I was taught that "one hundred one" is more correct than "one hundred and one" but they both mean 101.

One hundred and one can't be 100.1. It's unclear.

Yeah. I don't see how you could omit the "point" here. I mean, it might make more sense that "ten one" is 10.1, but it's still wrong.

If we were talking about the freeway, I would put a the in front of it too.

Angeleno.

There is a bunch of BofA billboards at transit stops all over SF right now, talking about how you can check your bank account while you're "waiting for the MUNI" or "the BART". ::tears hair::

It's so annoying there's even an article in the Chronicle about it.

The BofA ads here say you can bank while in line for the taco truck. Huh.

Chicagoans tend to throw "the" before grocery store names, as well as making the store names possessive. So, instead of "Jewel," we go to "the Jewel's." It's a thing.

We call local highways by their honorary names instead of the numbers, so instead of "94," it's "the Edens," which makes traffic reports difficult for nonresidents to interpret. Traffic reporters never mention highway numbers--it's always "the Kennedy is 53 minutes from O'Hare to the Hubbard tunnel; the Tri-State is 22 minutes from Lake Cook to Dempster; the Jane Adams is clear."

For lunch style protein, back in the day when my kids wouldn't eat sandwiches, I'd send jerky or a hunk of summer sausage. You need to be careful because of the sodium but both are high in protein, easy to pack and are particularly good for kids who generally aren't hungry at lunch.

We call local highways by their honorary names instead of the numbers, so instead of "94," it's "the Edens," which makes traffic reports difficult for nonresidents to interpret.

I still don't know what highways the honorary names correspond to. But then I generally don't listen to traffic reports.

Who among you thinks "one hundred and one" means 100.1?

o.0?

Chicagoans tend to throw "the" before grocery store names, as well as making the store names possessive. So, instead of "Jewel," we go to "the Jewel's." It's a thing.

Huh. Maybe that's where my MiL gets it from. Her mother's from Chicago, and she *was* born there (though raised in Texas).

Deep Lard Horizon: 250,000 gallons of beef fat spill in Houston Ship Channel

Over at Good.is: "Early Tuesday evening, approximately 250,000 gallons of beef fat spilled out of a shore-based storage tank owned by Jacob Stern & Sons, an agri-products company specializing in the resale of 'value-added oleochemicals.' Fifteen thousand gallons of the fat then found its way into the Houston Ship Channel through a storm drain."