ExiledInIllinois

Sorry to stray from OTopic. But there is a Lake & River cruise. Air & Boat show is coming up... Outside of Seattle, they are processing the most vessels... 3 days of Air & Boat, they will process 5,000 individual vessels. Gets pretty crazy, crowded. I really should make peace with @BringBackFergy & @Cripple Creek and score them some cruise tickets! But anyway... To stay on topic. Hard NOT to say the U.S. craziness is spilling into Canada. It's spilling everywhere through out the world.

When the construction crew drove the piling accidentally through the river wall during the early 1990s (1991?)... The water flooded a lot of the service tunnels and basements of skyscrapers. They at the harbor controlling works were full closed Us, 20 miles away were running 40 feet of dam... Full open... To attempt to just keep the shipping canal deep enough.

Lake tour, river or both? Incredible the Lake is now 5 higher than it was 10 years ago. A foot higher than when I started in 1991.

Oh... The head of the eDNA tech at Notre Dame that sold his flawed tech to the Feds in 2009 when his Michigan funding was running out is now at Cornell. I bet @BringBackFergy knows him! After a decade of studying, they don't even use the technology that much... Too many real world vectors, false positives. The last decade, all they do is shock and net. But they can't find Asian carp up here! Because there is none up here. They just shock the other fish and release. They pulled 100,000 pounds out in 2011, no Asian carp. Again... More power to the Rednecks... It's been 25 years and they are finally getting to shocking, cleaning up their mess they started. It started down there in Arkansas, Kentucky back in the 1990s.

LoL... Why? There are no Asian carp up here. NEWSFLASH: The whole debate is to stop them from spreading from Kentucky to the Lakes. It's their problem down there... Better them then us. It was the Redneck catfish farms down there where they first brought Asian carp in to clean the aquafarms during 1970s. They escaped during the 1990s floods. Kentucky needs to solve the own problems. People are really misinformed. Myself... It's all just a big old government boondoggle. They move they, they'll move. Kentucky wants to shock, let them shock. Since 2010 they have found 2. Count them 2 Asian carp. Both silver carp and both SHOCKED and FWIW, by the same government fisherman (I shi... You NOT, same guy). Once in 2011 & once in 2018. Both fish were studied and determined that they didn't spend much time up here... Months if best. What did they do? Take a helicopter here. Of course they were planted. Can anybody say: "False Flag" = more $$$$$$$ funding. They have been shocking up here for 15 years & they found two planted fish? By the same guy. That's stuff you don't hear in the "Carp are invading, sky is falling narrative." This is BIG $$$ if they can keep this narrative going. Good for Kentucky. They made their mess, now clean it up.

I would suggest to my fellow Americans that we work together to clean up the shithole sectors of our society. Or, it's like launching nuclear waste towards the sun. It's very likely the stuff blows back at you. Nobody will be immune.

By the Chi Harbor Lock... That was Al's Cave. A bee line right into city with bootlegging. There is a hidden dock there where the Feds would hide. Once the violence spread... The gun control came. What do you think the answer should be? Wild west? We are no where near that. If it happens, the whole country will face ramifications. Much different times now. The violence is kept isolated in the impoverished parts of town. Should we allow them to be legally armed or go in with martial law?

Exactly. It's NOT spilling on the Mag Mile, "good" parts of town. Very localized. Not in the burbs... Etc... Like be careful what people wish for, when it does spread and get truly random... The bee will be in the bonnet and We will all get stung. It happened before in 1920s/30s... Then 60 years later they started laxing up gun control in other jurisdictions. Weapons have no borders.

You know last time it was this bad in Chicago? Prohibition. Just be thankful it doesn't spread out onto Michigan Avenue. Last time 90 years, that happened, it led to gun control at the federal level. Be careful what you wish for.

I will give you that. So the "s" emphasis is on "sprouts", right? I will give you that. But what the hell the difference? Like one "L" or two in Brussels. You're caught red handed moving the goalposts. Fess up now before @Cripple Creek comes here and schools you! You know what the USACE motto is? ESSAYONS! That means "let us try" ...To eat our Brussels Sprouts in French.

That still sounds out like @ShadyBillsFansaid: Brussel sprouts. The "s" in sprouts is always present unlike the last "s" in Brussels. Quit while you're a head... What the hell are "prouts."

LMAO... The ye olde New England disappearing "A" and the magically appearing "R"... Priceless!!!

My daughter was in grade 4 and her teacher (older lady) said worsh/warsh. My daughter, being coached earlier in life by two sage and linguistic poets (wife & I ), honed right in on the accent. She said to her teacher: "You from Pittsburgh!" LoL... My daughter then threw me under the bus when the teacher took umbrage to a young kid subtly mocking her. ?

My neighbor from Cincinnati says wash as: Worsh I think that is a Pittsburgh-Ohio Valley thing. They need to be sent some Asian carp!!!

And that is exactly how it is said: Brussels sprouts Like @ShadyBillsFan said. If anything: Brussel sprouts Nobody, I repeat nobody says: prouts That's insane!!! Impossible to say. Taking the second "s" off is harder than saying both "esses."

You just lost all credibility with me there Buddy. NOT there was much to begin with.

Flood control, public health and sanitation ain't all about me.

Drawer (d-orrer). D-raw? Maybe down south?

Yes. Where do you come up with this stuff: "Brussells prouts.  Like everyone else in 'murica." Have you been training with @Turbosrrgood again. LoL... My Brussels sprouts have to be smothered in butter. And overcooked...

I prefer: Mr.Sunshine. I am your sunshine...

Yeah. It's harder saying "prouts." Sometimes @Gugny is really on The Moon. But, I think he's great! Yeah... Sometimes! Like lllinois. When I read it, will say Illi-noise. Just saying it, I will say it right. Can't visualize the word, will say it wrong. BTW, Illinois is the most mispronounced state. It's also the most misguided: Thnx Chicago!

No. But some do. They are dumb. I definitely say: Brussels Sprout. Two "s."

Yet! It is the most universal. English is in every boardroom. Because, it adopts, aquires, and evolves from other languages. It's always growing. IMO, that's NOT complicated. Kinda like a Southern Border with no wall. Just saying. Go English! "...The hardest to learn is the least complicated..." Okay... Fair enough. Still that pesky "woost" than. Where's the "r?"

Why do they lop the "shire" off of Worcestershire sauce? Why is Worcester pronounced "Wooster?" Good thing the damn Yankee New Englanders with their God awful accents aren't running this country, they can stick to their own shire. Now, Ohio... It's actually spelled Wooster... But Ohio has it's own set of problems, issues, & demons... Like @Cripple Creek, but we won't go there, he's just the tip of the iceberg. Why is it: Da Moines, Iowa and Dess Plaines, Illinois for Des Moines & Des Plaines? Hervé Villechaize never went to Illinois?