I got it bad

by aisle209 on Sep 9, 2007 9:23 AM CDT

on Sunday morning.

My wife and kids were all laughing at me last night at 10:00 when I was out there on a ladder putting the W up.

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That's cool...

...that also looks like a very nice house.

Santo Forever!

by BeerCub on Sep 9, 2007 10:27 AM CDT reply actions

Bet you

hate when the Cubs are on a west coast swing. Even harder to hang W at midnight.

"You can't take life to seriously, you don't get out of it alive"

by wild bill on Sep 9, 2007 12:13 PM CDT reply actions

My friend

My friend did that and someone wrote a nasty message on it thinking she was pro Bush.

This is going to be the fall and winter of our content in Chicago.

by puckishcubsfan on Sep 9, 2007 1:00 PM CDT reply actions

Do you have an "L" flag too?

n/t

by Fraggin Judge on Sep 9, 2007 4:32 PM CDT reply actions

I just hope...

...you're a responsible W flag flyer. I live in Arlington Heights, and there are several homeowners in my neighborhood that choose to fly the flag. Obviously, as a Cub fan, I support their efforts. But I'm also very often frustrated at the failure of many of them to fly the flag responsibly.

Either they forget to raise it when the Cubs do win or they forget to take it down and the flag is still flying after a Cubs loss -- a particularly cruel spectacle.

And sometimes this latter mistake can have an additional sadistic result. A few weeks ago, one of the Cubs weekday afternoon games was delayed by rain and I was unable to hear the game's conclusion before I left work. So I'm riding my bike home from the train station wondering what happened, and I cruise past one of these houses and -- hey, there's the W flag! The Cubs must have won, right?!

WRONG! The homeowner had left it up from the day before, when the Cubs really had won. The letdown when I got home and finally learned the truth was doubly harsh.

Carlos Marmol, you complete me.

by daver on Sep 10, 2007 9:48 AM CDT reply actions

My advice to you is...

Begin drinking heavily.

"Have Keith Moreland drop a routine fly. Give everybody two bags of peanuts and a frosty malt, And I'll be ready to die." -Steve Goodman

by danimal15 on Sep 10, 2007 1:00 PM CDT reply actions

Nice

if I were you, I would invest in a flag pole of some sort. :-)

Here are some early spring pics at my house of our good friend the W flag:

http://images.kodakgallery.com/photos3449/1/68/27/86/29/5/529862768108_0_ALB.jpg

http://images.kodakgallery.com/photos3449/1/68/27/48/34/9/934482768108_0_ALB.jpg

I have a ceremony of sorts for hanging it. I hug it lovingly, being sure it doesn't touch the ground, on my way out to the porch. I give it a little kiss then let it fly! I can't imagine purchasing a L flag(do they even make such a cursed thing? and if so who buys it???), but I fly my W flag religiously.

fly your W flag Cubs fans!

by love the ivy on Sep 11, 2007 2:11 AM CDT reply actions

Can you do something about this?

Got this error message:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /photos3449/1/68/27/48/34/9/934482768108_0_ALB.jpg on this server.

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al Yellon on Sep 11, 2007 6:40 AM CDT up reply actions

I can access both photos perfectly, Al.

by Fraggin Judge on Sep 11, 2007 8:59 AM CDT up reply actions

I get the same error message

Carlos Marmol, you complete me.

by daver on Sep 11, 2007 9:18 AM CDT up reply actions

I'm "forbidden" too.

by CubFaninNY on Sep 11, 2007 10:14 AM CDT up reply actions

How about these?

http://images.kodakgallery.com/photos3992/2/32/47/40/70/2/270404732208_0_ALB.jpg

http://images.kodakgallery.com/photos3992/2/32/47/10/95/9/995104732208_0_ALB.jpg

If it doesn't work, not sure how to change them to something different easily.

fly your W flag Cubs fans!

by love the ivy on Sep 11, 2007 3:48 PM CDT up reply actions

"Methinks?"

"That 2003 season, that was the first year ... that we saw the ivy change color. We had never been here that late in October." Ole Lyse, Wrigley usher.

by aisle209 on Sep 12, 2007 7:04 AM CDT up reply actions