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  • Totem
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    When Your Rooster Crows At the Break of Dawn...
    ....I'll be in Chicago bitches!. WooHooo, only 98 days until Showtime! Patch those sails and follow the trails!
  • KristineD
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    Divvy Bikes
    Has anyone mentioned these yet? http://www.divvybikes.com I haven't used them myself, yet, but I plan to. Divvy Bikes offer bike rentals with stations all over town. You buy a 24 hour pass for $7, that allows you pick up a bike at one place, ride it to where you want to go, and drop it off when you get there. For as many 30-minute trips in a day as you wish. So, for less than $25 bucks, you've got wheels for the entire weekend! From their web site: Divvy is a new bike sharing system featuring thousands of bikes at hundreds of stations from Andersonville to Hyde Park, available 24/7, 365 days a year. Each station has a touchscreen kiosk, station map, and a docking system that releases bikes using a member key or ride code. Sounds perfect for getting around town in July.
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    Suite tickets are awesome. Use to run Suites at MSG NYC. Remember very pricey. Around $600 per plus. Have to say the best way to see any show or event. Peace out.........
  • tfonts
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    Re: California trip
    I had a hotel res at the Hilton in Santa Clara (literally adjacent to the parking lot of Levi's) but cancelled it yesterday. To have seen the look on my wife's face when I suggested a second Dead sojourn to compliment Chicago, well, let's just say a man knows when and when not to bark up a tree... I have a personal relationship with a Sr. Executive of a very large company HQ'ed down the street from the stadium. His company has a super-box there and we've already been in communication re the show and getting me some tickets. I think it seats 20. Absolutely zero guarantees, but if the shows are announced, I do believe I can/should be able to proxy some tix to our SD family here. They won't be comped, but guarantee won't be scalped. If anyone has a potential interest, please drop me an e-mail (not a PM here) with the subject line "Santa Clara tickets." This would classify as a "miracle" but hey now, it's still worth a shot :-)
  • ASL
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    Okay, Red...
    45 minutes - we could probably all crawl that far! I really hope it happens for you guys out There. Would so love an excuse to go back, but the Midwest beckons...
  • geomeister
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    The West Coast Chapter of the Sunshine Daydreamers
    Has a nice ring to it...having their first Chapter meeting!
  • seeing red
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    Re: California trip
    Yes ASL, I'll be treking to the California shows. Though it's only a 45 minute trek for me :) Now to hope that there are any shows :)
  • mkav
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    cali too?
    Sadly, not me. Can't swing the time nor $ for both.
  • ASL
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    Okay, Can I Just Ask?
    I know this is a bizarre question since most of us are STILL Chicago orphans...but is anyone considering a trek out to Cali at the end of June if the "official" announcement is made??? Just wondering since there is so much time, effort, positive energy, etc., put into our Chicago soiree...that's where I want to be...but I'm just thinking...might be a fun trip, too? I mean, when is going to California ever a bad thing? Totally asking too much, right?
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    California Zephyr Travel Advisory-July 2015
    Notice is hereby given that this train may be subject to stopping in a small desert town and boarding two east bound tye-dyed passengers. If you should witness this, it is your responsibilty to report it immediately to the Monkey and the Engineer. This advisory is lifted for all destinations east of Chicago.
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What you talking about Willis? I say.....Damn son....quite the accomplishment....
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Just demonstrating my nonpareil focus! ;-)
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did someone say Chocolate ??
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I'm chock full of confection!
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'o nuts? OK, now I really do have to go find some chocolate. Tough road -- there is danger in learning to appreciate fine chocolate, sorta like good wine. Impossible to go back to the plebian, when you get used to good stuff.
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The dark stuff (w/out nuts) is my fancy, but it's not the most patrician chocolate. Good for the heart, though. OK, I gotta get back to work before I end up separated from my gainful employment. Peace out, Daydreamers!
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.....this is some mindful communication here..... Back to the mines for me..... Work blows kids.....
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I know....
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OMG THE BEST !!! They make a killer chocolate chip macadamia nut cookie too !! But the ultimate are the GS Thin Mints, out of the freezer, w/ a tall glass of milk - SEE YA LATER !!! :-)
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just has some with cold milk...mmmm
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Thursday here, sun is rising in the east... Hot coffee and cocoa ready... Today marks the anniversary of the first of the 3 back to back to back Dead shows in 1977....my personal faves of that Spring run.... Boston Cornell and Buffalo.... Amazing playing and great memories.... Have a great day...make someone happy...
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Cannot put any cookie above the noble Oreo. Good morning to all. Up and running to enjoy my midweek day off. I broke my phone yesterday, so much gone, how can I have become so reliant on these fragile things? 7 days till Dear Jerry! Pails and snails..
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Last night and I brought home some peanut butter and birthday cake Oreos. O-r-e-o. Yum. Especially the birthday cake flavor me thinks. Did you know those cookies are vegan?! You don't have to feel so bad for those folks. Good morning! Have a great day!! Okay goodnight.
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Literally impossible come think of it cause the mighty Oreo is the cat's meow as well. And Milano's and a ton of others... God bless the cookie :-) And God bless the Grateful Dead !! G'mornin peeps - where's our boy and his rails, pails and sails???
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Reese's Peanut Butter Oreos.... mmmmmmmbop bop .....bop bop
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Rise and Shine Sunshine Daydreamers. Patch those sails and shine those rails! Only 7 weeks, 2 days, and 11 hours until the boys in stage at Santa's sisters. Only 8 weeks, 1 days, and 12 hours until the big shebang in Chicago. mmm bop, bop one - mmm, bop, bop - two - slurp coffee, mmm, bop, bop, three
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I had to stop at three. I'll try four tomorrow.
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A bit early to bop til you drop...isn't it?
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...sounds like breakfast!! OMG, could those be even half as good as they sound? I'm a traditionalist when it comes to Oreos, but I'm on the hunt! Have a lovely day, all!
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I like the half golden and half chocolate oreos. Happy Thursday everyone, hope it turns out to be a grand one.
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We don't need no stinking tradition....Reese's Oreos on the shopping list for the pic a nic.... It's like a tastebud orgasm... Bestest Oreo ever....add some French vanilla ice cream... Have a great day Katwoman.... Morning Mr Mayor...
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Break out your brooms. Cleaning up tonight. 2030 local.
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GO HAWKS !! Gotta admit, the best sweater in the business.
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Pat Kane for Stanley Cup MVP perhaps..... If you guys win the cup, Pat comes home with it to West Seneca NY for us to touch it..... Go Hawks.... Have some coffee and Reeses Oreo's your tastebuds with thank you..... Oooohhhhhhhyeahhhhhhhhjhjayyyahhhhhhhh! Damn those Oreos are tasty... Bringing them to the pic a nic....
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Never heard of Reeses Oreos and I'm a big fan of both Reeses and Oreos... re: Hawks - If your Cup is full may it be again.
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was that Donna after an Oreo?
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Mad Swan, I broke my phone yesterday as well. The screen at least. Oh, well, such is life when you forget that picking up that piece of litter means that gravity will induce a separation between phone and pocket. One man gathers what another man spills. Errrrg, sounds like you and Reese's Oreo need to get a room! You know this space is getting hot. I never knew tastebuds had such vast capabilities.... Have a grate day everyone!
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That was me doing my best Donna while eating an Oreo ..... In 2 part harmony..... ;-) Morning Loblaw....
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...my bet is Lord Stanley's chalice will grace at least one of the shows. Watching it show up all over town was one of the fun-nest parts of the Hawks win. Hey, does anyone remember the year of the giant inflatable purple dinosaur? What about the "unbroken paper chain" that got passed from one side of the Horizon to the other?
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Buff is the same...Hawks won, Kane brought it to Buffalo for a week, at baseball games, malls, bars....what an incredible experience....as our Sabres blow for lack of a more descriptive term, hockey wise I live vicariously thru our homeboy #88.....
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Cookies are in my top 5 desert island foods. I thought it would be fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies (maybe oatmeal chocolate chip - hold the raisins please), but I might include ALL cookies so that ALL Oreo flavors and maybe some Pepperidge Farm might be included. Kristine - YES. Any kind of peanut-butter related Oreo sounds like breakfast. My tutu (grandmother in Hawaii) and I had been known from time to time to enjoy a nice moist piece of chocolate cake for breakfast there in paradise. All - there exist both peanut butter AND Reeses peanut butter Oreos. The Reese ones are among the limited edition, such as are the Red Velvet Cake ones... peanut butter > Reese peanut butter ones. Birthday cake flavor > peanut butter. Red Velvet = birthday cake (maybe birthday cake slightly better than Red Velvet). Klang I will have to try the half and halfsies. I have not tried the mint or the (lemon?) yellow ones yet. Anyone? Okay. I have some strange strains of OCD, but you still love me. xo Stellz
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Good morning....glad you chimed in on Oreos ....while none are indeed considered bad ....skip the mint n lemon....red velvet however float my boat....can't speak on the black n white though...not much of a risk taker here...
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But of course we love you, Stella - what a post....FANTASTIC !!
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all cookies, all the time! I'll take the homemade oatmeal-pecan-chocolate chip with dried sour cherries for $250, Alex! I dreamed of Dastardly Mash again last night.
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And just coming off if dinner and ready for dessert, the oatmeal-pecan CC cookie, dare ai say ala mode with a little Bryers vanilla bean is a home run !! So is it "PEE-can?" Or "Pa-Cahn?" Here in the south of course, home of Pecan Pie, it's "PEE-CAN" :-)
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peh-khans, if you please. And, double what the recipe calls for.
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Y'all have done it to me now. I couldn't just get the coffee from Starbucks this afternoon. No, I felt strangely compelled to see if there were any CHOCOLATE COOKIE treats. Found one--they call it "flourless" but it tasted just fine to me. They looked at me funny when I tried to order a Reese's Oreo cookie, though.
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Please ....No more peeing in cans, on Kane's...#88 might get upset....and the Hawks need to sweep... or on Cain's....nuff said there... But especially not on my Reese's Oreo's..... this is our bus...lets preserve its integrity....and cleanliness.... Watch out where the huskies go...and don't you eat that Yellow Snow..... don't know bout you guys but 81 degrees in da Buff at 7:45 pm est..... This space is getting hot....
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I have one seat, Section 311, Row 8, seat 7 (see seat geek for virtual view) for the 4th of July in Chicago. Interested in a floor ticket or two seats at Santa Clara for Saturday the 27th lytweaver at gmail
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....cuz I can party late...... Another week has gone by.... Summer weather has hit Buffalo.... Coffee is on.... Here comes the weekend..... How bout them Hawks.... Oh yeah....some new tangled fancy schmancy website.... Thanks Zeke, Lisa and the crew responsible.... Getting too old for this stuff.... #88 got another goal and an assist! Brooms away....getting ready to move on! Hey Totes....wake up....
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What happen to our daily count down missing it but it is just just 49 days 21 hours till I hit the friendly skies for the golden coast , I might have to sneak some chocolate chips cookies on board for the late night cravings
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Cobwebs this morning. Make that coffee a double. Your hometown prodigy always brings it in the post season. Great game. Crazy finish.
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Bom-bom-bom, bom-bom I can now hear the distance drumming calling me home to FTW. 7 weeks 1 day, 10 hours until Santa Clara! 8 weeks, 0 days, and 11 hours to Chicago! The energy slowly builds....... Can't wait. Have a Grate weekend!
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Oh you crazy money-focused Deadheads you. Personally, I wouldn't have thought it. At least they're not bankers. Not that I have an opinion on that.