and even paraded about on the playing field before the game before ushers intervened and led them off the field.

After a heated argument, both Sianis and the goat were permitted to stay in the stadium occupying the box seat for which he had tickets. At this point, Andy Frain (head of Wrigley Field's hired security company at the time), waved the goat's box-seat ticket in the air and proclaimed, "If he eats the ticket that would solve everything."

However, the goat did not. Before the game was over, Sianis and the goat were ejected from the stadium at the command of Cubs owner Philip Knight Wrigley due to the animal's objectionable odor.

Sianis was outraged at the ejection and allegedly placed a curse upon the Cubs that they would never win another pennant or play in a World Series at Wrigley Field again because the Cubs organization had insulted his goat, and subsequently left the U.S. to vacation in his home in Greece.

The Cubs lost Game 4 and eventually the 1945 World Series, prompting Sianis to write to Wrigley from Greece, saying, "Who stinks now?" Following a third-place finish in the National League in 1946, the Cubs would finish in the league's second division for the next 20 consecutive years.

This streak finally ended in 1967, the year after Leo Durocher became the club's manager. Since that time, the supposedly cursed Cubs have not won a National League pennant or played in a World Series – the longest pennant drought in Major League history. Sianis died in 1970.

Reference:

Why Iki Peed Ya, retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Billy_Goat , Jan 11, 2008 AM

This sporting life: The ball gets it
Mar 4th 2004

From The Economist print edition
Lifting the curse on the Chicago Cubs

SPORT and superstition have always gone hand-in-hand, but probably nowhere more than in Chicago. In 1945 the Chicago Cubs baseball team banned William Sianis, owner of the local Billy Goat Tavern, from bringing his beloved goat into the Cubs' home stadium, Wrigley Field. Mr Sianis swore that the Cubs would never again win the National League championship, and the “curse of the goat” has haunted them ever since.

Last October, it looked as if the curse would at last be broken. The Cubs had a seemingly unassailable lead in the play-offs for the National League title against the Florida Marlins. But then a home fan, Steve Bartman, unwittingly deflected a vital catch out of the hand of a Cubs outfielder, Moises Alou. The Marlins rallied, winning not only the game but the league and, eventually, the World Series.

Had the curse struck again? While Mr Bartman hid from furious fans, Grant DePorter, a local restaurateur, paid $113,000 for the infamous “foul ball”, vowing to destroy it and with it, he hoped, the Cubs' bad luck.

During its final days the condemned ball was guarded by a team of 13 security men. It was given a massage and a final meal of steak, lobster and a beer. An Oscar-winning special effects expert, Michael Lantieri, was drafted in as executioner to make the sure that ball went out with a bang.

And on the night of February 26th, when a final reprieve failed to arrive from the governor, an explosive charge reduced the ball to a useless pile of string. Its demise was shown live on national television.

I'll let ~Pribek.net fill you in with the downlow on Harry Caray from St Louis... but remember Harry did it for love...
"Since you called me out, I'll tell you what I heard.

"Harry was a Bud man long before he was a Cub fan. The story goes that Harry had some type of tryst with the old man's old lady. The old man, in this case be Augie Busch. Guess that would make Harry a Busch man, instead. (please insert any of the possible Harry and Busch punch lines of your choosing, Pat_______________________________!"

: Uhh, errr... How about "Harry the wriggly bush-man" ? >pd"Anyway, it is said that Harry had "thing" for the lady of the house. This became fairly public knowledge and shortly after it did, our intrepid, beloved, slovenly broadcaster was liquored up, leaving a downtown bar. He was struck (purposely?) by a car driven by an unidentified man."Now, whether Harry took this as a karmic warning or a genuine threat from the front office is unknown to me. Either way, Harry hit the road. He spent the next year in Oakland, which he hated. Then he ended up with the Cubs.Retrieved by Pribek From the Baseball Reference 14 Jan 2008: (http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/November_3) "1968 - St. Louis Cardinals broadcaster Harry Caray is struck by a car while crossing a street in St. Louis, and he suffers two broken legs, a broken shoulder, and a broken nose."The mystery continues."Obviously, this is all stuff I heard on the street. I don't know that there is any documentation.

"Urban legend? Well, one can only guess but, I have this same story from a lot of people in the Lou. Knowing Harry's penchant for the barley and the ladies, it seems, at the very least, plausible.

"So, I always found it the pinnacle of irony to see the old geezer dancing around in a Blues Brother suit pimping his former employer's hooch." >>Pribek.net"Jack, I agree with you; that is plausible irony. T'nks again.""Hey MooPiggers, see Pribek.net 'Trouble ain't Over' album in the sidebar above and BUY IT!... NO, BUY 13, a baker's dozen!"

"Hear Ye Hear Ye Hear Ye
As of October 3, 2007: Let it be known to the spirit of Sam Sianis and all powers that be …
I, Leon “Bill” Bartman, have sacrificed my goat life and thereby have reversed the curse and have blessed the Cubs with “The Holy Cow” and in the name of Harry, Santo, Woo, Mr. Cub, ”The Girls,” Sweet Lou, Hendry, WGN, Mr. Wrigley, Tribune Co, and The Billy Goats of the World, and the Best Fans in Baseball
I SAY
GO CUBS GO …. Go Cubs Go
Hey Chicago What Do You Say …
THE CUBS ARE GONNA WIN TODAY!"
Now for all us beloggers, how does this all percolate?

Retrieved today at: http://www.deadparrots.net/archives/2003/10/index.html


"Well, maybe not quite to Glenn Reynolds' normal traffic levels, but still ...
This is what it looks like when you're tooling along with 250-350 visitors a day, and then a perfect storm last Friday makes you Google's No. 1 search result for "Steve Bartman":

The Steve Bartman post that Google pointed to attracted well over 200 comments that day, and is up to 270 now. The final visitor tally for Friday was 12,017, nearly 10 times our previous daily high -- and the site was even down for an hour or so during peak time because of a server problem. Wild.
The traffic dropoff accompanies us completely dropping off Google's radar by the next morning. I dug 30 pages deep in the search results on Saturday and still couldn't find that post. I have no idea how that happened, and no idea why that post is now back on the second page of results.
Google works in mysterious -- and occasionally wonderful -- ways.

We all know it didn't go that way. The Cubs are still eatup with its share of bi-polar dumbasses. I guess this is where "restaurants" come in. >pd/eatup / revised Jan 14

Feeling a bit Crimped here, in the Middle!

Report from the Middle, Pat Darnell, BSBA CTU, TUA, MOFO

I really wish the goofy announcers and talkies hosts that crowd the airwaves would remember the breadbasket interior once in a while. I hear all the botched crap from Washington, DC, New York and Hollywood; hey there is botched crap in Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, Dallas and Houston. Heck even Miami could use a little crimping.

Okay let’s make corollaries: I truly wish bi-coastal’s could wise up. Is it only me... or Do others ever notice there is “No” declaration of culpability from West Coast and East Coast nudniks who think the only happenings are in the east or west coast? New Yorkers and LA’ers: say to me, with body language and with words: “We are the only happening in the country.”

Second cities are the least appreciated. Why also are they usually never mentioned on quiz shows? For instance: "What is the sister city of Evanston, IL.?" I don't know either, but certainly someone is interested in this knowledge.

Usually quips are like: “Houston is Paris just without all the beautiful buildings,” can’t remember who said it. But true it is. Tulsa is San Francisco, just with more oil wells. Chicago, the Big Onion, is Second City per Belushi days, to the Big Apple. Hey! This makes me hungry: "Say Philly can I get a philly cheese steak over here, walkin'?"

Wicked, eh? Californians should let the elements batter their faces for a whole Chicago winter before attempting to play a role in the rust belt. In this photo of two grumpier-than-grumpier has-beens, who of the two has the better face lift?

I get most tickled when I see LA actors playing in movies set in the Northeast. You know a lot of Northern residents are shy of the sun. They don’t like coming out in the gamma rays. If you look closely when J. Roberts or Bill Hurt walk the streets of New York in a movie, they walk chest up to the Sun. Every northern person knows you don’t walk that way north of the Mason-Dixon Line! Hunch over and shuffle your feet, and do it quickly. What!

What else? Oh yeah, I thought the cultural divide for our great country is traditionally north to south, not east-middle-west. Personally I would like to hear more Jeno-Letterman jokes about people from Michigan, and Wisconsin -- Lubbock and Tuscon, Gary Indiana, and say Flint, MI. for example: Click on this cute joke about farmers in Illinois>>

Besides all that, it’s time to annex Mexico. Then we would have more of the two coasts and less middle. But that is a new topic. Expre'sate! >>pd

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It turns out if I don't include all these actors' names, no one will read my postings, and all will miss my humor-ain't.

I retrieved all these images this morning from google images searches, and forgot to copy/paste the addresses. So bite me.