Jordan St.John

I think a good name for a scholarly protagonist without a driver's license in a futuristic dystopian car culture that everyone who looks down on would be Perry Pathetic.

Also, it's not the Dacia Sandero!

I love this. Geddy is our mascot. The watcher of our skies. He puts in a shift behind home plate and that's why they call him the working man.

You watch. Barger is going to Molitor his ass off.

I will. Sort of a Berry Rydell guy myself.

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Pattern Recognition it shall be.

You can. You just might not survive it.

Mate, would you go back through your posts a bit?

There were a few that didn't sound quite like you. There might a hacker.

It strikes me it was something about jeans. I believe you fashionable, but I don't believe you'd post about it.

Yesterday, a Honda Civic passed me on the street with the license plate "eurydice."

Of course, when I looked back, it was gone.

Don't get me wrong, man. I love Chicago, and I get the city pride, but O'Hare is a whole different thing. I had more missed connections than Craigslist.

Yeah, but if you're from another country, and you have to transfer between terminals unexpectedly, they are going to check your documents.

And God knows what else. Not worth the risk. I'm not about being arrested and deported to guatemala.

I feel like inconveniencing and then wasting the time of your military leadership for a badly planned speech is possibly going to have unintended results.

Buddy, I'm not even flying through Chicago as a connection.

Did you ever want to learn about beer and get an internationally recognized certification from an established institution?

Why not think about the WSET Award in Beer Level 2?

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Classes start Thursday and George Brown's classes are the world's most affordable.

I was in Montreal for the weekend.

It felt really different and has always had a more relaxed pace of life, but I mean in a sort of "less enshittified" sort of way.

I am beginning to wonder whether the algorithm is only really effective in English. There didn't seem to be as much feedback.

Jsj banter, alone in house edition:

*now six hours away from jean talon market geographically*

Jsj: i shoulda bought that fresh thyme. Man, did that smell terrific.

Attaway.

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

Neutron walks into a bar. Bartender says, for you no charge.

Personally, I think a ham and cheese is a pretty pedestrian scramble.

Yeah. Comfortable place and pretty good quality. The new one isn't the same and a lot of the stuff in the annex is just sad by comparison.

I think between that and the fact that American beer was seen as exotic and therefore more desirable, you end up in a situation where you've got some of the best English style beer in the world and because it's north of Bloor, people are like, "don't forget about The Granite."

Top level praise.

By the time we got to OCB Week and Toronto Beer Week around 2010, the thing was kicking right off.

Eventually, I think the small cadre of enthusiasts sort of exhausted themselves. Seems to be about 2016.

Been going through a local forum for beer enthusiasts and I don't think anyone realized in 2014 how COOL craft beer was in Toronto at the time.

There were like 10 cask festivals a year. Every one of those had new one offs. It was affordable!

Oh well.

Well, now that you explain it properly, I feel silly for ever doubting.

Well. We're 46 minutes from the rapture, I guess.

Unless it doesn't happen.

In which case we'll get a new estimate next week.

Stick that in your Hart Schaffner Marx, Bobby.

JSJ Banter, Elevator edition

JSJ: That's a small dog. Is that a Golden/Spaniel cross?

Dog Guy: Exactly. A Golden Cocker cross.

JSJ: Sort of a Cockadoodle.

DG: Really?

JSJ: No, but I did know a drag queen named Annie Cockledoo.

DG: Really?

JSJ: Not really.

*exits, dragging laundry bag.*

well don't fret about it.