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124 Comments - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 1:37 pm: [And let’s not get too over the top or gross, please. You wouldn’t want to miss out on winning the prize, would you?] - David Starrett - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 1:39 pm: “…and his mother wears Army boots.” - Cal Skinner - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 1:39 pm: Move over. I’ll give you a nooggie. - Anon - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 1:41 pm: “I’ll bet this never happened to Edgar Bergen.” - gosox08 - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 1:42 pm: New product at the fair: Madigan on a stick. - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 1:43 pm: OK, I’ve deleted three so far. Don’t be gross. - Six Degrees of Separation - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 1:45 pm: “You know, it’s really time to see a doctor to get this tumor on my leg removed.” - Lefty Lefty - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 1:45 pm: Mr. Cleaver worries about the family finances while the Beaver dreams up his greatest money-making scheme ever. On the next “Leave it to Illinois.” - downstate GOP faithless - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 1:46 pm: i’ll take unpopular public officials for $200 alex - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 1:47 pm: “Mapes said he wouldn’t be here. He promised. Mapes is in big trouble.” - anon - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 1:48 pm: Just who’s idea was it to invite Hannah Montana to sing? - Princeville - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 1:49 pm: MJM thinking “We just can’t let him go anywhere without him promising somebody money…children should be seen but not heard…hmmph.” - Frank Booth - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 1:50 pm: MJM: “I knew there was a catch to the free Nike polo shirt.” - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 1:50 pm: “Hmmm… Should I kill the Lottery lease in committee again? Committee of the Whole? Full House? I just can’t decide.” - upstate - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 1:53 pm: “dum and dumber– you pick which one” - anon - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 1:53 pm: MJM-”I can’t believe Quinn missed the plane.” ROD-”Too bad Quinn had to miss this.” - David Starrett - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 1:58 pm: “…plus, I’m a homey and he’s not.” - long time reader, first time commenter - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 1:59 pm: side effects may include………. - Crystal Clear - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 1:59 pm: “What’s your name?” - Reality - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:00 pm: Blago = HAIRSPRAY MJM = HEIR PRAY (as in I pray Lisa will be the heir to this bozo) - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:03 pm: Last warning, people. I have to go to session soon, so if there’s any more gross stuff, or violent imagery, I’m gonna ban you and shut this down. My fault for posting this photo. I shoulda known better. - Ghost - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:03 pm: MJM: Dang’it, Blago promised these where the sweet Starbursts, not the sour ones! - Anon - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:04 pm: Try both shades of Just for Men: Concentrated-Power Medium Brown and Populist-Press-Conference Dark Brown. - Crystal Clear - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:05 pm: “Mike and I are homeboys, man. … There are times I consider myself the first Irish-American governor of Illinois.” - Illinois Boy - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:05 pm: Madigan thinking….I wish I was to home and this party was to hell…. - Commonsense in Illinois - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:06 pm: If I hold my breath just a bit longer… - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:06 pm: House Speaker Michael Madigan makes mental notes of all those applauding Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s State Fair address so he can tube their legislation. - A Citizen - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:07 pm: Those same three old jokes, over and over again. Emil, can’t you give him some new material? How long must I endure this? I know! I’ll just refuse to meet with him again . . . Ever! - Don't Worry, Be Happy - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:09 pm: My vote goes to Anon 1:41, who already used the line I’d picked out. My second choice is: MJM - “And on top of everything else I’ve had to put up with from this guy, now my thumb is stuck in his ear.” - Mr. Cub - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:10 pm: Madigan wins gold medal in clenched-teeth contest at Illinois State Fair. Blago finishes second but vows to “rock Springfield” next year. - Ghost - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:10 pm: My sock garter is slipping - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:12 pm: Two men. No lips. - cynically anonymous - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:13 pm: Rod: I love looking out at mirrored sunglasses! Now, I wonder what I can say or do that will make his head actually explode? - Anon - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:14 pm: The Speaker shows off his Popeye-like arms. - DE - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:14 pm: If I had his hair I’d have been President! - BandCamp - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:15 pm: Blago: “Is he looking at the top of my head? I think he is. I can feel him looking at me. Why is he sitting up there where he can look at me? What’s two hundred million times ten?” - ahoy! - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:15 pm: ever feel like there is an angry man behind you? - A Citizen - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:15 pm: MJM quietly thinks “fiberglass hair, dang, why didn’t I think of that?” - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:16 pm: cynically anonymous wins an ad because I spit out my Pepsi all over my brand new keyboard. The contest continues, however. CA, send me an email. - Anon - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:16 pm: Blue Shirts and Pleated Khaki Dockers All the Rage on Springfield Fashion Scene - Levois - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:16 pm: One looks angry and the other clueless. - Prairie Sage - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:30 pm: With kindest personal regards, I remain downwind of the b****** of the Blagojevich people. - Trent Green's Clipboard - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:30 pm: This year I have the sun in my eyes, but soon enough I’ll have the daughter instead. - Commonsense in Illinois - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:31 pm: …He’s looking out over what smiling faces…there..I frown-everybody frowns… - A Citizen - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:38 pm: The smartest man is always the one with the largest forehead. - Kevin Fanning - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:42 pm: “Is the sun shining directly behind me? Because it feels like something is burning a hole in my back.” - DuPage Moderate - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:43 pm: I knew I shouldn’t have worn blue. - Commonsense in Illinois - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:44 pm: Okay, everybody repeat after me…Mr. Speaker, turn that frown upside-down! Great, Great…Thank you very much… - A Citizen - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:45 pm: Sitting behind him, not being able to see his lips move, it’s hard to tell for sure that he’s lying. - stealers wheel - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:47 pm: “Well, I don’t know why I came here tonight, I got a feeling that something ain’t right, I’m so scared in case I fall off my chair, And I’m wondering how I’ll get down the stairs, Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am Stuck in the middle with you.” - Ghost - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:57 pm: Whats Cross doing with that water ballon? or The Hair Club for men presents before and after pics of their new treatment. - Steve - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:57 pm: Great moments in the Illinois Democratic Party. - DuPage Boy - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 2:57 pm: OMG, there’s a big bug on my leg, uh oh, it’s just Blagojevich. For a second there I was worried. - Trent Green's Clipboard - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:01 pm: This corn dog is giving me indigestion. - COPN - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:01 pm: Madigan: Is Desmond Tutu wearing a Blagojevich t-shirt? Blagojevich: Just two more miracles, and it’s “St. Rod, Patron Saint of Compromise.” - Louis G. Atsaves - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:03 pm: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, . . - Kevin Fanning - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:04 pm: MJM: “If I have to listen to homeboy blame me for the education funding crisis one more time then I am outta here.” - Anon - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:04 pm: Two pigs in a poke. - Crafty Girl - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:04 pm: On the way to the Democratic convention in Colorado, Speaker Madigan threatens to turn the car around. - Irish - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:08 pm: Grumpy says; Where’s sleepy, doc, bashful, happy and sneezy? - Millstadt News Guy - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:09 pm: MJM sports latest idea to plug $2 gazillion hole in the budget: Nike-sponsored sportswear. The back of the shirt says “Overtime In Hell 2008″ - IllinoisBelows - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:10 pm: MJM: “Aww phooey, I’m always being benched by Coach…” - A Citizen - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:16 pm: Hmmm, sitting behind him with the sun on his head, it’s clear where the hair covers up the scars where the horns were removed. Hmmmm ! - Hickory - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:27 pm: Keep an eye out for rotten eggs. - Anon - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:28 pm: Testicular verility taken to a new low - Wifey - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:29 pm: I should have known better than to touch his hair… now I’ll never get my arm out. - anon sequitor - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:34 pm: “The half-baked sermon causes spiritual indigestion” - Austin O’Malley - Cogito - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:36 pm: “Mike, just squint a little bit more and you can see the pie in the sky!” - Ghost - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:38 pm: That apple blago cut up for me earlier is making me gassy. - Downstate weed chewing hick - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:40 pm: “Bachelor Number 2, what kind of kisser are you?” - Anonymous - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:40 pm: From top to bottom - The Good, The Bad, and cut off at the bottom, The Ugly ! - A Citizen - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:41 pm: - Anonymous - Um, sorry, that was me. - Rod sez I'm pork - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:45 pm: Rod: Oh stewardess, I speak jive. - unclesam - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:49 pm: Rod thinking to himself: “Maybe this year, I’ll do my best Joey Tribiani impression. How YOU doin? How YOU DOIN? Screw it, I’ll just go with the Daley joke.” MJM to himself: “If I hear that Daley joke again…” - trafficmatt - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:53 pm: “I would be calling Speaker Madigan to the podium at this point, but I had the State Police take him to my personal dentist a couple hours ago to have his jaw wired shut after he tragically fell down a flight of stairs. How’s that Vicodin holding up Mike? OK, now that’t over, Speaker Madigan wanted me to announce a new funding program for Wrigley Field that he just drafted………” - Linda B - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:55 pm: I keep stepping on him, but he always pops back up! - Shallow Pharnyx - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:55 pm: Blago: Why you be hatin, MJM? All I have is love in my heart for you. - A Citizen - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:56 pm: “so I was just standing there and President Bush walks up to me and says: “So you are the brilliant Mike Madagin I’ve heard so much about from Senator Durbin?”" - Ghost - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:56 pm: MJM: who keeps calling me and hanging up! RB: I love this new blackberry with madigans cell on speed dial… - bored on 1 - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:56 pm: (Madigan) (notice where his hand is placed) See…if I put the flashlight up to his ear, you can see light coming out the other side. - Ghost - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 3:59 pm: MJM: phew, that hair gel puts off some nasty fumes! RB: I wonder if everyone appreciates how nice my hair looks. - Ghost - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 4:00 pm: MJM: here comes Hoffman. RB: Here comes Hoffman! - Jake from Elwood - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 4:03 pm: The Grinch sneers down at Whoville and their hapless mayor. - Vote Quimby! - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 4:04 pm: MJM’s left hand is giving the governor a one-finger salute. - Ghost - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 4:08 pm: MJM: What’s Miller doing with that Camera? RB: ohhh a camera! - Crafty Girl - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 4:08 pm: “We are not amused.” - zatoichi - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 4:10 pm: Clint Eastwood judges the Beaver Cleaver look-a-like contest. - siriusly - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 4:10 pm: Speaker Madigan seen here trying to use the using the Jedi mind control trick on the Governor again. Unfortunately for him, he still doesn’t realize that Blagojevich means “toydarian” in Serbian. (that part for the true SW geeks only). - Bubs - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 4:20 pm: I can do this, I can do this, just have to concentrate hard. Telepathic Pain Ray, hmmf! Telepathic Pain Ray, Hmmmf!! Telepathic Pain Ray, HMMMF!!! - drobfetty - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 4:23 pm: LOL Zatoichi! - phocion - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 4:28 pm: Best comments on photo caption contest in a long, long time! Special kudos to zatoichi, trafficmatt, cogito, crafty girl, downstate GOP, lefty lefty, and anon 1:41. I noticed another ironic image on this pic, too…that behind MJM you can read the word “HA” - Amuzing Myself - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 4:37 pm: MJM. “I don’t believe this guy! I’m actually sitting next to an alien in a state logo polo!?! How did he manage that?!…Hmmmm …. if I stick this corn dog in his ear here, I wonder if it’ll go all the way through?!” - BobW - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 4:42 pm: Did I remember to put sunburn lotion on my nose when I took my hemmorhoid medication? Or did I mix them up again? - Crimefighter - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 4:44 pm: RB - I called a special session and once again Mike is here instead of the capitol. - Capitol View - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 5:06 pm: MJM: let’s see - if we have a Con-Con, can we change our form of state government to the British, with the majority leader of the House also serving as head of the executive branch consisting of cabinets? Hmm… - DE - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 5:11 pm: Madigan files $100 Million malpractice suit following botched leg transplant. - Irish - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 5:12 pm: MJM: Am I smiling? I can’t tell if I’m smiling!! (ala Joan Rivers in Insurance ad) ROD: This is my concerned, caring, homeboy African American, son of a hardworking immigrant, William Jefferson Clinton look. ( Re; my earlier post of 3:08. You see, MJM knows where the seventh dwarf is.) - so-called "Austin Mayor" - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 5:21 pm: “I have many regrets, but I’d have to say, right at this moment, judging the amateur division of the chili cook-off tops the list.” – SCAM so-called “Austin Mayor” http://austinmayor.blogspot.com - Ken in Aurora - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 5:25 pm: Madigan: “I sure wish the 4H would quit presenting him with gallons of pickled eggs!” - Arthur Andersen - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 5:37 pm: “I can’t believe this dumb *** forgot the words to the Pledge of Allegiance.” - Arthur Andersen - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 5:40 pm: And AA makes it 100! Rich, your “Lottery Lease” entry was almost identical to my first one, just switch “Pension Bonds” for “Lotto” and, well, you know… - decatur voter - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 5:58 pm: MJm “I got to stop eating fair corn dogs if I going to have to listen to bad hound dog loving speeches.” - David - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 5:58 pm: This thing could have been fun if Miller wasn’t such a prude. - Angry Chicagoan - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 6:15 pm: SOMETHING IN BIG HAIR AFTER ALL — Governor Rod Blagojevich uses his embalmed ‘do to pin House Speaker Michael Madigan to the dais at the Illinois State Fair. - Anonymous - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 6:26 pm: Caption: MJM and the Gov watch as a heckler in a superhero costume gets escorted away by State Troopers. MJM callout: “Now there’s an odd fellow. Poor guy.” Gov: “Wow, who was that masked man? I want to be just like him when I grow up.” - Ahem - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 6:42 pm: Madigan to self: “I am the master of impulse control. I am the master of impulse control. I am the master of impulse control. I am the master of impulse control. As much as I want to ‘Just do it’ I won’t. Don’t do it Mike. Don’t do it Mike. Don’t do it Mike. Sure he won’t see it coming. Sure he has it coming. Just don’t do it Mike. Don’t do it Mike.” - Heartless Libertarian - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 6:44 pm: MJM: I stayed in Springfield, and what happens, HE actually shows up. Gosh, what are the odds? - Shallow Pharynx - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 7:07 pm: MJM to Blago: I’ll try being nicer if you’ll try being smarter. Blago to MJM: I’m really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me. - Header - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 7:25 pm: Madigan: “Dang! If only I had Rod’s bangs to cover this stupid V in my forehead.” - Ahem - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 7:59 pm: ROD: “All these people came to see me.” MJM: “Usually I wake up and go to the bathroom about now.” I like Don’t Worry, Be Happy’s thumb in ear comment. It made me bust out laughing after looking at the photo another time. - Quizzical - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 8:56 pm: Compared to listening to this guy speak, the kidney stone is actually enjoyable. - Anon - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 9:08 pm: Wonder if anyone would notice if I left for a corn dog. - zoble - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 9:24 pm: Why didn’t I run Lisa last time! - Obamalac - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 9:27 pm: Darn, now I’ll never know if Rich Miller Sr would’ve really done that to the Guv in front of all of these people. Should’ve returned his phone call last week! - wordslinger - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 9:57 pm: Blago: “No, I saw it over in the holding barn. And I’m here to tell you, Alderman Beavers, move over.” MJM: “There’s something wrong with that boy.” - Avy Meyers - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 9:59 pm: 2 extra ordinarily awful people. May we never see their like again. - the ole precinct captain - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 10:02 pm: Hey it’s megatron vs optimus prime. - One of Three Puppets - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 10:14 pm: MJM: “Maybe I DO need Rogaine to get hair like him. Darn it” - Arthur Andersen - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 10:25 pm: “Wonder if his campaign fund bought that fruity plaid shirt from Nordstrom’s? Thank God Brown gave me this polo shirt; I sure wouldn’t go out and buy it.” - OurMagician - Tuesday, Aug 12, 08 @ 11:48 pm: 170,000 a year and he still goes to SuperCuts…. - Captain Flume - Wednesday, Aug 13, 08 @ 7:59 am: The Speaker finally has the Governor’s ear. - Anon - Wednesday, Aug 13, 08 @ 8:29 am: Pretty dumb winner Rich. - Northside Bunker - Wednesday, Aug 13, 08 @ 8:45 am: Honesty vs. Deception - Northside Bunker - Wednesday, Aug 13, 08 @ 9:01 am: Addenda to previous post Gepetto making Pinocchio Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.