"Check, Please!" 10th Anniversary [and best guests ever]

WTTW is running a poll to select their guests for their 10th Anniversary season. They are asking viewers to select from some memorable guests from the past.

I would like to encourage everyone to vote for retired attorney, Fred "It's An Accomodation" Solomon.

You can vote here. You can click Fred's name to watch him review Karyn's raw restaurant and you can click here (select "watch the conversation" on the right) to watch his review of Myron & Phil's.

Best,
Michael

I vote for President Barack Obama to be a guest.

hoppy2468 wrote:I vote for President Barack Obama to be a guest.

Wouldn't that be too twee?

I vote for a televised debate between Obama and Fred.

Mike G wrote:I vote for a televised debate between Obama and Fred.

Moderated by the guy from Phoenix who knows his BBQ?

jesteinf wrote:

Mike G wrote:I vote for a televised debate between Obama and Fred.

Moderated by the guy from Phoenix who knows his BBQ?

FYI: those words were from a woman.

Regards,

Cathy2 wrote:

jesteinf wrote:

Mike G wrote:I vote for a televised debate between Obama and Fred.

Moderated by the guy from Phoenix who knows his BBQ?

FYI: those words were from a woman.

Regards,

Oops, right. Ok, she can do the honors.

eatchicago wrote:I would like to encourage everyone to vote for retired attorney, Fred "It's An Accomodation" Solomon.

Just went to vote and Voting is Closed.

I would have voted for Fred, I didn't see Double-Yum or she would have got my vote.

I would have gone with milquetoast "culinary urbanista" Juana Guzman (season 2) out of pity, since her now-closed Le Deux Gros received an outright horrid review from my erstwhile acquaintance Mr. Wu. That was in the heady days of the show where you could use words like "horrendous," "terrible," and "atrocious" and not worry about hurting the feelings of a fellow reviewer. I still think his head-wagging was a bit over the top, but it made for an entertaining episode.

Joe is my buddy too.
IIRC he had issues with the way he was treated.

On the 1/4/13 episode including the New England Seafood Company:

John Danza wrote:WTF is "amazeballs" anyway? She sounded like a complete airhead. I wonder where she's going to law school. How would you like to show up at a law firm really needing a lawyer and she walks into the room?

On the lobster roll, I've never experienced it being ice cold. However, there have been times when it needed more seasoning.

Collins Online English Dictionary: Amazeballs - an expression of enthusiastic approval.

According to the Dictionary of Most Annoying Words in the English Language, 2012 edition: “an exclamation inviting someone to hit you.” Added alongside YOLO, adorkable, mommy porn, and zombie apocalypse.

First definition example on UrbanDictionary: The fact that someone like Perez Hilton can make six figures by being an annoying douchebag is amazeballs.

The recipe I'm projecting at the moment is a couple-three Freddy's red-sauce-drenched beef and pork spheres, studded with Necco wafers and splashed with tequila. The possibilities and social media fun from this particular application of the term are already developing a life even faster than "I'm from X, so I know barbecue!"

Various people have claimed credit for creating the word, but it is generally recognized that its spread began when Perez Hilton began using it in 2009.

I don't know which word she used most "like" or "amazeballs".
I had never heard the later term, but I had my daughter there to translate for me.

I was also pretty surprised, not just by "Amazeballs" buy by the fact she felt compelled to use it TWICE!
Totally rad!

irisarbor wrote:I was also pretty surprised, not just by "Amazeballs" buy by the fact she felt compelled to use it TWICE!
Totally rad!

Uh...three times, and it was "Frickin' Amazeballs"

Amazeballs? Thats a new one. I would be so embarrassed to use this phrase especially on tv. Totally tubular, that is what I would use. Maybe not the same meaning.

By the way has any LTH forum posters ever been on Check Please! as a reviewer?

stevez wrote:

irisarbor wrote:I was also pretty surprised, not just by "Amazeballs" buy by the fact she felt compelled to use it TWICE!
Totally rad!

Uh...three times, and it was "Frickin' Amazeballs"

I thought I misheard her the first time, but my wife was in the room for #2 and confirmed: amazeballs. Damn entertaining. So entertaining in fact that I felt I had to comment here without much to add.

For those who haven't seen it yet. . . Frickin' Amazeballs NESC Review

toria wrote:Amazeballs? Thats a new one. I would be so embarrassed to use this phrase especially on tv. Totally tubular, that is what I would use. Maybe not the same meaning.

By the way has any LTH forum posters ever been on Check Please! as a reviewer?

Yes. See Check Please appearances

Check, Please! auditions on January 29

"Totally tubular" would be great. Please promise to use that phrase if you are ever on the show.

I can't promise. I probably would not have the nerve to use it. I would be obsessed with wondering how I looked on camera. And whether the other guests would trash my pick.