* The most recent contest winner is coming over this Friday night for a cookout. Lots of the Illinois “Who’s Who” will also be there. Today’s winner will be offered the same opportunity…

Keep it clean, people. Thanks.

       

146 Comments - 32nd Ward Roscoe Village - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 5:53 am: Excuse me, folks, I can sense a few hairs out of place. You, yes, you, center, pass the quarterback the football. It’s football season everyday in my house. - Nieva - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 5:53 am: Have you heard my version of Jail House Rock?? - Nice kid - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 5:55 am: Would I lie to you? - PublicServant - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 6:19 am: Which way to the slammer? - Res Melius - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 6:28 am: Remember, when you point your finger, there are 4 fingers pointing back at you. Ooops, scratch that. - Son of an Immigrant - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 6:55 am: “Miss me yet?” - Golden Eagle - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 7:00 am: Go ahead, pull my finger. - Gregor - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 7:01 am: Yes, I still run. But the ankle bracelet throws off my rhythm. - Wensicia - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 7:08 am: My appeal will exonerate me just in time to run for president as an independent. Obama is on his way out and I’ll easily beat Perry because my hair is way better than his, thank you very much. - PoliGeek - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 7:08 am: Don’t blame me. I voted for Gary Coleman! - Das Man - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 7:16 am: What - Me Worry? - Aldyth - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 7:17 am: Hey, you were the ones who decided to trade me for Quinn. - StarkCo - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 7:25 am: Yes, I will be the front man for a prison Elvis tribute band. - Newsclown - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 7:26 am: “Yes, If we can work out the telecommuting issues, I would be honored to be the next Cubs manager.” - Sangpol - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 7:36 am: The guy in the next cell stuck his finger in my back and I thought it might be a shiv! - Allen Skillicorn - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 7:38 am: “Go ahead, pull it.” - And I Approved This Message - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 7:38 am: Would you be interested in buying my wedding ring? I’m a little short on cash. - Sangpol - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 7:39 am: Rosty, Walker and George all shared with me that this really makes your bunkmate like you. - Leroy - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 7:44 am: I can count the number of my supporters on this many fingers. - chicagoj - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 7:47 am: “I remember, as the son of an immigrant in Chicago, staying up reading the works of Rudyard Kipling, who wrote, ‘Some die eloquent, pressed to death By the sliding trench as their friends can hear Some die wholly in half a breath. Some–give trouble for half a year. “There is neither Evil nor Good in life Except as the needs of the State ordain.’ I think that about covers it.” - Sangpol - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 7:50 am: Then I spent some time as the wood shop supervisor at Correctional Industries…It’s kinda like being it’s Governor. Wow that blade was sharp! - Sangpol - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 7:59 am: Warden, is that where the Blues Brothers did Jailhouse Rock? - He Makes Ryan Look Like a Saint - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:02 am: So you got rid of me and now have Quinn…..How’s that working out for you? - Don't Worry, Be Happy - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:09 am: fuhgeddaboudit! - Holdingontomywallet - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:09 am: “Here is what I think of all of my critics — drats, I used the wrong finger again!” - just sayin' - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:18 am: This way for the delousing? - Wilson Pickett - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:18 am: Patty said that Rahm and Barack called and are thanking me for my help. They knew that “everything that I did was for the people of Illinois”. Patty said that I can expect to get a note later from Pat Fitzgerald saying that he really admired me and that he was sorry for our misunderstanding. So you see, everyone actually loves and appreciates all that Patty and I have done for the people of Illinois. History will show that. - OneMan - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:22 am: I could have jerked over AFSCME without a tax increase. - OneMan - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:23 am: I challenge Pat Quinn to a ramble off for all the marbles… - Oldguard - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:25 am: I tricked you not once, but twice to vote for me. Who looks foolish now??? - Boone Logan Square - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:27 am: “I Want You - To Bail Me Out” - OneMan - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:30 am: Why yes I have been working on using just my finger to comb my hair - Ghost - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:31 am: Bill, your still my man. - TTWSYF - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:31 am: I dont think Quinn realizes that the Com Ed and casino bills are effin golden. - Observing - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:32 am: I wanted to use the other finger, but I can’t do that until after sentencing. - OneMan - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:33 am: Hey you, why didn’t you tell me about this ’subject to appropriations trick’ - JustaJoe - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:35 am: “Fumigate me…it’s only one…my legacy lives on!” - Anon - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:37 am: At least my approval ratings are still higher than Quinn’s! - Katie Coreitch - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:40 am: “Anyone got some tissue?” - OneMan - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:40 am: Subject to appropriations…in my pants or Subject to appropriations… that’s what she said - Bill - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:41 am: Look at Quinn trying to do what I tried to do…Go Quinn…. Go to jail….. - OneMan - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:45 am: Hey AFSCME how is Quinn workin out for you, hey CTU how is Rahm so far? - PaGo - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:47 am: *I* had a pony! When I was a little boy in Serbia, we all had ponies. My sister had pony, my cousin had pony. So, what’s wrong with that? He was a beautiful pony. And I loved him! - zatoichi - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:48 am: Yeah, I shot that rubber band 15 feet. But then I have always been good at shooting rubber bands. Think you can do better? - And I Approved This Message - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:49 am: The Feds misunderstood me. I said “I’ve got this RING and it’s effin’ golden.” - Bob Sheaveher - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:51 am: “So what? I’ve been fingered. Now it’s my turn.” - Kerfuffle - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:54 am: Let me give you three reasons why I’m not guilty. One…uh what were those three reasons again? - Bring Back Boone's - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:55 am: “As soon as Don retires I’ll be the next co-host with Roma. So before I go to jail, I’ll have an opportunity to remind you every morning that I warned you they’d raise your taxes.” - 41st Ward - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:59 am: Will you marry me? - Casual observer - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 9:00 am: “Let the bidding begin. What’ll you give me for the tie? I hear $10.00 from the fat bald guy in the back. Oh, hi Governor.” - anon sequitor - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 9:02 am: The feds have this country club in Oxford and it is looking freaking golden! - Quacktastic - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 9:03 am: MmmBop. MmmBop. Hanson, let me join, pretty please??? - Champaign Dweller - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 9:06 am: Oh, look–a kitty! - Anonymous - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 9:07 am: How can we go on together with suspicious minds? - foster brooks - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 9:09 am: Sorry cant keep it clean with this character - anonymoose - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 9:09 am: In commeration of 9/11, which brought our nation to tears, I, Rod Blagjoveich, humbly accept this tribute on behalf of the one man who did the same to the State of Illinois….oh, wait a second…. - walter sobchak - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 9:15 am: Of all the cruel blows I have had to endure: Chaz Bono instead of me on Dancing with the Stars?!! - Dooley Dudright - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 9:18 am: A rip on Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias”: ROD BLAGOJEVICH I met a man from Illinois Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the prairie. Near them in the grass, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: `My name is Rod Blagojevich, Governor of Governors: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, verdant and lush, The undulating fields stretch far away”. - SgtSchultz - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 9:24 am: “And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain, my friends, I’ll say it clear, I’ll state my case of which I’m certain…” - soccermom - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 9:25 am: I am the Master of my Fate. I am the Captain of my Soul. And I can still spin a basketball on any finger, right hand or left hand. Including this finger right here. And I look forward to the day I can prove that to the people of Illinois. - Highland, IL - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 9:30 am: Yes, you there in the beard. - wordslinger - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 9:32 am: We were this close to suborning a juror in the second trial. Hand grenades and horse shoes…. - A Naughty Moose - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 9:51 am: Take off the mask, Pat, we know it’s you. - Responsa - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 9:53 am: Hey all you loser people who are schlepping and striving, struggling to make a buck and trying to survive the rat race–it’ll be all relaxation and sunny skies for me in prison. I’ll probably look the same as I do now when I get out. Ha. I guess the joke’s on you. - Meanderthal - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 10:00 am: Ok, so I go to Fon Du Lac and take a left and Oxford is right down the road? Thanks. - Redbird - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 10:01 am: Testicular fortitude is going to be Job One. - 1776 - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 10:07 am: “Pat Quinn…what’s he thinking?” - 1776 - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 10:07 am: You may have taken away free rides from seniors, but I’ll be getting a free ride from the government soon. - Easily Entertained - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 10:08 am: “My fellow citizens I have just sworn before you and God the same oath of office that my predecessors have taken for nearly 200 years … You voted for change: I intend to deliver it. John Fitzgerald Kennedy once said that his biggest surprise upon taking office was learning that things were actually as bad as he had been saying they were… a system of corruption that has been too commonplace, too accepted, and too entrenched… As it is said in the Proverbs, ‘man is filled with good things – as surely as the work of his hands rewards him.’” (R.R.B. Inaugural Speech, 2003) - Spring - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 10:12 am: The former Governor explains why he will not be attending the cookout, “i wasn’t invited, and besides he’s a bad guy.” - Steve Bartin - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 10:12 am: Yeah, I want to go to Terre Haute. George Ryan is going to give me the orientation if sentencing goes my way. I hear they have a good track at the prison, which makes things perfect for me. - unclesam - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 10:13 am: “This is a really hard choice, but I’ll take contestant #3 as my new roomie.” - Esquire - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 10:14 am: Emanuel lost a finger tip working at Arby’s? So what! That’s nothing! I can tough it out! I have been reading the collected works of G. Gordon Liddy! Look, Rahm, three missing fingers! I bit them off myself! Who’s the toughest guy in Chicago’s Fifth Congressional District now? - Ghost - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 10:19 am: Blag: Rich, is that a camera? get that freaking thing away from me… where is my shield wall of kids…. Or Rich, I challenge you to a swear off.. - Dan S, A Taxpayer - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 10:25 am: Protrait of a Theif - mokenavince - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 10:27 am: Me Worry? A Quote By Alferd E. Neuman - LisleMike - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 10:30 am: Listen, 6 fingers is not a sign that I am not like all of you! - JL - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 10:41 am: “I wish I was in a position to do something about this caption contest.” - Easily Entertained - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 10:47 am: “I don’t believe there’s any cloud that hangs over me. I think there’s nothing but sunshine hanging over me.” - Colossus - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 10:56 am: When is the warden gonna take away that toy microphone? All he does, all night long, pretend there’s reporters in front of him. What’s a felon gotta do ta get some SLEEP around here? - Easily Entertained - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 11:12 am: “I did not remain in the Statehouse for the vote on my impeachment because one, had I remained in Springfield, I would have been immediately ineligible to use the state plane as I would no longer be Governor, and two, after spending my entire paycheck on this tie, I would have been stranded in Springfield, with no way home.” - Carl Nyberg - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 11:17 am: If I could have one thing, it would be a movie deal, so the people can see how I helped children and seniors without having my story distorted by political appointees at the Justice Department and a corrupt, cynical media. - bored now - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 11:18 am: do you have a question about my hair? - Commonsense in Illinois - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 11:19 am: “So when I get out, I want you, you…and you to come with me when I open my Cayman accounts so you can write about how I won in the end…” - Springfieldish - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 11:21 am: “See this finger? It’s golden, baby. Freakin golden!” - Springfieldish - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 11:23 am: By the way, nice spelling, Dan. Yeesh! - Plutocrat03 - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 11:25 am: At the risk of dating myself… I believe he is preparing to use the “Himalayan finger” made famous in the ’60s by Harvey Lembeck as Eric Von Zipper. The question is on who? - Earnest - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 11:31 am: I’m good-looking, a brilliant leader and, gosh darn it, people like me. (5 times to the mirror morning and night) - Way Way Down Here - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 11:31 am: Rich’s party is in back - - that way. If you’ll give me your keys I’ll be happy to park your car. - Siyotanka - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 11:34 am: “why yes…yes, I think every Governor should serve two terms…One in office and the other in the slammer”. - John A Logan - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 11:44 am: Rod Blagojevich starts his new career as the official spokesman for the “John Boehner Tan Ointment” - Cincinnatus - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 11:45 am: Ooops, wrong finger! - Because I say so - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 11:58 am: I’ll be baaaaaccckkk. - Poilitical Junkie - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 11:59 am: “Springfield? I think its that way.. - Cuban Pilot - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 12:02 pm: “Fellow citizens, remember this pretty face and remember this beautiful hair, because the next time you see me in public, I will have more wrinkles than George Ryan and less hair than Pat Quinn.” - Lefty Lefty - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 12:02 pm: Is that a tape recorder in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? - Statesman - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 12:05 pm: “There are three key things you have to do win an election and screw up a state 1. Get a good campaign finance chair- Harris where are you? 2. Get a good bagman- Juan Ochoa- you out there? 3….Be f’n golden!” - ZZ is Tops - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 12:12 pm: “…and thats why I switched to the volumizing hairspray.” Okay, next question. Yes, from the guy waving a check. - Way Way Down Here - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 12:14 pm: Bill Cellini? Yeah, he’s seated right over there. - shore - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 12:17 pm: B-Rod wants YOU to read capitolfax. It’s #@*^($#@ golden. - 47th Ward - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 12:23 pm: “What you lookin’ at? You all a bunch of bleeping bleeps. You know why? You don’t have the guts to be what you wanna be. You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your bleeping fingers and say, “That’s the bad guy.” So… what that make you? Good? You’re not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don’t have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy!” - mookie's da - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 12:24 pm: I came “this close” to telling the truth on the witness stand. - matt jones - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 12:26 pm: “You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin’ to? You talkin’ to me? Well I’m the only one here. Who the *&#@ do you think you’re talking to?” - Joe from Joliet - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 12:32 pm: After my sentencing, you won’t have this hairdo to kick around for quite a while. - Just Because - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 12:35 pm: Read My Lips I am not a theif! - aufjunk - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 12:37 pm: If I were bleeping Pinocchio, my bleeping nose would be out to bleeping here! And I bleeping got away with it for six bleeping years! I’m bleeping golden! - Newsclown - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 12:40 pm: “Jay Hoffman Campaign Spokesman spot, take one… Hi, I’m Rod Blagojevich, asking yo to vote for my Very Good Friend, my Best Friend, and close confidant and political partner, Jay Hoffman, for… why is the camera not rolling? Is there a technical problem? Jay, Buddy, does my hair look okay? Jay? Where ya goin’, Jay? You said our destinies were linked, I’m just helping out my closest associate in the Illinois House… remember how we used to prank-call Madigan’s private line every night? Jay, you’re killing me, where ya going, Jay? Your envelope is still onthe table! ……Jay?????…..” - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 12:44 pm: “… and then Juror #9 looked right at me … coldly … then pointed, just like this, and said to Juror #10, ‘Hey look, it’s Mayor Daley.” - JBilla - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 12:50 pm: That guy did it. Pay no attention to my thumb. - Dizzy Cow - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 12:56 pm: “Then you just pinch the head off and boom cleaned shrimp. I really hope I can get some kitchen work in the joint. Then I can open a restaurant like that Gordon Ramsey.” - JBilla - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 12:58 pm: I pointed in his general direction, but I didn’t point directly at him. My finger was thinking out loud, it wasn’t pointing. Everybody else was pointing their fingers. I ran a marathon really fast. I gave your Grandma a free ride on the CTA! - A.B. - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 1:09 pm: They say I can have tubes of hair product about this big…so please send them in care packages! - Anonymour - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 1:09 pm: What do I think about my sentencing? Today is an up day! - JoePeoria - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 1:10 pm: Yes, this is it….the finger that I use to type on a computer keyboard. - Its Just Me - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 1:13 pm: “And then I pointed to Donald Trump and I said, ‘I’m not fired. You’re fired.’” - Lulabell - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 1:33 pm: Is this the right finger to tell you how I really feel? I tend to get confused easily like that whole silly misunderstanding about the Senate seat…. - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 1:41 pm: “Hey … HEY! Are you the Special Agent that was at the door that morning? NO, not YOU … HIM … yeah, you! No? Oh, … you were the guy who took my mug shot, my mistake… Hey, how are you …” - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 1:48 pm: “. … And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois and federal law enforcement community that have chosen to join us here in the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time…” - Small Town Liberal - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 1:52 pm: You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it’s me, I’m a little messed up maybe, but I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m an Illinois governor, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I’m here to bleepin’ amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny? - Anonymous - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 1:59 pm: And then I said, “No, honey, I am not Mayor Daley. He is right over there, waiting, and it’s torturing him.” - Hunterdon - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 2:00 pm: “After they made fun of me on that TV show, I’ve been spending the time before my sentencing finally learning how to use a laptop. I can type now with just these two fingers!” - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 2:22 pm: “I’ll take one more question, lie, then leave hurriedly out the back to avoid everyone … yes, Rich Miller, go ahead …” - Pot calling kettle - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 2:23 pm: The former Governor decided to go with his strengths and opened an auction house. - Anonymous - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 2:50 pm: So, you’re “Bill”? Really !? - zatoichi - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 2:54 pm: Rod tries a modified Rahm salute. - VanillaMan - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 2:59 pm: Patti told me I will be going to a farm where I would be much happier. I will have lots of room to run and lots of fresh air and I get to play ball and chase rabbits. That’s not jail, it is an extended farm holiday! - RFR - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 3:24 pm: Rod Blagojevich submits his head shot in the hopes Fox will revive the TV series “Prison Break,” starring himself. - Colossus - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 3:36 pm: @Oswego Willy Props. Nice to see the Brothers getting some airtime. - Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 3:39 pm: Thanks Colossus, Can’t go wrong w/ Jake and Elwood Blues … - 3rd Generation Chicago Native - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 3:56 pm: Rich Miller posted another picture of me on his Caption contest when I saw him I tried to grab him but he got out of my pinchers. - Captain Illini - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 4:22 pm: The only more recognizable face than this one is the duck on the AFLAC commercials…What?…of course I’m not a duck!… - dumb ol' country boy - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 4:35 pm: “Let me ask you one question: Are you with me? Or am I. By. My. Self!” - railrat - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 4:58 pm: Its OK I got a #150 Card ! - Anonymous - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 5:01 pm: Inspired by being on Donald Trump’s hit show The Apprentice (and by Trump’s hair), Blago practices the “you’re fired” line in the mirror. - Bill from Geneseo - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 5:13 pm: Did I mention I was able to get free mammograms for those of you who cannot afford it. - Because I say so..... - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 5:35 pm: I’m only going to say this once. Enough already with the “oh look-a Kitty!” - DRB - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 6:16 pm: You talkin’ to me? - Snj - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 6:24 pm: ♫..and it’s one for the money…two for the show… - jake - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 7:08 pm: “And may I say, not in a shy way, Oh no, oh no, not me, I did it my way.” (apologies to Frankie–but whatever else you say about Rod, he is unique and he did do it his way.) - Cuban Pilot - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 7:54 pm: “I think I have given, as good as I have taken. I leave you gentlemen now, and you will now write it and you will interprete it. That is your right. As I leave you, I want you to know, just think how much you are going to be missing, you won’t have Blago to kick around anymore because gentlemen this is my last press conference as I will now spend the rest of my real life as a guest of the Bureau of Prisons.” “You won’t have blago to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen this is my final press conference before I get to spend the rest of my life under the care of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. However, before I get the opportunity to spend my remaining years as the free guest of the federal government, I wish you to know the secret to my ability to proclaim a “up day” in the - Cuban Pilot - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 7:58 pm: Good concept, but bad execution (kinda like Quinn, or even more still, President Obama). What I wanted to say was, “I think I have given, as good as I have taken. I leave you gentlemen now, and you will now write it and you will interprete it. That is your right. As I leave you, I want you to know, just think how much you are going to be missing, you won’t have Blago to kick around anymore because gentlemen this is my last press conference as I will now spend the rest of my real life as a guest of the Bureau of Prisons.” - Laura - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:09 pm: “What, my 15 minutes is up?” - Quizzical - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 8:12 pm: That’s right, I said probation. Judge Zagel loves me. I heard that his favorite uncle was a runner and Elvis fan, so once I drop some lines to make the connection, there’s no way he will send me away. - bullet53 - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 10:13 pm: tony resko come on down !!!! and play the price is right. - ah HA - Wednesday, Sep 7, 11 @ 10:41 pm: I must POINT out to you how doggone handsome I am. - Northern View - Thursday, Sep 8, 11 @ 2:54 am: That Barack is getting what he had coming to him! 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