Well in New Jersey, the Parkway really is a "park" way during rush hour...and if we drove on the driveway, we'd probably go through our house! :animal36

PS. Your furbaby is very cute! :D

LOL!!!! This cracks me up! :D

Why is Chicago called the Windy City?

Only since it's been 21 hours without an answer...
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[Q] From John Branch: “I’ve heard three explanations for the term Windy City as an epithet for Chicago, Illinois: the common assumption that it refers to the winds gusting through the city (understandable to anyone who’s been there); the boasting of Chicagoans to the rest of America about the glories of their rebuilt city after the Great Fire; and the blustering of Chicago politicians to the city’s inhabitants. My guess is that the first could easily be invention after the fact, while the last is too local to account for the term’s familiarity elsewhere. What do your sources tell you?”

[A] It is indeed often said that the word windy in the name refers to the long-winded and boastful speech of Chicago politicians.

The story you will commonly find is that it dates to shortly before the great World’s Columbian Exhibition of 1893. Chicago was putting forward its claim with great verve and bombast. This really got up the nose of people in New York, which was competing with Chicago to host the exhibition. Animosity became so bad that Charles A Dana, editor of the New York Sun, wrote an editorial telling New Yorkers to pay no attention to the “nonsensical claims of that windy city. Its people could not hold a world’s fair even if they won it”. The history books tell us that Chicago did win it and did hold it (and even made a profit from it). Books also tell us that the nickname of Windy City dates from that editorial.

This story is wrong. There are several recorded instances of Chicago being called the Windy City before Mr Dana put his pen to paper. That we now have what looks like the real story is owed, as so often with American expressions, to Barry Popik, part-time parking judge and expert amateur word sleuth.

For example, he found this in the Chicago Tribune for 11 September 1886: “The name of ‘Windy City,’ which is sometimes used by village papers in New York and Michigan to designate Chicago, is intended as a tribute to the refreshing lake breezes of the great summer resort of the West, but is an awkward and rather ill-chosen expression and is doubtless misunderstood”.

It has only recently been discovered that the term appears even earlier, in a headline on the front page of the Cleveland Gazette for 19 September 1885, reporting several items of news from Chicago, particularly a judicial decision: “From the Windy City: Judge Foote’s Civil Right decision”. For the nickname to be well enough known in Cleveland that it appeared in a headline without explanation indicates that it was by 1885 getting to be an established term.

Mr Popik has suggested that the name actually originated in a scheme by the Chicago Tribune about that date to promote the city as a summer resort, using the cool breeze off the lake as the basis of its attraction. Before then, Chicago was usually nicknamed Garden City (its Latin motto was and is Urbs in Horto, “city in a garden”). There seems to have been a shift from the old name to the new in the middle 1880s.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-win1.htm

Wow! I know a Chicagoan who will take exception to that! She told me it was most definitely the first definition.

FE, I'm changing your name to FM, Fact Man.

Yeah, yeah, if people keep asking, I'm never gonna get any work done!

Some ?s for FastEddie
 

Okay FastEddie. Got some funny ones for you. Found these off http://www.jokes2go.com/lists/list139.html

Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?

Why is it considered necessary to nail down the lid of a coffin?

Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"?


:questione

I feel like Dr. Frankenstein!
 

It's ALIVE! I used a machine and put some letters together and built a thing called a "Thread" (FastEddie - How do you build a thread with letters?)

Now this "Thread" is alive and making more letters on it's own. It also appears to have posessed some of our friends turning them into Joker, Fact Man, Wasteland, Sassy Gal and more!

With all the trash can talk I'm expecting Oscar the Grouch to show up soon!

Ooh, I like this one!!!!

If you mated a Bulldog with a s**tsu would you get a Bullsh**?

:lol tears

This one too!!
If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?

If a man is walking in a forest and no woman is there to hear him is he still wrong?

Okay, I'm gonna answer this one myself...

YES!!

:animal36

And we've all probably heard this one:

Did you ever notice that if you blow in a dog's face it goes mad,
yet when you take him on a car ride he sticks his head straight out the window? :jump28ib:

Good one! What about a s**tsu and a Poodle? You get a Sh**Poo! :eek:

That's too much poop for me!! I have enough with Baby!! I picked up poop 6 times today! :eek:

Your answer is CORRECT!
You win a NEW CAR!!!!

Yeah!!! I'd like the Cadillac Escalade in Pearl White please with leather seats and all the amenities!!! :D

What in the world are you feeding her????? Exlax?

You would think, right? I think she likes seeing me flush her poop down the toilet. She stands on her hind legs and watches the poop go bye bye. Aren't we so proud? :lol tears

Because some people can only think out loud, and they don't want the radio to bother them while thinking...

If you do not nail the lids in a traditional coffin (read: cheap), the weight of the dirt will make the lid crack and your beloved will be buried in dirt inside their coffin.

This I looked up on Google, I guess historical definition has more than one definition of practice, the most common definition being exercise or rehearse...

Definitions of practice on the Web:
a customary way of operation or behavior; "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern"
exercise: systematic training by multiple repetitions; "practice makes perfect"
drill: learn by repetition; "We drilled French verbs every day"; "Pianists practice scales"
translating an idea into action; "a hard theory to put into practice"; "differences between theory and praxis of communism"
avail oneself to; "apply a principle"; "practice a religion"; "use care when going down the stairs"; "use your common sense"; "practice non-violent resistance"
the exercise of a profession; "the practice of the law"; "I took over his practice when he retired"
carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions; "practice law"
knowledge of how something is usually done; "it is not the local practice to wear shorts to dinner"
rehearse: engage in a rehearsal (of)

http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Great job! People love seeing YOUR thread continue and grow. You can do a lot of things with computers, a geek I know once told me that! ;)

It's actually called... A Shih-Poo (though I think Tzudle would have been a neat name)

Shih-Tzu / Poodle cross

The Shih-Poo is not a pure bred dog. It is a cross between the Shih-Tzu and the Poodle. The best way to determine the temperament of a mixed breed is to look up all breeds in the cross and know you can get any combination of any of the characteristics found in either breed. This hybrid cross is recognized by the American Canine Hybrid Club.

http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/shihpoo.htm

Yoda actually likes it when I blow in his face so sadly, I don't know the answer to this one... He wants more or tries to bite the air. He also likes putting his face out a window, but we don't let him do that too much. :)

Baby bites the air too!!! And the hair dryer air. I wonder why? :questione

You have an answer for everything, hugh? Hugh? :D Well, now I have to come up with a question you don't know the answer to. :) Let me think...

I got one fasteddie!!! If you don't get this one, we might call you sloweddie!
 

I GOT ONE!!! And I came up with it on my own! :D

If puppies eat their own poop, why are they so picky with what food they will eat? Aren't they essentially saying, "Mommy/Daddy, I don't want this food, it tastes like s**t!"

:lol tears

Hahahah..... I think you missed a not, as in "Mommy/Daddy, I don't want this food, it DOES NOT tastes like poo!" since they like to eat their own poop. ;)

You never know, maybe Yorkies are just super smart and know there is some kind of nutritional value in poop somehow! :D

More nutrition in poop than food? Hey, maybe I should...never mind. :eek:

My mom has one and thats what they call it...

My question: If a dog is alone in a forrest and he is barking.... is he still a bad dog?

No, but he's got a bad owner for letting him alone in a scary, dark forest with lions and tigers and bears.

(And yeah, I'm one of those who answered that Yorkies are high-maintenance!)

Do penguins have knees?
Why doesn't the super glue stick to the inside of the tube?

Actually she's thinking..."what a waste of a good meal" :eek: