My wife and I like Chicago over New York - easier to get around and just as many great restaurants. You should visit Twin Anchors - one of the oldest eateries in Chicago - a neighborhood restaurant/tavern:
http://www.twinanchorsribs.com/. Do a review for us and see if you can think of something comparable here.

These will not be the kinds of questions you might find in Mathematical Methods for Management Decisions. As Ms Gailor says, with this crew we can even handle MMMD. OMG probably has an old paper, and VoR and especially hmpstd ..., well you get the idea.

"Those people on your blog are unbelievable. You could ask them whether it's better to make a giraffe or an owl out of a paper clip and they would argue about it for hours. Someone would come up with some obscure knowledge to prove his point, and someone else would bring up his Uncle Larry's experience with paper clip giraffes."

I wasn't like that, either, before I went to B-school.

You had me at Mathematical Methods for Management Decisions...

When I saw A Beautiful Mind my first criticism was "Not enough math".

This would make your point even better: Just post a picture. First, no one has ever done. Second it would show your Svenjolly-like sway over your minions.

It would also be a great psychological experiment to see how people react. Plate of broccoli? Maybe someone responds to the plate, not the broccoli. Or the excessive eye makeup on the waitress. Or the man being beaten in the background with a mallet. Oh please please do it.

BTW I was startled to see Owl Meat Gusto in Wednesday's Sun paper. When I read it to Bourbon Girl over the phone I realized that it exactly like something Seinfeld use to do. The shame! "What's the deal with peel-n-eat shrimp....."

You finally posted something normal enough that I dared to put it in the print edition. :-) EL

Gailor, what kind of methods are in your Mathematical Methods for Management Decisions class?

Given the state of the economy, I'm going to guess Magic Eightball and some kind of dice game where you smoke crack.

(You see, you didn't expect that that would be what interested anyone, did?)

A paper clip giraffe would obviously be better. Duh.

Clearly, the answer is Giraffe.

I wasn't like that, either, before I went to B-school.

Nor I.

If you've got a Sharpie, you could make the Zebra stripes, so that would be so much more interesting than some ol' long necked ungulate (i heart wikipedia!).

Check out the book on Billy Beane
G.M. of the Oakland A's

RtSO: I believe that I did write a paper on a topic similar to that in one of my courses for my MBA in HR Management. Lord knows, I wrote close to a quarter million words, what with a paper each week for each six-week course. I'll have to go through my collection of discs.

I promise to maintain my tradition of lurking and thinking about writing a response only to get distracted and forget about the whole thing.

P Rob--if you have an MBA in HR--why are you playing the piano?

What's the question?

Since this thread is so far from food, I thought I would add something (and it has some tie-in to Ms Gailor's MBA studies.) I've come up with a partial solution to the current and future Wall Street problems:

The Mom Test

In order to be legally sold, any financial instrument must pass The Mom Test.

Here's how it will work:

A panel of 12 70+ year-old women will be created (the Moms.) The only disqualifying condition: a member may not have a degree in finance or have worked (last 20 years) in the field of finance/securities/banking (including but not limited to brokerage houses.)

Before any financial instrument may be sold, a first-year (under 30) broker must explain the instrument, risks and rewards, in 3 minutes or less.

90% of the panel members (11) must be able to correctly explain that instrument, the next day (no home study, just recall.)

Any instrument that fails this test is illegal and may not be sold.

Okay, RtSO--we'll make you Treasury Secretary in the next administration!

Get off our porch you damned kids! And take your fancy pants financial instruments with you! We have Christmas Club accounts. Where is my gosh-darned big spoon? Harold, is that you? Are you back from KO-rea? Twenty three skidoo!

OMG's talk of the Owlgonquin Roundtable made me think of Dorothy Parker, so here's one of m favorite quotes from her:

[On the most beautiful words in the English language] The ones I like...are "cheque" and "enclosed."

Who's Dorothy Parker?

My favorite Dorothy Parker, when asked to use horticulture in a sentence.......

"You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think"

Who's Dorothy Parker?

She's the one who said, "Men don't make passes at girls who wear glas...

Oooops...never mind. It will just lead us off into another Sarah Palin discussion.

Owlie, you're playing with us. You know exactly who DP is. Parker quotes:

• I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.

• It serves me right for keeping all my eggs in one bastard.

• Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

I hope it's not that cynical at the Owlgonquin Roundtable. How does one join?

Hue, I love that quotation, too, but nobody else ever laughs at it. I just get strange looks. Glad to find someone else who thinks it's funny!

Hue, I love that quotation, too, but nobody else ever laughs at it. I just get strange looks. Glad to find someone else who thinks it's funny!

Count me in -- it's one of my favorites.

Another memorable Dorothy Parker quote:

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.

Hue & KristinB, it's my favorite DP quote, too, but hmpstd's offering is also memorable.

Hue, you beat me to it...that's my favorite Dorothy Parker quote, too. Wasn't it she who described either Kate Hepburn's or Tallulah Bankhead's acting in a stage play as running the gamut of emotions from A to B?

And then there was DP as "Constant Reader" reviewing the Winnie-the-Pooh books with "Tonstant Weader frowed up."

But somehow I imagine that the Algonquin Roundtable was more about the booze than the food. Maybe we should take this over to Sam's blog--naw, they wouldn't get it.

DP was quite a wit!
Is there anyone out there today who has the same "ability", I remember
Al Capp(of Lil Abner) had this ability as well as Oscar Levant, both no longer with us...

Hue, Al Capp today probably wouldn't pass the PC test--underage girls popping out of their skimpy tops, making fun of geezers for their impairments ... wait a minute, isn't that a new reality show?

Dottie, DP was writting about Katherine Hepburn, in one of her early movies.

Mathematical Methods for Management Decisions...this class, it uses irrational numbers only?

Dahlink, one of Al Capp's inventions which always got a chuckle from me was the student protest group Students Wildly Indignent about Nearly Everything: "We're SWINE - and proud of it!" Deliberately not PC.

Another story I liked was how Pappy Yokum started the Stock Market Crash. Seems that he had gone up to New York to earn some money and was working as a window washer on Wall Street. On that fateful day, he was high on one of the buildings when his rusty water bucket came apart. He yelled "The bottom's dropped out!" and next thing you know pandemonium ensues and stock brokers are jumping out of windows and falling past him.

RiE, I'll bet the younger generation here have absolutely no idea what we are talking about, but it does bring back memories! I think Mammy Yokum was my personal favorite, and of course the smoos.

Hope some of you old foggies had the chance to see Mr. Capp when he would appear on the "Tonight Show"
as well as Oscar Levant...
Withering commentary on folks and fashion...on top of it all Oscar Levant was a "chain smoking neurotic", who
"brushed his teeth then sharpened his tongue"