Question of the day
Friday, Sep 2, 2011 - Posted by Rich Miller
* The setup…
From silk plants to pant suits, costume jewelry to collectible clowns, the very things often identified with former Cicero Town President Betty Loren-Maltese are up for sale.
The ex-convict says she will wheel and deal at a garage sale at a friend’s house in west suburban Forest View the next three days as she sells off decades of stuff she had in her home or her Cicero office. Included are make-up mirrors, a singing bass plaque and more costume earrings than Imelda Marcos had shoes–at just $1.50 a pair.
* The Question: What else might you expect to find at Betty’s garage sale?
Snark is heavily encouraged, of course.
- Hank - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 9:01 am:
What else might you expect to find at Betty’s garage sale? …Blago?
- Baines 4 Prez - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 9:02 am:
Costco sized eyeshadow containers. Quick, get a lifetime supply ladies!
- anonymoose - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 9:03 am:
An assortment of her late husband’s fine neckware…called “Alleged Mob Ties.”
- Stones - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 9:05 am:
Is it legal to sell previously opened and slightly used makeup?
- reformer - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 9:06 am:
* A Fast Eddie bobblehead
* Dozens of elephants, which, like the bobblehead, reminds our GOP friends they live in glass houses.
- bored now - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 9:08 am:
republican’s family values???
- WhyMe - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 9:11 am:
Jimmy Hoffa
- JustMe - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 9:19 am:
The bags of cash from yesterday’s QOTD.
- dupage dan - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 9:21 am:
Judy Barr Topinka
- sal-says - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 9:25 am:
Jimmy Hoffa as the Garage Sale cashier?
- Skeeter - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 9:30 am:
A shred of dignity — still unused and in the original container!
- zatoichi - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 9:32 am:
Plastic covered furniture and large white/gold tinged, tiger claw legged lamps with 3′ high fringed shades plus extra large, brown glass ashtrays.
- Anonymour - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 9:36 am:
Deluxe VHS edition of the Godfather trilogy.
- JakeCP - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 9:38 am:
Her 80’s styled wigs!
- just sayin' - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 9:39 am:
duPage dan beat me to it.
Judy Baar Topinka is the definitive answer.
- wordslinger - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 9:43 am:
Fast Eddie’s puppet strings.
- Justice - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 9:45 am:
A goat….taken from the Feds.
- walkinfool - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 9:47 am:
video gambling machines
- Cincinnatus - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 9:57 am:
Redi-Mix® Concrete Louboutins
- CircularFiringSquad - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 10:03 am:
How about DandyDan’s time sheets..or did they hit the Illinois Policy Institute shredder already
Or the Fast Eddie/Dandy Dan bar tabs
- Because I say so - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 10:05 am:
=dupage dan - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 9:21 am:
Judy Barr Topinka=
That one made me laugh out loud!!
- Nearly Normal - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 10:11 am:
A book on Ethics still in its shrink-wrap.
- Wensicia - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 10:23 am:
A vintage monopoly game with 10K gold, oversized game pieces that double as earrings when not being used for play.
WARNING: All “Get Out of Jail, Free” cards are missing. They were confiscated when Betty tried to use them in prison.
- Boone Logan Square - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 10:27 am:
“Clowns for sale” is a most appropriate slogan for this Cicero enterprise.
- Ghost - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 10:54 am:
construction contracts…
- mokenavince - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 11:13 am:
Quinn looking for a new pair of pants to go with the shoes.
- Irish - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 11:44 am:
Betty’s Sale - picture a long line of limousines parked all around the house with city tags from Cicero, Chicago, and Springfield. And a whole bunch of suits all asking, “Are any of her journals/diaries/address books for sale?”
- Demoralized - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 11:47 am:
Town of Cicero employees?
- wishbone - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 12:45 pm:
Clueless neighbors making excuses for this convicted criminal. Oh, that’s what’s actually happening.
- Jake From Elwood - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 1:04 pm:
You won’t find any ghost payrollers…they will stay at home.
- too obvious - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 1:22 pm:
Because I say so - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 10:05 am:
=dupage dan - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 9:21 am:
Judy Barr Topinka=
That one made me laugh out loud!!
Funny because it’s true.
- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 1:45 pm:
A manual on how to position yourself, family, and friends for governmment contracts, jobs, pensions, and other goodies published under the title “Gifts from Santa”.
- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 2:06 pm:
First draft of an autobigraphy entitled “Just A Poorr Little Girl Working Her Way Up To The Top…Anyway She Can”.
- dupage dan - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 3:19 pm:
Yeah, Judy is the garage sale queen of Chicago. Co-workers of mine have bumped into her @ garage sales all over the place. She is a keen shopper.
- jt - Friday, Sep 2, 11 @ 4:00 pm:
Nothing, because I’m not going.