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Rando, you're up! Deal us one...

Ouch. What a first half inning. Ouch.

Dear God...so happy you were fine. Say, how much does your company compensate the farmer for lost product?

I think I see maybe five shades of gray there...where's the extra gray hues? You're holding out on us...

I have worked with many families from all different cultural backgrounds and have noted laziness, slothfulness, and entitlement mentalities in various ethnic and cultural groups. As have I. However, I've also noticed a remarkable lack of sloth and entitlement mentality in many of these people. Because - shock of shocks - immigrants are people too! In which one finds - shock of shocks - the full spectrum of personality traits we real people have! Amazing, but true! And, on balance, I can say that I've met far, far, far more lazy natural-born citizens than I've met lazy immigrants. Like, I'm trying to think of a lazy, entitlement-minded immigrant I've known, and I can't come up with one...

Nice of you to illustrate exactly what you're condemning. Where on earth do you derive racism from? Dude read a post from someone decrying the lazy minorities, and assumed you were an uber-conservative...I don't think anything could be more clear. And yet you turned it into something racial, because, why? Because people who criticize you must be racist? Or some other reason? I honestly don't understand how your illogic flowed, but I can tell you that your race had nothing to do with his statement, as I read it.

^I agree with the part about folks who shun the entitlement mentality - but I suspect that most immigrants - in fact, most any group of people are exactly that. Maybe I'm too much Rousseau and too little Hobbes, but I suspect the folks one sees are the ones milking the system - the folks one doesn't see are the ones supporting it. Questions announce themselves, but answers bury themselves - it's the same thing with problems and solutions. I'd take a massive influx of Hispanics, or Asians, or Africans, or any group, any day. Folks with the initiative to get here are predisposed to be exactly the kind of folks you're talking about...

Almost the same photo - same crash, at least! Posted over here: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=2885.msg34381#msg34381

Bing bing bing...we have a winner! We lived in this house for two years, prior to the traffic light being installed: UCPlanner, you're up!

My wife and I need to blow vacation time (I know, what an awful position to be in!) - we've got tons of time we haven't used (both work at the same company, both for almost 10 years, and have spent money on projects at in our home, not on vacations...) So we're planning a road trip...visiting my extended family in rural Pennsylvania, then touring Gettysburg (you can reserve private tour guides there now - used to be first come-first served...those people are truly amazing), then staying with a friend in NYC for a couple days. All of that is pretty much taken care of. Then we have one more stop - we're thought we'd drive to Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon, stay the night, then start driving back Friday evening. I really want to see Constitution Hall and the Liberty Bell, but other than that, I have no idea what to see or do, or where to stay. So, anyone have any suggestions for us? Obviously, we'd love to arrive, park the car, and not see it again until we left on Friday...but we'd rather not spend truckloads of cash...

I didn't want to make it too easy, but perhaps I erred on the side of too difficult...I'm sure everyone knows the intersection - it's on a bus route, after all, and it's a major bus route. But this perspective isn't common, so I thought it might be a good mix. But let me give another shot as a hint...same location, just from the first floor instead of the bedroom window...had to pick a poor picture so it blocked out any dead giveaways (like the road sign, for instance!)

For some reason, I have loads of comments this week! I'm just a chatty Cathy, I guess... - This College Hill place is a real treasure - glad we aren't losing it: - Very cool about Hazelwood...it's not far from where I work, so I've explored the neighborhood a number of times, and had no idea what it was, or why it was there... - This Bond Hill place looks like it use to be three stories, but then it sank: - The Evanston item: Er...if you lived there, wouldn't you prefer that they shut down the open air drug market at Hewitt and Fairfield first, and maybe worry about 38 in a 25 second? - Regarding 4273 Williamson Place in Northside - what a fantastic "before" picture! - "Watching a property being reclaimed by the earth...." That is hilarious... - And another treasure - wow... - Thank you thank you thank you for these - as always, they excessively appreciated!!!

Once again, it seems deceptive to me to compare the C's in this...well, maybe Cincinnati and Cleveland, since they have similar areas, but Columbus has annexed so much of what would be suburban-type areas in Cleveland, that definitely impacts their numbers. For example, Parma is considered separately from Cleveland here - now, correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression is that the Parma-equivalents in Columbus would be part of Columbus...so if you add Parma's numbers into Cleveland's, that drops it to 1 in 53. Now, how many other Parma-like areas would be added to Cleveland's numbers if it were 210 square miles rather than 77 or 78? No idea...but I don't know that these figures really speak to the likelyhood of you getting your car stolen in either city.

I missed this comment from C-Dawg earlier: ...you've never had Purple Trillium, I guess? Because a) it ain't cheap, and b) it's fantastic. All of Burnet Ridge's lines are very tasty...if you only want to spend $6 on a bottle of red wine, you'll get inconsistent results, but you ought not to judge the whole frickin' state's industry by that...

Gorgeous...just wonderful!

Wow - that's super cool... Is the bridge in the background of this shot the Brooklyn Bridge?

^Yeah, I wasn't even a good student, and I still had time for just about nothing...

Alrighty, another one...completely different feel after all these hot/moist days...just gotta name the intersection!

I didn't go out special to take that shot - surely you've got one or two on your hard drive somewhere...

Indeed...East Walnut Hills, just south of DeSales Corner...it's the Krug building, across from Schulhoff on Woodburn...your turn!

Not in that actual building, though, right?

Inspired by this thread idea of Mr. Good Day's (in other words, idea stolen outright!), here's a thread for guessing where Cincinnati shots are taken from...rather than a big list, I thought I'd do a single photo, then let the winner pick the next one - kinda like the Google Aerial guessing game... If this should live in some other board, please feel free to move it at will! So entry #1:

Wow, very, very nice... Clever effect here, cute composition:

Out of fear of being LAME, I'll post... Last night, my favorite food was mushroom risotto...tonight, it was blackened lamb chops and garlic mashed potatoes...tomorrow, it'll be whatever Issue430 and I whip up for dinner...in the end, I have simple tastes!

More miles of shoreline than any Ohio city, that sounds right...than any Great Lakes city, I could buy - I'd wonder how it wasn't Chicago, but I could buy it...but I'd need to see figures before I'd believe this for the US, and especially for worldwide.