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Originally Posted by pshrynk
Getting ready to go to Chicago to see the season opener of the Joffrey Ballet. That and shop ourselves into Holiday Coma at Macy's (actually Marshall Fields.)
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Good to see someone still remembers what it
should be called.
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Originally Posted by montsnmags
Did not understand any of that...except for "Chicago", which is, I believe, if memory serves, an active volcano in Goa. Odd place to go shopping, or open a season, which I believe might be the "wet" season there. But, you know, whatever refloats your boat.
Cheers,
Marc ("Macy" is the name of a Golden Retriever down the end of our street)
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All of this is correct except the Macy part; it's actually the pseudonym of a singer in the States.
Okay not really (again, except the Macy part); Chicago (the name comes from the indigenous Potawatomi word meaning "Hey! You can't do that!") is the 3rd-largest city in the States. It used to be 2nd-largest, but then we invented something called a "suburb" and a lot of people moved into them. It is the longtime home of American President Barack Obama and many of his friends, some of whom are now either in jail or under investigation. In the 1930s, Chicago became popular for being a center of organized crime; in this case, "crime" means "illegal stuff" and "organized" means "City Hall knew about it". Since then, local government kicked out the criminals and took their jobs, thus cutting out the middle-man. There are two seasons, winter and construction. The city is home to Sears Tower, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere; it was renamed by some idiots from an insurance company but most Chicagoans ignore the name change. Trump is building something here but a lot of us don't really care. Before being developed, the area was a large garlic field; we later became an exporter of some of the best pizza on the planet.
Seriously...I was born and raised there, and I have mostly wonderful memories of it; the art, the music, the architecture, the cultural diversity, the food--egads, the FOOD--check out this great city...quickly, before the local cronies ruin it for everyone.