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Caption contest!
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - Posted by Rich Miller * Here’s another photo from last week’s highly entertaining Capitol Capers spoof of the Wizard of Oz. Today’s features Senate President John Cullerton as the Wizard and Rep. Karen May as the “Good Witch”…  Thanks to Lee Milner for the pics. * Yesterday’s winner was “The Captain” for this gem…
TC gets a free ticket to this summer’s White Sox Caucus party at the ballpark. Today’s winner will receive the same prize. * And, as always, keep it clean, people. Thanks.
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- chi - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 6:38 am:
But it’s so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy’s? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
- bored now - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 7:01 am:
As your king, I am humbled to proclaim Illinois is…. [turns to director and whispers] what’s my line? what’s my line???
- waitress practing politics... - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 7:25 am:
Pay no attention to the Mike uh man behind the curtain…
- Oneman - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 7:26 am:
Senator Cullerton had to be reminded that he in fact was not Mike Madigan.
- Oneman - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 7:27 am:
Senator Cullerton Just moments after Danny Davis put the crown on his head
- Oneman - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 7:29 am:
Some felt that naming a State Senator and a State Rep as prom King and Queen at Smallville High was a bad idea, however it did pay off come budget time
- Oneman - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 7:30 am:
Some felt that Senator Cullerton let the power the Democrats had over the re-map go to his head.
or
“Senator Lauzen please step forward to get the proposed map”
- Oneman - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 7:32 am:
Apparently some in the legislature took their ‘research’ into the advantages of medical marijuana too far.
- Oneman - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 7:35 am:
I was given this remap by a pair of magical statistical munchkins who after consultation with the good witch and some lawyers say it will pass muster…
- Oneman - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 7:36 am:
What do you mean I can’t change the pension system or contributions? I am the king!
- Oneman - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 7:39 am:
Senator Cullerton’s impression of former governor Rod fell flat when it was realized that he missunderstood Rod’s love of the King
- LLCCAlum - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 7:41 am:
I solved Illinois budget problems by selling naming rights to Burger King.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 7:47 am:
This new legislative map will be “Fair”, and will be “in the best intrest of the voters of Illinois”!
- railrat - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 7:57 am:
William and Kate we are the REAL next King and Queen !!
- Solomon - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 7:58 am:
But it’s so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy’s? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
- just sayin' - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 8:07 am:
And here is your new district. Next. Keep it moving please people.
- Oswego Willy - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 8:07 am:
The Great Cull-Nac tells us what “The Jersey Shore”, Rod Blagojevich, and The Chicken Dance have in common …
- just sayin' - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 8:10 am:
I have to say I think waitress practing politics has the winner so far. She has the definitive answer.
- Solomon - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 8:13 am:
Oh geez just strike mine…
- Boondocks - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 8:24 am:
With this decree, I am officially renaming the Yellow Brick Road….The BLEEPING Golden Brick Road…
- Cincinnatus - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 8:26 am:
I proclaim the state budget balanced.
- Cincinnatus - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 8:29 am:
Q: What’s black and white and red all over?
A: Cullerton, May, and the state budget John’s holding.
- north shore - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 8:41 am:
Pay No attention to that man in the mansion… It is our budget!
- Small Town Liberal - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 8:49 am:
You see Senate Republicans, back where I come from, we have back rooms, seats of great learning, where Senators go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have! But they have one thing you haven’t got - bills, like this one I’m holding here.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 8:55 am:
I don’t know about a caption, but the Senate President looks eerily like Wallace Shawn, the Masked Avenger in Radio Days: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001728/
- PFK - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 8:55 am:
But seriously folks, the State of Illinois is being repossessed by creditors, and I’ve just been handed this eviction notice. We have 5 days to vacate. To the hot air balloon!
- politics junkie - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 8:56 am:
It’s good to be the king. Just don’t tell Madigan I borrowed his stuff.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 9:04 am:
“Seriously, where’s the staff work here? The Wizard didn’t wear a crown or robes. I look like a jamoke. And he never had a scene with Glinda. This skit should have never gotten out of committee….”
- bdrlgion - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 9:21 am:
Inconceivable!
- MrJM - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 9:24 am:
“I’m sorry Dorthy, but with the budget so tight, I just can’t send you all the way back to Kansas. But I think we can get you a ride to Missouri…”
– MrJM
- the Other Anonymous - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 9:35 am:
There. were no balanced budgets in medieval times, hence there is no balanced budget at Medieval Times. Would you like a refill on that pension?
- downhereforyears - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 9:49 am:
Truth is, the wizard was Madigan, they just couldn’t get him to wear the silly costume!!!
- Vibes - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 9:57 am:
Since the entire Wizard of Oz is an allegory for Salem, Illinois native William Jennings Bryan (and son of an Illinois State Senator) and his campaigns for President, my entry paraphrases his famous Chicago convention speech:
“Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests and the toilers everywhere, we will answer the bankers’ demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of pension payments.”
Oh wait — I guess Cullerton wouldn’t quite say it that way.
- B - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 10:09 am:
Cullerton (aka Vizzini from Princess Bride): Am I going MAD, or did the word “think” escape your lips?
- Jaded - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 10:13 am:
Illinois legislators doing what they do best… playing make believe.
- OneMan - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 10:25 am:
I hear-by grant Sears an extension of their tax rebates for another 20 years.
- Ahoy - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 10:37 am:
I hold in my hand the new legislative map and some of you will be going home, never to return to Springfield.
- Pikes - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 10:39 am:
“Just give me the map already!”
- Don't Worry, Be Happy - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 10:56 am:
“I must have absolute silence…”
- Commonsense in Illinois - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 11:00 am:
…but with Charmin Super-sized…
- Esquire - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 11:04 am:
Jason Alexander (George on the comedy series “Seinfeld”) announces that he is preparing a television pilot based upon the popular episode in which he appeared as “the King” at a movie theater managed by Cosmo Kramer.
- Ghost of John Brown - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 11:04 am:
“And here Good Witch, I grant Michael Madigan a heart, Tom Cross the courage that he needs and Pat Quinn will have a brain.”
- I don't want to know, I already gave up - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 11:25 am:
Narrator: “Nobody beats the wiz is slashing benefits on all state pension plans and retirement benefits.”
Cullerton: “Nobody beats me, because I’m the Wiz
Narrator: “Your TRS benefits, slashed by 20%.
Cullerton: “I am the Wiz.”
Narrator: “State employees, Nobody beats the Wiz is now slashing your benefits so much that you will now have to move in with your kids upon hitting retirement age.”
Cullerton: “Remember, nobody beats me, because I am the wiz. Yes, I’m the Wiz. The Wiz.”
- DC - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 11:33 am:
And the winner of the Pizza Machine party is…..
- Dead on - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 11:36 am:
@B: Cullerton IS Vizzini from Princess Bride! Glad someone else caught it! Hilarious!
- zatoichi - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 11:36 am:
The highlight of our auction is this original contract for the Who to play Woodstock. It does not get better than this. Opening bid…….
- Anonymous - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 11:39 am:
I hold in my hand a scroll that has been on the front porch of Funk and Wagnalls since 10 o’clock this morning.
- JoePeoria - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 11:43 am:
“And, I decree that we will be the first official Domestic Partners in the entire State of Illinois!!” (crowd cheers)
- OneMan - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 11:50 am:
In order to save even more money the state fair is doing it’s own production of King Lear.
- OneMan - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 11:50 am:
the costume cost him points in the Frank Purdue look-alike contest
- Statewide - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 12:16 pm:
Using the technology from the film “Inception,” the art of extraction - stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state - CapitolFax.com captured this image of Sen. John Cullerton’s dream conclusion to the Spring session.
- D.P. Gumby - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 12:25 pm:
(w/ apologies to Lerner and Lowe)
“We know we may annoy, we know our act’s a ploy
but our brief shining moment now
is here in Ill-i-nois”
- I can't believe I'm competing for Sox tix - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 12:38 pm:
Quinn asked the wizard for a brain, Madigan asked the wizard for a heart, and Cross asked the wizard for courage.
- x ace - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 12:41 pm:
Colt 45 and The Bull are gone to Calif. Therefore , it is hereby declared, proclaimed , and ordained that the Official State Malt Liquor is:……………
- mokenavince - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 12:51 pm:
Forget the Stiff on the left,I dig the Bride.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 12:59 pm:
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
And that, folks, was the key guideline that was used in coming up with our new budget. As you can see we’re all in this together.
- JBilla - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 1:08 pm:
Never go against a Democrat when Pensions are on the line!
- Anon in Chicago - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 1:15 pm:
Somewhere over the rainbow
Smokes are banned
STAR bonds rule the landscape
And so does this map in my hand
- chiatty - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 1:16 pm:
I just accepted the Wallace Shawn role in “Princess Bride II”.
- Jimmy CrackCorn - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 1:19 pm:
I call to order this meeting of the 38th Ward Regular Democratic Organization. Our first order of business…
- Ahoy - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 1:20 pm:
Why, anybody can have a brain. That’s a very mediocre commodity. What the Republican’s need is a bill.
- Ahoy - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 1:29 pm:
Boy he does look like Vizzini in this picture.
“I’ve hired you to help me start a war. It’s an prestigious line of work, with a long and glorious tradition.”
- Zero - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 1:39 pm:
In my hand I hold the answer to Illinois’ budget problem, and it can be yours! All for the low, low price of $9 billion!
- Anon - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 2:45 pm:
“Inconceivable!”
- Vote Quimby! - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 3:08 pm:
“OK start ‘Dark Side of the Moon’……NOW!”
- Ghost of John Brown - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 3:09 pm:
“I can’t believe I’m competing”
Copying my line??
- Blondie - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 3:24 pm:
And the winning IDOT bid for the yellow brick road goes to:…….
- wordslinger - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 3:43 pm:
I’m outraged (waaayyyy, crazy-like outraged) to see the confusion and disrespect in the show and comments about the “Wizard of Oz,” certainly one of the greatest movies of all time from one of the great movie years of all time, 1939.
Here’s the deal: the Wizard was a phony and a rascal, and he didn’t wear a crown and robes. He didn’t have a scene with Glinda. Although Cullerton looks a little bit like Wallace Shawn, the “Wizard of Oz” has nothing to do with “The Princess Bride.”
It’s like Henry Hill sitting down with Bonnie Parker to figure how they’re going to get Don Barzini.
I’m in earnest about this! I will not equivocate!
- Yellow Dog Democrat - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 3:55 pm:
Princess Bride II: Vizzini’s Revenge
- 3rd Generation Chicago - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 4:56 pm:
And when the good Witch waves her wand over this magic map the State of Illinois will turn into the Land of OZ, and Chicago will be known as the Emerald City.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 10:34 pm:
“There is no place like home. There is no place like home (which may be Springfield).”
- OneMan - Tuesday, May 17, 11 @ 10:46 pm:
Why yes, Mike said it would be a good idea to be photographed in this, why do you ask?