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Airwick
10-02-09, 10:06 AM
Chicago loses bid to host 2016 Olympics (http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics/story/10154098/Chicago-loses-in-bid-to-host-2016-Olympics)


1893 Chicago World's Fair

http://www.aneuroa.org/chicago/images/world.jpg

kache_98
10-02-09, 10:12 AM
Get the party started.
http://toursonline.org/wp-includes/images/rio_de%20janeiro.jpg
Airwick
10-02-09, 10:16 AM
Get the party started.

but we were on top of the world back in '33, '34..........

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3550/3380446273_599bfe1e7f.jpg

botto
10-02-09, 10:30 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/mihirbose/boserio.jpg
Airwick
10-02-09, 10:33 AM
The year was 1933, the city was Chicago......

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3518/3221807892_34823cfb4e.jpg

Interior of the GM exhibit building at the Century of Progress International Exposition. On-site assembly of Chevrolets in a gallery below ground level with balconies on both sides: Fisher Body line on the left; Chevrolet assembly line at right. The assembly line was powered by two huge Winton diesel engines designed by Charles F. Kettering.
trsidn
10-02-09, 10:34 AM
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away.....
Velo Vol
10-02-09, 10:35 AM
They don't have summer in Chicago, anyway.
Airwick
10-02-09, 10:37 AM
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away.....

Time is relative,....

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3459/3274915525_b497fd5ba1.jpg

Double-decker 'rocket car' crossing lagoon at Century of Progress International Exposition. 36 passengers at 40 cents each for a four-minute ride.
trsidn
10-02-09, 10:39 AM
That's what Einstien said.....
jsharr
10-02-09, 10:40 AM
YouTube - Blues Brothers - Sweet Home Chicago
Airwick
10-02-09, 10:41 AM
They don't have summer in Chicago, anyway.


That's what Einstien said.....

more importantly, Frank Sinatra.
mickey85
10-02-09, 10:54 AM
(sweet home chicago is from Robert Johnson, king of the DELTA blues...)

Chicago blues is completely different. Probably why they lost the bid - playing Delta blues to personify Chicago. Silliness.
patentcad
10-02-09, 11:02 AM
F the friggin Olympics.
bluevelo
10-02-09, 11:04 AM
The last Olympics to turn a profit was the 1984 LA games.

You spend billions - generally, a *lot* of it taxpayer money - to host the Olympics. Yes, you get new sports facilities out of it, but are sports facilities *really* the best investment(s) to make in a large city when we are moving into a century where brains are a lot more important than whether a sprinter is male or female?

Great news for Rio. South America has never hosted an Olympics, and Brazil is a country on the rise, and will likely by the late 21st or early 22nd be a major world player.
Mr IGH
10-02-09, 11:17 AM
First he gets pantsed by the North Koreans and the Iranians, then rejected by the Olympics, why don't they love him like we do?
bluevelo
10-02-09, 11:21 AM
First he gets pantsed by the North Koreans and the Iranians, then rejected by the Olympics, why don't they love him like we do?

I dunno, but $20 says this thread ends up in the Politics forum before the day is out.
Mr IGH
10-02-09, 11:26 AM
He and his wife personally lobbied the IOC members and then Chicago has The Lowest Vote Total. How can they dis-respect our president like that? Doesn't the IOC know he's here to make nice?
kenkayak
10-02-09, 11:27 AM
Im wid you Mr I G H /:troll:/Kenneth
Airwick
10-02-09, 11:29 AM
I dunno, but $20 says this thread ends up in the Politics forum before the day is out.


Time for a Jessica Biel photo............

http://www.hairstyles-haircuts.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/jessica-biel-updo.jpg
bluevelo
10-02-09, 11:31 AM
Time for a Jessica Biel photo............

Nah, Megan Fox.

http://www.horror-asylum.com/news/pics/sexy_megan_fox_jennifers_body_bloody.jpg
Airwick
10-02-09, 11:32 AM
Nah, Megan Fox.

incorrect
andr0id
10-02-09, 11:33 AM
IOC was probably just envious and angered by the fact that Chicago politicians are even more corrupt than they are.
jsharr
10-02-09, 11:36 AM
YouTube - Chicago- Saturday in the Park "Live" (1972)
RUOkie
10-02-09, 11:37 AM
How about this?

120511
Velo Vol
10-02-09, 11:38 AM
http://www.fansedge.com/Images/Product/35-79/35-79904-F.jpg
Airwick
10-02-09, 11:41 AM
now back to Chicago in 1933,..............

Chicago 1933
Airwick
10-02-09, 11:42 AM
http://www.fansedge.com/Images/Product/35-79/35-79904-F.jpg


Did you go to the Knoxville World's Fair in '82?
Velo Vol
10-02-09, 11:53 AM
Did you go to the Knoxville World's Fair in '82?

Yes.
Airwick
10-02-09, 11:55 AM
Did you go to the Knoxville World's Fair in '82?


Yes.

Cool,... I was at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair

1893
Velo Vol
10-02-09, 12:18 PM
http://www.ironornamentals.com/images/Worthless/world%27s-fair-buckleLG.jpg
kenkayak
10-02-09, 12:28 PM
WOW I want the job of that lady's rug:love:/Kenneth
Airwick
10-02-09, 12:47 PM
WOW I want the job of that lady's rug:love:/Kenneth

you're in luck, we have an opening.

http://pro.corbis.com/images/BE042393.jpg?size=67&uid=FE21B66A-8811-48A4-9F9B-0FD1B5C225B7