Gutter's 10 Questions of the Day for the rest of the week.

[Deleted User 75]

Over/under on how long it took someone to individually place each chopped onion piece on the hotdogs for that picture?

[jhawks99]

Pair of tweezers, 15 seconds.

[DCHawk1]

Hot dogs are gross.

[pdub]

CR banged your mom.

[PhDhawk]

Pwhittemore is gross.

[pdub]

I'm pdub.

[PhDhawk]

I'm gross.

[TDub]

Theres 144 pdubs? Crickey

[shindig]

I hate sweet relish or sweet pickles for that matter. Disgusting. But ketchup on a hot dog is fine with me.

[DrPepper]

Can I get a ruling on corndogs? Those must have ketchup, right?

[pdub]

I don't like putting ketchup on the actual corndog if I can help it.
I take a bite and then ideally have ketchup and mustard for dipping.

[jhawks99]

Can I get a ruling on corndogs? Those must have ketchup, right?

I truly despise ketchup on anything. On rare occasion I eat a corndog I like it with spicy mustard. I'm not sure you need approval to put anything on your corndog. Eat what you like. I won't judge.

I do cringe a little when my wife dumps ketchup all over my roasted potatoes with olive oil, garlic and rosemary from the garden though.

[DrPepper]

Come on. Soon we will have great swaths of stores dedicated to small-batch artisanal craft ketchups. It will be bigger than hot sauces, bbq sauces, and beer. My sister-in-law makes her own and it is GOOD stuff.

[jhawks99]

More for you.

[Deleted User 183]

These are NOT "general knowledge" questions - and I believe that none of the questions bandalum asked are geographically specific (as to where someone lives being able to answer them correctly or not) but these are going to be questions that I feel range from easy to difficult for NATIVE Chicagoans to answer correctly - and those who are not native Chicagoans would have a more difficult time answering. I am actually going to rate on a scale of 1-10 how difficult I feel the questions are for NATIVE Chicagoans and non-Chicagoans.
If you don't know the answers please truthfully answer that you don't know. There should be no shame in not knowing.

1) (1 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 5.825 for non-Chicagoans)
What is name of the lake that borders eastern Chicago?

2) (6.25 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 9.825 for non-Chicagoans)
What is the Viagra Triangle?

3) (1.25 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 9 for non-Chicagoans)
If I said I took the L and LSD today what would that mean?

4) (1.5 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 8.75 for non-Chicagoans)
What was the former name of the Willis Tower?

5) (3.75 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 9.275 for non-Chicagoans)
When talking about a "Chicago Style" hot dog - what is 1 ingredient/topping you should NEVER put on it?

6) (6 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 9.5 for non-Chicagoans)
It's winter time and you claim "dibs". What does that mean / what are you doing?

7) (7.825 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 9.975 for non-Chicagoans)
You are near Downtown and/or the Loop and sometimes you can smell a somewhat pleasant odor. What it is - and I am not referring to Garrets Pop Corn?

8) (5.825 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 8.75 for non-Chicagoans)
People assume Chicago is nicknamed the "Windy City" because it's windy. What was the original origin of the nickname the Windy City?

9) (7.275 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 9.275 for non-chicagoans)
What is Cloud Gate?

10) (6.925 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 9.75 for non-Chicagoans)
Name 3 towns/cities/suburbs that comprise the "North Shore".

My facetious answers......

1) Lake Chicago
2) The 3 Viagra pills that are bronzed in the shape of a triangle that are on display at the Museum of Science and Industry guest welcome desk.
3) I lost a game/contest and took acid.
4) Arnold Jackson Tower.

5) Vegemite
6) You walk in to a convince store, grab some Dibs, yell at the cashier, "I GOT DIBS", and run out off the store without paying for them. It's a Chicago thang.

7) Raw sewage from the Chicago River.
8) Because Chicago is the flatulence capital of the world.
9) The gate of clouds of air pollution that border Indiana and Chicago.
10) North, Shore, Chicago.

[3rdGenJayhawk]

So even though I’ve read some of the other answers I’ll try to be as truthful as I can.

1) (1 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 5.825 for non-Chicagoans)
What is name of the lake that borders eastern Chicago?

Michigan

2) (6.25 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 9.825 for non-Chicagoans)
What is the Viagra Triangle?

No idea

3) (1.25 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 9 for non-Chicagoans)
If I said I took the L and LSD today what would that mean?

L is elevated train. LSD is Lake Shore Drive.

4) (1.5 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 8.75 for non-Chicagoans)
What was the former name of the Willis Tower?

Best guess Sears Tower

5) (3.75 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 9.275 for non-Chicagoans)
When talking about a "Chicago Style" hot dog - what is 1 ingredient/topping you should NEVER put on it?

No idea.

6) (6 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 9.5 for non-Chicagoans)
It's winter time and you claim "dibs". What does that mean / what are you doing?

Dibs means “I claim it first”. Don’t know why it’s winter related.

7) (7.825 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 9.975 for non-Chicagoans)
You are near Downtown and/or the Loop and sometimes you can smell a somewhat pleasant odor. What it is - and I am not referring to Garrets Pop Corn?

No idea.

8) (5.825 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 8.75 for non-Chicagoans)
People assume Chicago is nicknamed the "Windy City" because it's windy. What was the original origin of the nickname the Windy City?

I think from the worlds fair. I Love that book Devil in the White City! If you haven’t read it I highly recommend. Along with issacs storm and Dead Wake, both by the same author.

9) (7.275 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 9.275 for non-chicagoans)
What is Cloud Gate?

Don’t know. Sears tower?

10) (6.925 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 9.75 for non-Chicagoans)
Name 3 towns/cities/suburbs that comprise the "North Shore".

Dearborn? But I know that’s in Michigan.

[Deleted User 183]

Being that it's 6:50pm on a Friday night I consider the work week over.

Correct answers are.....

1) (1 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 5.825 for non-Chicagoans)
What is name of the lake that borders eastern Chicago?

***** Michigan


2) (6.25 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 9.825 for non-Chicagoans)
What is the Viagra Triangle?

****** An area in the "Gold Coast" of Chicago which is basically located on and around Rush Street where middle aged and older fucknuts (men who are jagoffs) hang out and try to hit on usually much younger women.


3) (1.25 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 9 for non-Chicagoans)
If I said I took the L and LSD today what would that mean?

***********
L is as in Elevated - which is the train system - that is often underground - as well as over ground. Don't ask.
LSD as in Lake Shore Drive - which the Travel Channel describes as - Lake Shore Drive in Chicago is the prettiest extended stretch of urban parkway in America. It's bordered for most of its 15-plus miles by green space, beaches and Lake Michigan on the east and by a mix of parkland, skyscrapers and luxury apartments on the west. This expressway-with-some-stoplights is where Chicagoans bring new visitors who, until they get here, imagine the city as just another old, gray, concrete-and-steel metropolis in the Midwest. The best way to experience Lake Shore Drive is by driving south to north.

4) (1.5 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 8.75 for non-Chicagoans)
What was the former name of the Willis Tower?

****** The Sears Tower

5) (3.75 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 9.275 for non-Chicagoans)
When talking about a "Chicago Style" hot dog - what is 1 ingredient/topping you should NEVER put on it?

****** Multiple answers would be correct but I was looking for catsup/ketchup.
There are a couple places I have been to where if someone wants "everything" on their hot dog they say, "drag it through the garden". Dumb being that "everything" is easier to say and better understood.


6) (6 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 9.5 for non-Chicagoans)
It's winter time and you claim "dibs". What does that mean / what are you doing?

****** "Dibs" is indeed claiming the rights to something and in this case it's parking area on a street when it's snowing and people make the effort to shovel the snow away and then often put chairs or something else out on the street in front of their homes to save the spots.


7) (7.825 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 9.975 for non-Chicagoans)
You are near Downtown and/or the Loop and sometimes you can smell a somewhat pleasant odor. What it is - and I am not referring to Garrets Pop Corn?

****** That's right! Its the smell of chocolate which comes from the Blommer chocolate "factory" located at 600 West Kinzie Street.


8) (5.825 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 8.75 for non-Chicagoans)
People assume Chicago is nicknamed the "Windy City" because it's windy. What was the original origin of the nickname the Windy City?

***** A few acceptable answers being that I don't believe a single person can prove any single one of them for 100% certain. Most Chicagoans who believe they are in the know will tell you it referred to the politicians who were full of hot air / long winded.

9) (7.275 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 9.275 for non-chicagoans)
What is Cloud Gate?

******* Most Chicagoans only know of it as "The Bean".

From the cityofchigao.org web site - Cloud Gate is British artist Anish Kapoor's first public outdoor work installed in the United States.
The 110-ton elliptical sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel plates, which reflect Chicago’s famous skyline and the clouds above. A 12-foot-high arch provides a "gate" to the concave chamber beneath the sculpture, inviting visitors to touch its mirror-like surface and see their image reflected back from a variety of perspectives.
Inspired by liquid mercury, the sculpture is among the largest of its kind in the world, measuring 66-feet long by 33-feet high.


10) (6.925 for NATIVE Chicagoans and 9.75 for non-Chicagoans)
Name 3 towns/cities/suburbs that comprise the "North Shore".

******* I will accept in order from south to north..... Evanston, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Hubbard Woods (debatable), Glencoe, Highland Park, Ravinia (debatable), Lake Forest, and Lake Bluff.