Sign of the times
Tuesday, Jun 2, 2009 - Posted by Rich Miller * Before Pat Quinn became governor, this was a staff only, do not enter sign… And the staff was quite nice to me when I walked through the door and took a wrong turn. Well, most of them. Bob Reed, the governor’s top spokesman, didn’t seem all that pleased when he looked up and saw me standing in his doorway. He didn’t throw me out, though, so it was worth the test. Caption?
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- OneMan - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 11:50 am:
Please leave a recording devices at the door.
- sal-says - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 11:52 am:
Shouldn’t the sign have $15,000 at the bottom?
- Statehouse intern - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 11:53 am:
…unless you’re a Madigan.
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 11:55 am:
Restrooms are for customers only.
- anon - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 11:55 am:
Is that the silhouette of our ex-governor?
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 11:56 am:
===Is that the silhouette of our ex-governor?===
lol
Nope. Me.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 11:57 am:
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
- Belle - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 11:58 am:
Looks like Alfred Hitchcock in the background… seems fitting!
- steve schnorf - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 11:59 am:
I have told the Governor’s staff that the sign symbolically represents to me one of the most refreshing changes the new administration has made.
- Greg - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 12:01 pm:
“Common prison wall decoration”
- Reddbyrd - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 12:03 pm:
The Blagoofers blew it when they declined to understand that locking that door — I believe you are standing in front of 212 — set a tone that they wanted to isolate themselves from the rest of the world.
It blew up in their face
- Vote Quimby! - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 12:14 pm:
Below there is a sign: 40% off sale! Face time now only $15,000. We’re Ro-o-o-o-lling back prices!
- Arthur Andersen - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 12:18 pm:
“No camera phones allowed.”
Steve and Redd, I wholeheartedly agree with your comments.
- You Go Boy - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 12:19 pm:
So you enter only to find you are 2 stories up and nothing but air after you pass thru…the things that run through your mind as you freefall toward the pile of bodies below (but coming up fast!) Quinn the jokester…
- Obamarama - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 12:19 pm:
Another sign hangs below reading: “Gone Press Conferencin’”
- Ghost - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 12:26 pm:
“Out-of-Business”
- Das Man - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 12:26 pm:
… and Come on Down! … If and when The Price is Right…
- Rick - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 12:38 pm:
“Abandon Hope, Ye Who Enter Here!”
- Levois - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 1:01 pm:
We’ve got snacks, coffee, bottled water, anything you want. Make yourself comfortable, even if you have no business here.
- Cal Skinner - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 1:06 pm:
Back to the Ryan, Thompson and Walker days.
- soccermom - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 1:09 pm:
Maybe Bob thought you were Rick Pearson.
- ahem - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 1:21 pm:
“Welcome to the Governor’s Office, PLEASE COME IN, Pardon Our Dust While We Fumigate”
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 1:26 pm:
soccermom, lol. He knew who I was.
- anon - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 1:26 pm:
I agree, the sign really is symbolic of the change. Too bad changes have not been made where the real problem exists.
- Reddbyrd - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 1:31 pm:
Actually Reed looks like both Capt Fax and Pearson
with a better haircut and clothes
Tripletts seperated at birth?
- soccermom - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 1:32 pm:
JK, JK
- Bubs - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 1:40 pm:
. . . and bring money!
- The Old Bobby - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 1:41 pm:
Just make sure that you have your press-pass or you will be asked to leave……
- LS - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 1:58 pm:
This sign hand printed by Governor Quinn and not at taxpayers’ expense
- observation - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 2:08 pm:
The shadow of Rich in the background almost makes it seem like he is in some sort of witness protection program.
- Michael - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 2:27 pm:
At Your Peril…
- Rose - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 2:41 pm:
Remember the modular office they placed adjacent to the portajohn? It’s a stunt!
- Pale Rider - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 2:53 pm:
. . . to get directions to Madigan’s office. (The Real Power in Springfield)
- anon - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 2:54 pm:
Next stop, Big Muddy!
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 3:02 pm:
To demonstrate our new level of transparency, clothing is optional!
- Belle - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 3:28 pm:
VanillaMan - something to the tune Hotel California?
- Fredbird - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 4:13 pm:
Welcome to the Governor’s Office
Please Come In
We need your help!!!
- VanillaMan - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 4:30 pm:
Please not Hotel California!
Welcome To The Office - Guns N’ Roses, enhanced by VanillaMan
Welcome to the Office
We’ve got fun ‘n’ games
We got everything you want
Honey, we know the names
We are the people that can find
Whatever you may need
If you got the money, honey
We’ll vote to please
In the Governor’s Office
Welcome to the Office
Watch it bring you to your
sha na na na na na na na
knees, knees
We’re like rats to cheese!
Welcome to the Office
We take it day by day
If you want it, it’s pay-to-play
We just like it that way!
And you’re a Chicago Mayor
That’s very hard to please
You can get your Olympics
But you won’t get them for free
In the Governor’s Office
Welcome to the Office
Feel my, my, cutting budget line
We, we wanna hear you scream
Welcome to the Office
It gets worse here everyday
Ya learn ta live like an animal
In the Office where we play
If you got a hunger for what you see
You’ll take it eventually
You can have anything you want
But you better not take it from me
In the Governor’s Office
Welcome to the Office
Watch it bring you to your
sha na na na na na na na
knees, knees
We’ll tax ya til you bleed
And when you’re high you never
Ever want to come down, so down,
So down, so down, so dooooowwwwwn
YEAH yeah yeah!
You know where you are?
You’re in the Office baby.
You’re gonna cry!
In the Governor’s Office
Welcome to the Office
Watch it bring you to your
sha na na na na na na na
knees, knees
In the Governor’s Office
Welcome to the Office
Feel the pressure break your spine!
In the Governor’s Office
Welcome to the Office
Watch it bring you to your
sha na na na na na na na
knees, knees
In the Governor’s Office
Welcome to the Office
Watch it bring you to your
It’ gonna bring you down-HA!
- Third Generation Chicago Native - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 4:48 pm:
I wonder if the Elvis doll Blago had in his office is gone now. Maybe it should also read “Elvis has left the building”
- long time state worker - Tuesday, Jun 2, 09 @ 6:39 pm:
Bell out of order, please knock.
(I really did think of this before I read the other obvious reference to the Wizard of OZ)