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Question of the day
Thursday, May 6, 2010 - Posted by Rich Miller * Rep. John Fritchey (D-Chicago) just announced that he was moving his final bill as a House member. Fritchey won the Democratic nomination for a Cook County Board seat in February, so he’s retiring from the House. In his honor…  * The Question: Caption?
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- Old Shepherd - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:14 pm:
I prefer the flat tanning beds to the stand-up beds.
- Stooges - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:16 pm:
I’m telling ya, Balgojevich is only this tall after the beating Fitz has given him.
- Ramsin - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:19 pm:
“You must be this tall to be Attorney General of Illinois….naw, just kidding Mike, she’s cool.”
- VanillaMan - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:19 pm:
“Are ya breathing Michael? I don’t feel any breath!”
- VanillaMan - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:20 pm:
“Look! See? I’m not shaking! I’m not afraid of ya!”
- JustforFun - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:20 pm:
Mr.Speaker…I have a stack of papers this tall with a few students that would like to be accepted into U of I. Could u help me with this? Or do you not have any “power” to influence the board?
- OneMan - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:21 pm:
You want to get a smooth clear base tan before you have the guy come in and spray on the second layer.
Or
Madigan thought, I have it all, I should be happy, but damn I wish I could tan like that.
or
Madigan wonders why George Hamilton is on the floor today.
- Bring Back Boone's - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:21 pm:
“If it weren’t for that damn hot dog with ketchup mailer my vote in that special election would have gone from here to here!”
- Montrose - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:21 pm:
Jam Master Jay used spin the records just like this. It was beautiful. I will post the youtube video of it on facebook so you can see. We’ll still be facebook friends, right?
- Bill - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:22 pm:
I haven’t even been elected yet and the stack of resumes from county job seekers is this high.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:23 pm:
“When I was a freshman member, Speaker, I swear, you were only this tall … Look how you have grown!”
- the Other Anonymous - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:24 pm:
No, Mr. Speaker, you don’t look like a leprechaun. Leprechauns are this tall.
- wordslinger - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:24 pm:
“Mike, I’ve been waiting a long time to do this. Judo chop!”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:25 pm:
“The amount of crap bills I have voted on this year was this high”
- Stones - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:25 pm:
Pick two!
- fisher - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:27 pm:
If I gave you a stack of money this high, would you finally crack a smile?
- Bubs - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:28 pm:
When the water gets this high, it’s time to scram.
- wordslinger - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:28 pm:
“John, I will not pull your finger. I trusted Emil Jones on that once. You only get one big lie.”
- Rich Miller - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:31 pm:
JF: “Dude, I can’t believe you’ve never played the hand-slap game. Here, I’ll even let you start first. But, be warned, I’m fast, man. Fast.”
MJM: “If I focus all my awesome powers of superhuman concentration, I think I can burn a hole right through to the back of his head.”
- unclesam - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:32 pm:
Fritchey: Is this how to properly motion your hand when speaking on an issue?
- Dave - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:34 pm:
John: Paper!
Mike: Speaker Stare beats Paper every time, I don’t need scissors.
- lefty - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:36 pm:
Speaker thinking “he can’t even get the high-5 right”
- Piepants McGee - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:37 pm:
No, John. I’m the master puppeteer.
- Anonymous - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:39 pm:
So, when I told you this was my final bill, that was technically true. I’ll still be here, I’m just not going to move anymore bills.
- Knome Sane - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:41 pm:
“Ann Williams? She’s about yay big”
- dupage dan - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:44 pm:
Don’t point your finger at me Daddy-O or I’ll cut it off.
- @all - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:50 pm:
MM: I never noticed before that Fritchey didn’t have a neck.
JF: He’s about this tall. Red hair. Name’s Barton. Works for Miller. Ring a bell? No?
- 47th Ward - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:54 pm:
“There is more money potential in narcotics than anything else we’re looking at now. If we don’t get into it, somebody else will, maybe one of the Five Families, maybe all of them. And with the money they earn they’ll be able to buy more police and political power. Then they come after us. Right now we have the unions and we have the gambling and those are the best things to have. But narcotics is a thing of the future. If we don’t get a piece of that action we risk everything we have. Not now, but ten years from now.”
- cicero - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 12:54 pm:
This is how high the B.S. gets in the House.
- Maverick - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 1:05 pm:
‘See, Iceman, The MiG was HERE, and then I go inverted…”
- Joe from Joliet - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 1:13 pm:
F- I was practicing my “Close Encounters…” alien sign language and my arm got stuck.
M- Hmmmm.
- Fed up - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 1:14 pm:
Yeah he’s only this tall and to dumb to get into U of I on his own but his dad contributed some money to the cook co Dem party so I told you coul get him in U of I Mike
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 1:24 pm:
“And he told him Speaker, ‘Any more letters from that school go to that house, in the oven he goes …’ Powerful scene.”
- Louis G. Atsaves - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 1:27 pm:
“Amazing! By the time I leave the red ink will be up to HERE!”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 1:30 pm:
Go grease lightning you’re burning up the quarter mile…
Grease lightning go grease lightning…
Go grease lightning you’re coasting through the heat lap trial…
- Aldyth - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 1:32 pm:
We’re this deep in trouble.
- Pat Robertson - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 1:38 pm:
I can do the fluttering hand just like Curly, but I could whoop like him.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 1:38 pm:
“No Speaker, everyone makes that mistake …
Let me help …
On the ‘Windmill’ hole, you try to roll the ball ater the counting ‘1, 2, 3…’ then roll it right through to the tube, it rolls through the windmill, flattens out, then right in the cup …
Free game… every time. Try that next time”
- Pat Robertson - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 1:40 pm:
* never whoop
- Jake from Elwood - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 1:51 pm:
Darth Madigan employs a Dark Side mindtrick to compel the light saber behind him towards Jedi Fritchey’s left hand.
- Rep. John Fritchey - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 1:58 pm:
Really guys? Say what you will but the entertainment value, intentional or otherwise, of this place is going to plummet once I leave.
But I’ll still look forward to keeping tabs on things, and on all of you, via Rich’s blog.
- real housewives of Springfield, IL - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 2:04 pm:
Fritchey: “So listen Mike. I’m up here. Okay? And you’re like down here. Get it?”
Fritchey: “Whatever Mike. I am so through with this legislative body. I’m out of here.”
- prairiestatedem - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 2:05 pm:
F: Like so many other members that have moved on from you over there years…Ive had it up to here with this place!
- Obamarama - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 2:06 pm:
Wasn’t this exact picture already used for a caption contest previously?
- Rich Miller - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 2:10 pm:
Obamarama, it may have been, but whatever. We’re having fun with it.
- Obamarama - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 2:14 pm:
Ok then.
JF: “If I look at you from about here down, you look sort of like Hollywood Hendon in that tie.”
- Rep. John Fritchey - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 2:14 pm:
Rich, if there was some way that I could keep people from downloading an image from your site, I have a photo of Rod and I from the Pride Parade about 10 years ago that you would have a field day with
- Rich Miller - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 2:17 pm:
Aw, c’mon, John. Send it over!!!
- Rep. John Fritchey - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 2:20 pm:
I hate to admit it, but it’s actually in my car right now. And you best not send that 12 year old intern of yours to try to break in.
Aren’t blogs subject to child labor laws Miller?
- Captain Flume - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 2:23 pm:
F–”Sometimes I use this much Grecian Formula.”
M–(thinking) “They oughta mix it with Rogaine.”
- Rich Miller - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 2:23 pm:
They’re both 21. They only look so young because you are so OLD!!! Heh.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 2:30 pm:
“Oh thanks … yeah, what I do .. to ‘do more with less’ … is to shave my head razor-thin up top, and I mean RAZOR-THIN … then, what little hair is left, you dye it jet black, tan the top of the head slightly darker then the tan I get for my body… Bingo!”
- Paul - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 2:35 pm:
oh please Rep. Fritchey - you’re one to talk about exploiting child labor. I remember seeing a mail piece 12 years ago titled:
“John Fritchey’s got a new set of wheels!”
- Name Withheld - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 2:41 pm:
Frichey: “See, if you cut the apple like this, it makes an even slice”
Madigan: “Whatever.”
- Rep. John Fritchey - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 2:47 pm:
Paul Paul Paul, that was 14 years ago, and I’m hoping that my daughter doesn’t come after me for that one
- Joe from Joliet - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 3:13 pm:
F- My final bit of advice to you, Mr. Speaker: Nancy Pelosi does these kinds of Michael Stipe gyrations when she speaks and, I don’t know, I just think it looks cool. You should try it.
M- omg
(M is never excited so no caps)
- Barton Lorimor - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 3:32 pm:
Sorry boss, but my name was used in debate.
M: “Did you just swallow your gum, or should I call the nurse?”
- Small Town Liberal - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 3:40 pm:
Rep. Fritchey flinches while the Speaker remains unfazed by Rep. Ramey firing on a 12 point buck he chased into the capitol…
- just sayin' - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 3:43 pm:
The ladies dig me because I own the last surviving case of Hai Karate aftershave.
- Robert - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 4:10 pm:
So the deficit is about yay high when I’m leaving - how much you wanna bet it will get even worse after I leave?
- truthman - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 4:15 pm:
Look, no strings!
- Six Degrees of Separation - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 4:17 pm:
And this is an alligator! Now let me show you the bunny rabbit.
- MrJM - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 4:17 pm:
“See, under the right arm I used Old Spice High Endurance deodorant and it doesn’t smell at all. But under the left arm…”
- sick and tired - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 5:04 pm:
Hey Mike, “Pull my finger”
- Quizzical - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 5:38 pm:
It’s not you Mr. Speaker.
See, about 6 months ago, I was driving down here and I look out the car window. All is see is cornfields for miles and miles. Nothing but cornfields. And I said to myself, I’ve got to get a job closer to home.
- Quizzical - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 5:44 pm:
And so you see something out there, say a three-legged dog. And you just put it up on Twitter, and then people want to vote for you. It really is that simple.
- Paul S. - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 6:32 pm:
the lake was so smooth……like glass
- zatoichi - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 9:38 pm:
Sensai M checks the new student’s kata form.
- Donald Wareham - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 10:31 pm:
I’m gonna collect my pension and fly right into that county board seat before ya’ll change something else with our pension
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 11:02 pm:
“Speaker, no … I wasn’t talking McPier … I was saying …’Take a LONG walk … off a short pier’ …a LONG LONG walk”
- Tex - Thursday, May 6, 10 @ 11:50 pm:
John - “Mercy is for the weak. We do not train to be merciful here. A man who face you he is enemy. Enemy deserve no mercy.”
…
John - “Live or die?”
Mike - “die”
John - “Wrong!”
{HONK}
- colt 45 - Friday, May 7, 10 @ 8:22 am:
Fritchey “Ok, paper!” Madigan, showing nothing, “you still lose”.
- bk - Friday, May 7, 10 @ 8:54 am:
“You are getting verrrry sleepy…sleepy.”
- anon - Friday, May 7, 10 @ 8:09 pm:
Ann Williams…I cannot wait until next year!