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Tuesday, Oct 6, 2015 - Posted by Rich Miller

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  1. - Abe the Babe - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:23 am:

    “They don’t make’em like they used to…for better or worse”


  2. - Wensicia - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:27 am:

    The caption is in the picture. How appropriate.

    “CARNIVAL”


  3. - VanillaMan - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:29 am:

    Shoe Carnival sold me lifts that were comfy and amazing! They reminded me of my favorite ballet slippers.


  4. - VanillaMan - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:31 am:

    You look skeptical, but I’m not b*ll-*****ing you! Those things made me as giddy as a little German girl - imitation leopard!


  5. - VanillaMan - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:32 am:

    They cradled my feet like angel wings!


  6. - VanillaMan - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:32 am:

    I know you wear them when no one’s around - UGGS!


  7. - VanillaMan - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:33 am:

    We tax shoes based upon how many toes each foot has. That’s a tax savings for cloven foot beasts like me!


  8. - chi - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:33 am:

    Rep. Burke does his best Silvio Dante impression.


  9. - chi - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:34 am:

    Ed, what parish is this guy from again?


  10. - My FiNgErS HuRt - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:34 am:

    This Shoe Carnival is bound to stop our gun violence!


  11. - Team Sleep - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:35 am:

    “It may have taken two decades, lots of graft and about ten EPA permits, but we finally have a Shoe Carnival! 50% off Nikes for the next 14 minutes!”


  12. - Sprangfield - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:36 am:

    So a priest, an Irishman, and a Jew walk into a shoe carnival…


  13. - From the 'Dale to HP - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:37 am:

    “Only, what, 15 months till he’s gone, right Ed?”


  14. - Boone's is Back - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:41 am:

    “To quote Julius Caesar, ‘I would rather be first in a village than second in Rome.’”


  15. - AC - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:41 am:

    Rahm, having no words he was comfortable using in front of the priest was forced to use shadow puppets.


  16. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:42 am:

    “So… The customer… hands me back the sandwich, like this, and says… “There seems to be a finger in this..”


  17. - X-prof - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:42 am:

    M: Stick around Father, I’ll need confession if I have to sit through much more of this.


  18. - VanillaMan - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:43 am:

    These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ -
    Nancy Sinatra, enhanced by VanillaMan

    I’ll keep saying you got something for me
    Something you call governing but its a mess!
    You’ve been a’messin’ where you shouldn’t ‘ve been a’messin’
    And now I’m gonna get this off my chest
    Well, these boots are made for walking, and that’s just what they’ll do
    One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you

    You keep lyin’ when you oughta be truthin’
    He’s keep losing when he oughta not bet
    You keep samin’ when you oughta be a’changin’
    Turnarounds alright, but we ain’t Kentucky yet
    These boots are made for walking, and that’s just what they’ll do
    One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you

    You keep playing where you should have been paying
    And you keep thinking that you’ll never get burnt (HAH)
    Well, we elected a man with brand new box of matches (YEAH)
    And Rauner doesn’t have time to learn
    These boots are made for walking, and that’s just what they’ll do
    One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you!


  19. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:43 am:

    “Hey. Hey! Yeah you. You think you can give a better $&@#% speech?”


  20. - Jocko - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:47 am:

    (MJM to Burke) “Rahm’s getting a little carried away with these ‘open meetings’, dontcha think?”


  21. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:52 am:

    Hey Goldberg toss me that grass bowl


  22. - Quizzical - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:54 am:

    Dan Burke: Will you stop telling my brother how great he is? He already knows. I’m ready for one of those boot glasses full of champagne.


  23. - Keyrock - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:55 am:

    Rahm bows to his masters.


  24. - Bogey Golfer - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 10:05 am:

    “Let us pray…how am I doin’ Padre?”


  25. - Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 10:06 am:

    “I forgot the giant scissors to cut the ribbon, so I’m just going to karate chop it.”


  26. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 10:07 am:

    The shoe fits.


  27. - Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 10:10 am:

    Rahm: “Almighty Father…”

    Madigan: “You talking to me?”

    Priest: “I better step back. The lightning’s coming any second.”


  28. - Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 10:12 am:

    Madigan: “C’mon, Rahm. I never saw an apple that big.”

    Rahm: “It’s true. That winesap was as big as a punkin’!”


  29. - Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 10:14 am:

    “And now, Mr. Speaker, you can get red Crocs to match your necktie.”


  30. - Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 10:16 am:

    Guy behind RM: (What a job! $50 K a year just to haul around the Mayor’s lectern and soap box.)


  31. - Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 10:21 am:

    Priest: (I feel like Diogenes in this crowd.)


  32. - Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 10:24 am:

    RM: “I invited the Governor, but he said he had to go rollerblading today.”

    MM: “What’s that?”


  33. - 47th Ward - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 10:26 am:

    Carnival my tuckus. The City Council is a freakin’ circus.


  34. - 47th Ward - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 10:27 am:

    Dan Burke thinking, “Did he just say tuckus?”


  35. - Anon. - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 10:27 am:

    And I said, “Officer Obie, I don’t think I can pick up the garbage with these handcuffs on.”


  36. - 47th Ward - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 10:29 am:

    I got Bruce freakin Rauner and the Civic Committee over there, and over here I got all of these guys. Everybody wants a piece of me.


  37. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 10:31 am:

    You get three Irishmen together and you have a fifth


  38. - 47th Ward - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 10:39 am:

    What I am saying is, we have now what we have always needed, real partnership with the government.


  39. - Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 10:41 am:

    Rahm: “So I said to Pope Francis, ‘What? Chicago is chopped liver?’”

    Madigan: “Yeah! He coulda got some white wingtips here.”


  40. - A Jack - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 10:47 am:

    The Mayor holds the huge pile of cash that the Governor’s business reforms have generated.


  41. - 300 - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 10:54 am:

    Dan Burke internal monologue… ‘Another 10-15 years and they’ll let me have a chair, I’m sure of it!’


  42. - Anon - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 11:08 am:

    “Hard at work, hardly working.”


  43. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 11:44 am:

    Give us your daily bread


  44. - DuPage Don - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 11:44 am:

    A priest, an Irish pol and the spouse of an IL Supreme Court Justice walk into a Shoe Carnival….


  45. - Steve - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 12:02 pm:

    Ed Burke : “Mike, remember when Rahm was a little kid and we told everyone to use his father.”

    Mike Madigan : Yes, they grow up so fast.”


  46. - Wordslinger - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 12:10 pm:

    “…. and then the governor said,’see which hand fills up first.”


  47. - Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 12:25 pm:

    Rahm: “And if you’ve got a brogan here and a slip-on here, I say, why can’t these two walk together?”

    Madigan: (What the heck is he talking about?)


  48. - Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 12:29 pm:

    Madigan: (I wish he’d speed it up. I’m going to miss ‘Days of Our Lives.’)


  49. - Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 12:30 pm:

    Priest: (When I make monsignor, I won’t have to come to this kind of stuff any more. Yeah, that’s the ticket.)


  50. - Jake From Elwood - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 1:16 pm:

    All of these politicians showed up at a ribbon cutting for a lame shoestore. That’s sad.


  51. - Jake From Elwood - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 1:17 pm:

    To the caption: “They sent in the clowns”


  52. - Slippin' Jimmy - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 1:44 pm:

    So, I told Speaker Madigan, ” Look, now that I’m 6′ 3′’ tall, I’m going to Springfield and whack a few (Banned Word) guys around to get this budget thing straightened out. (Banned Word) Straight, Mike!


  53. - pool boy - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 1:46 pm:

    I thought they had elephants at a carnival.


  54. - Arthur Andersen - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 1:50 pm:

    MJM (The little fellow couldn’t see over the podium without standing on two shoeboxes)
    EMB ( Those shoeboxes look pretty solid-wonder if they’re fulla dough?)


  55. - Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 2:08 pm:

    Rahm: “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your grass bowls.”


  56. - Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 2:10 pm:

    Priest: “He colored that Chicago city seal all by himself.”

    MJM: “Sure, easy if you’ve got the 72-crayon box.”

    Burke: “Hey, what gives? I’ve only got 48 crayons.”


  57. - Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 2:20 pm:

    Rahm: “Folks, at the back of the crowd, look, it’s my close personal friend Don Rickles. Don, come up here and take a few jabs at the Speaker. Catch that look of delight on Mike’s face! He’s just dying to hear from you.”


  58. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 2:48 pm:

    Games,rides,and freek shows


  59. - Republicrat - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 2:52 pm:

    Dean O’Banion, Bugs Moran, Hymie Weiss, Hinky Dink…ahh forget it.


  60. - pool boy - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 2:57 pm:

    Rahm,” Mike stand up”. Mike,” I am standing”. Rahm, “good, the Cubs are in, the Sox are out”.


  61. - A guy - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 3:44 pm:

    “Let us pray”

    Only the Catholics know when to sit and when to stand. Rahm is working his way into the part where he tries to get them to kneel. The priest is standing by to give last rites if they do.


  62. - Let'sMovetoNorthDakota - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 3:51 pm:

    Madigan and Burke: this duo is responsible for the mediocrity
    of the Cook County Judiciary. Chief Judge Evans cannot hide all the political hacks they put on the bench.


  63. - A guy - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 4:12 pm:

    When they try on shoes, it will show who’s toes are painted.


  64. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 5:59 pm:

    Music please where down to the last two contestants of musical chairs


  65. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 7:07 pm:

    And our next speaker from Polk high school,shoe salesman…


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