It’s Friday, so let’s lighten things up a little. Come up with a caption for this photo:

By the way, your comments about yesterday’s lightning strike were very popular at the Statehouse. Good job.

       

59 Comments - OneMan - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 7:59 am: The Father of the next democratic governor of Illinois shakes hands with the man who was the last democratic governor 8 years ago. or Speaker Madigan and the governor were able to agree that Alberto Culver makes the best hair-care products - TDP - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 7:59 am: The budget debate took a particular nasty turn yesterday when Blagojevich challenged Madigan to a thumb wrestling match to settle a construction bond dispute. - Bob Choda - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 8:00 am: Glad to see you made it. Did you find the place ok? (lightning strikes) - illinois insider - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 8:00 am: “south side, north side , one love ! “ - southernilrepub - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 8:02 am: (Madigan)Hey Rod you still realize that I’m the most powerful man in the state. (Blago) Yes Daddy!! - Anon - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 8:03 am: (Speaker): That’s my money! - Ill ind - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 8:04 am: So Rod, when are you planning your Presidential bid? I’m behind you 1000%,but need a heads up for my little girl. - DOWNSTATE - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 8:04 am: Mike you promise with a shake you won’t tell anyone I was the guy dressed as the gay chicken in the gay parade. - sheehaneil - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 8:05 am: (Madigan) Wow, you DO have little weasle eyes! - Gish - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 8:05 am: TDP nailed the quote in my opinion but I would like it to have been phrased thusly: “1, 2, 3, 4 … Let’s have a thumb war!” - VanillaMan - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 8:09 am: Howya doin’, little fella? Didn’t recognize you without your shoe lifts! - Anon - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 8:12 am: “If you can think of a better way to exchange long protein strands, I’d like to hear it!” -Hat tip to “The Simpsons” - TDP - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 8:15 am: Madigan: Welcome to my house. Make yourself comfortable…..but not too comfortable. - Goodbye Napoleon - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 8:18 am: “Governor, your timing is excellent. I’m almost finished with the budget.” - TrueBlueandThankful - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 8:19 am: Mr. Speaker. Governor. (B)How’s it goin’. (M)Let’s get this ball rolling! We are going to get this done, but not as much as the both of us would like. (B)The Right-Wingers are not going to disrupt this budget process, jut because “they” complain, haggle, blame, and don’t like the idea that we are fixing this state that they let turn into a “brownstowne” when they were in charge. (M)Karl Rove is the “brain of Bush,” and Judy, evidently wants a piece of his “brain” too. (B)The people of Illinois are smarter than the conservatives think. Heck, this state has had “enough” complaining, and excuse making from the likes of “Tom Delay.” These people who are complaining are the very same people who voted for “George Bush!” How much credibility do they have? If it weren’t for Bush giving all “Federal Taxes” away to the rich, we wouldn’t be in this mess that we inherited. Mr. Speaker, as I stated a few weeks ago, “If those folks who you live in a glass house want to throw rocks, we had better take them seriously and tell them people the truth. We are “for kids”, “for seniors”, “for veterans”, “and for the hard working people of this state.” The other side can keep up their chanting of “cant’t, can’t, can’t,” but the last thing I heard about can’t, is that “Can’t said on a fence post and whistled Dixie all day long.” - Jaded - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 8:23 am: Madigan: You’re late again! Blagojevich: You should try combing this hair sometime. Oh, by the way, everyone thinks you are going to f#@k me again this year. Could you do something about that? Madigan: I’ll see what I can do. (Sorry for the f-bomb Rich, but I thought one time was OK after yesterday’s Capitol Fax) - HonestAbe - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 8:24 am: “I was kidding, I’m totally f….ing with you.” [edited by moderator] - TDP - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 8:31 am: “Don Madigan, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your daughter’s wedding [pause] on the wedding day of your daughter’s wedding [pause]. And I hope that their first child is a masculine child.” - TrueBlueandThankful - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 8:35 am: Mr. Speaker, I keep tellin’ those folks on the right they need to quit hatin’ on me. Hate the game, not the Playa’. Pimpin aint easy! - Wumpus - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 8:37 am: It’s Rob, right? - anon - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 8:47 am: Welcome back, we kept the back bench warm for you. Don’t mind the horse head. - WTF! - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 8:55 am: Governor Tristano er… Blagojevich - Lovie's Leather - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 8:55 am: Rod: What’s with the tissue box? Madigan: When we don’t have a budget, it gets a little boring…. [The recreational use of the tissues is pure speculation….] - Former MC - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 9:00 am: Speaker welcomes Governor to town and apologizes for not sending him the memo telling him that state government had temporarily moved to Springfield. - Chicagograssroots - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 9:03 am: Madigan: Where is the button for my squirting lapel? Blago: One good tug and I bet I could sommersault him out of there. - Common Sense in Illinois - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 9:03 am: Hey sailor, wanna F***? - TrueBlueandThankful - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 9:04 am: Greetings brother, greetings to you brother; but, who’s your daddy? I am a FOB (friend of Bill). Me too brother, but who’s yo’ daddy? - lightning Rod - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 9:17 am: Hey Mike, I knew you were powerful, but I didn’t think anyone could get Miller to drop the F-bomb! Think I should buy a blog ad? - Anon - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 9:18 am: R: Sorry I’m late, but I had to take care of the constituents. M: Yeah, it’s hard out there for a pimp. - Anonymous - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 9:41 am: Congratulations, our party has driven every good job out of Illinois except federal prosecutor. - Team Sleep - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 9:44 am: “Yes, Rod, you may have your snack and cartoons. No backtalking or I’ll take away your hair care products. Bad Rod, bad!” - Team Sleep - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 9:45 am: OR: “Wipe that smirk off your face, Rod. No one can have that fake of a smile that often.” - Pat Hickey - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 9:51 am: This is a tie. Grown Ups wear them. Alright, let go now. - Prodigal Twins Fan - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 10:04 am: It’s an ad for antibacterial gel. - Shelbyville - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 10:10 am: The governor: “Congratulations on your new restaurant.” - Bluefish - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 10:13 am: A thought bubble above Madigan’s head: “Just need to pull him a little bit closer so I can slap him upside the head with my free hand.” - ThePiper - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 10:33 am: Have we met? - Tired of the Rod, Vote Republican - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 11:04 am: My names Madigan, you must be a new guy I haven’t seen you around here before - Minion - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 11:36 am: Madigan: (with that thing he does with his forehead) I am trying to give you another term as governor. I hope you will see the wisdom of that plan. - Colt 45 - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 11:37 am: “Michael, why are the drapes open?” - zatoichi - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 11:47 am: How’d this high school kid get this close? - the Patriot - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 12:02 pm: take your pick which one, “you had me at hello” - Anonymous - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 12:07 pm: All hail to the great King Madigan!! - the Patriot - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 12:12 pm: Madigan as he grabs his stomach, “that balanced budget bit in your last address was a hoot.” - Reddbyrd - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 12:18 pm: GRod: “Hey Mike can you believe those GOPs( as in DOPES) wasted 10K on robocalls into safe districts” Madigan:” Like I keep telling you, they are best reason you’ll get reelected.” - ET - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 12:26 pm: The Cubs still suck - Papa Legba - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 12:59 pm: Lemme pull ya a little closer. No closer. I got a present for ya under my coat. (Speaker whips out a mini Cubs bat and smacks GRod upside the head. That’s for hosing the party in just three years, and for making it tougher for Lisa since you tarnished the parties good name.) - 47th Ward - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 1:27 pm: “Apology accepted Governor, just don’t let it happen again. Now go back home. I’ll call you when I’m finished with the budget.” - 4% - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 2:19 pm: Be careful or I will F@$K you. - Barnaby - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 2:40 pm: “I hear the Federal Prisons serve a mean Salisbury Steak”. - B Hicks - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 2:47 pm: Hi, I’m Eric Stratton, damn glad to meet you. Downstate: please, gay comments about our candidate? Are you serious? - scoot - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 3:07 pm: Madigan to Rod: You really do have weasel eyes.. - Walking Wounded - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 4:00 pm: “Go ahead, Rod, pull my finger” (what, no one thought of that, yet?) - The Conservative - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 4:27 pm: The check is in the mail Mike - dumb o'l country boy - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 4:57 pm: “Speaker can you believe that Topinka Lady said I had weasel eyes…..Mike…..Is that a good thing, do you think the campaign needs to do a poll…I could get a quick face lift you know.” “Shut up stupid and set down, you know I don’t allow you in Springfield very often…and thats why!!!!” - Gregor Samsa - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 5:00 pm: “I wish I knew how to quit you!” - Worried Farmer - Friday, Apr 7, 06 @ 10:08 pm: “I promise you Governor. My daughter Lisa will be in contact with your people.” “Mike, I just hope she is easier on my people than what Pete has been.” “I think I need to put a line item for wire sweeps in the budget.” - Ex-Newfie - Saturday, Apr 8, 06 @ 5:35 am: “Thanks for the hand up, Your Grace. It’s hard to lift this mop, plus the ton of bullsh-t on my back without a little help.” - Anon - Saturday, Apr 8, 06 @ 8:27 am: I can’t believe I missed fun w/ caption, by far my favorite, but here we go: Madigan: I know it was you Fredo, i mean Rod… Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.