natininja

You could say vodka-orange juice and I'm sure that would work. :)

What about being criminally idiotic?

Vodka with cranberry or orange juice might be a good go-to drink. (With OJ it's a screwdriver, with cranberry it's a vodka-cranberry.) Also gin and tonic is a simple option.

If you guys don't like beer or wine, what about liquor/mixed drinks?

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The "good" demo is the poolhouse in Washington Park. It is a sign of progress on the park's renovation, so it's good! The other demo, I believe, is the one on McMicken, which you can find info on in the Cincinnati preservation thread. Also info here: http://victorianantiquitiesanddesign.blogspot.com/2010/12/preservationist-battle-to-save-otr.html

^ You're over-analyzing.

Yeah, I was too harsh on Elvis. I admit it. There's definitely some Justin Bieber in there, though. For the record, I don't actually know any Justin Bieber music.

Good job, CDM! I thought possibly Germany, but there are so many midsized cities I just didn't bother looking. I've even been to Hamburg, but couldn't pick it out! Edit: Also, good job, Scrabble!

I will be very surprised if this is the case!

Michael Jackson was basically perfection for what he was. He could dance amazingly. He could sing really well. He made amazing music videos, which was a new thing. He was just chock full of talent like no one else could be. The Beatles changed the world. Especially music, but they were also a powerful cultural force. They didn't change anything drastically, save for music, but they definitely made an impact. They also performed the amazing feat of being simultaneously the most popular and most innovative artists around. That alone is amazing. Elvis was the Justin Bieber of the day. Nirvana...well, they definitely altered the rock landscape. They're significant, but overrated. I wouldn't say Kurt's legacy was killing hair metal, but if that were true I would hold him in higher regard. He did put a certain amount of testosterone back into the pop-rock scene, which new wave had sapped out and hair metal had turned into a self-parody. I think hair metal killed itself when everyone finally realized it should have been aborted in the womb.

I think the HS question serves as a quick way to get to know what parts of the city someone might be familiar with. Cities are very different places, phenomenologically, depending on where you hang out. I guess you could ask what bars someone (used to) likes to go to, or restaurants or something, but HS cuts to the chase pretty quickly -- provided it is known the person being asked actually grew up in the city. I don't really see anything wrong with it, it's akin to asking "what neighborhood are you from?", but it is more likely to have a determinate answer since people move around.

I don't think it's either of those. It shouldn't be hard to find the spot in the photo on Google Maps, if you can guess the right city. It has a fork in a canal or small river, with no roads immediately along the sides of the water, but one crossing through the near the point of the "island". This definitely looks like it's taken in a city center, I'm pretty sure it's European, and it's not one of the enormous capitals. So the unique scene should be able to be spotted pretty easily in a satellite or map view of a small city center. I don't think the architecture looks Scandinavian or Dutch.

Got me. I just spent too much time looking, though! It's not Venice, and I'm quite sure it's not in Holland or Flanders. I don't think it's Birmingham or St. Petersburg. Color me stumped!

roflmaoying gfi, get your butt in here so I can feel better talking about you to your face.

Maybe Delta will have second thoughts about all their downsizing now.

Well, other than the quality of the roads, maintenance of the property, etc. Always amazes me when driving through Cleveland into Lakewood or Shaker that the roads suddenly have less potholes, have been snow plowed, and businesses are held to zoning standards. I touched on school districts, but these are other issues. I think a lot of what makes some of these places stand out is precisely the fact they are separate from the cities they border.

Now that I think about it, there would be some good candidates for Cincy. North College Hill (which runs seamlessly from College Hill, a city neighborhood) would make a lot of sense. Norwood and St. Bernard+Elmwood Place are bubbles surrounded completely by the city. Cheviot, Wyoming, Lockland, Amberley Village, Madeira...maybe Cincinnati and Cleveland are very close in physical size, and Cleveland of course had a much greater peak population. So it makes sense Cleveland would have a larger footprint of urbanized areas. Cincinnati also has the funky geography thing going on, which led to some weird development patterns. If Cincinnati were able to annex from Ludlow to Dayton in KY (including Covington, Newport, Bellevue), St. Bernard, Norwood, Elmwood Place, and North College Hill, that would be pretty legit and sensible. In fact, it would make Cincinnati a more coherent whole by breaking down some pretty arbitrary boundaries.

I don't know about Cleveland's suburbs, but most of Cincinnati's bordering burbs would not even be desirable to annex. The urban NKY burbs being the obvious exceptions. Wyoming is nice and quaint (with a walkable center), but that's largely because there's a municipal barrier between it and Hartwell. Who wants their city to just eat up sprawl? Besides, err, Columbus.

^ But they have to take account of behavioral changes that would result from their actions, implicitly. If they make projections using the assumption that raising the gas tax will not affect people's behavior, then those projections are suspect. Since the success of their proposal is measured over decades, such a faulty extrapolation would become very pronounced over time. Keith was saying their goals are short-term, but that's not my understanding of the bill. If Keith is correct, then transportation policy need not be part of their consideration. Otherwise, it should be something they take into account, in terms of fiscal and behavioral effects which feed off each other.

^ You have another one-star review on Amazon. Ouch.

Exactly...most media is headquartered in NYC and LA, so it's coastal centric. Why do you think that is only opinion???

^ Where is your headquarters?

Audio needz moar "yaoming".

Did they touch your junk?