81 Comments - amalia - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 1:49 pm: Lyndon Johnson/Jimmy Carter - 47th Ward - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 1:52 pm: …as well done is to half-baked. - Downstate Illinois - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 1:52 pm: Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd - OneMan - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 1:57 pm: Gene Kelly to Graucho Marx - Captain Illini - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 1:59 pm: Carefully coreographed achievement is to dumb luck - Suburbs - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:00 pm: The obvious one is… The Wizard is to The Scarecrow Or.. Newt Gingrich is to Michelle Bachmann - Pot calling kettle - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:05 pm: John Boehner / Barack Obama - J - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:05 pm: As Machiavelli is to Don Quixote - Pot calling kettle - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:06 pm: The Count / Cookie Monster - Ache El Mencken - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:06 pm: As Machiavelli is to Will Rogers - Pot calling kettle - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:06 pm: granite / pudding - Lakeview - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:07 pm: Henry VIII::The Pope - Michelle Flaherty - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:08 pm: apples/pop rocks - MKA1985 - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:09 pm: Soy :: Boy - Pot calling kettle - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:11 pm: An apple is to a kitten. - Anonymous - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:11 pm: power/truth - Pot calling kettle - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:11 pm: As coal power is to wind power. - spring - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:13 pm: Cellini is to G-Rod - lake county democrat - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:13 pm: Mr. D is to Mick Jagger. - Rich Miller - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:15 pm: lcd, would that be Mr. D as in “Dancing with Mr. D” or would it be Dick Duchossois? - downstate hack - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:16 pm: Puppeteer is to Puppet - OneMan - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:17 pm: Randy Hultgren is to Joe Walsh - Ken in Aurora - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:17 pm: Snidely Whiplash / Dudley Do-Right’s less competent twin brother. - Ha Nice One - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:19 pm: Rupert Murdoch is to Bill Mays - South of Sherman - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:19 pm: Oliver Hardy/Stan Laurel Abbott/Costello Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis - Simon Valentine - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:24 pm: Speaker Michael Madigan is to Gov. Pat Quinn as Vito is to Fredo. - Aurelius - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:26 pm: Speaker Michael Madigan is to Gov. Pat Quinn as J. Edgar Hoover is to Harry Truman. - Pot calling kettle - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:27 pm: As Rumplestiltskin is to Cinderella (this is for anyone who watched “Once Upon a Time” last night) - Cheryl44 - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:28 pm: Off shore oil spill :: aquatic wildlife - Anonymous - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:32 pm: Emperor Palpatine to an Ewok. - Mom - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:38 pm: a bulldozer is to a sand shovel - Luke - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:41 pm: The Emperor is to Darth Vader. - QBRNST - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:42 pm: Hammer is to Anvil. - wordslinger - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:45 pm: …the Velvet Hammer is to the Velvet Fog - MrJM - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:46 pm: As Cancer is to Alzheimer’s? – MrJM - Yellow Dog Democrat - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:48 pm: Rich Miller: Carol Marin - Carl Nyberg - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:52 pm: as order is to chaos? - Carl Nyberg - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 2:56 pm: this is better. Michael Madigan is to Pat Quinn as having a plan is to good intentions. - Former WRMN politics - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 3:01 pm: Ernie Banks it to Vic Roznovsky - QBRNST - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 3:01 pm: Aw, c’mon Rich…I self-censored. - Cheswick - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 3:12 pm: Madigan: A 35 foot cigarette boat with an unknown payload, on full throttle, going round and round, eroding the shores of Lake Springfield. Quinn: An 8 foot dinghy with no paddle, caught in the wake of said cigarette boat. - anon - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 3:28 pm: spit is to drool. - anon sequitor - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 3:30 pm: Diamond to Glass Madigan is as sharp as they come, While Quinn is transparent and easily broken - Cincinnatus - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 3:52 pm: Rock/hard place: between - Wensicia - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 3:54 pm: order :: chaos - Farker - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 3:59 pm: Grandmaster in chess / toddler playing checkers - Doc - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 3:59 pm: email: carrier pigeon - Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 4:11 pm: Speaker Michael Madigan is to Gov. Pat Quinn as Machivelli is to Spongebob Squarepants. - Oswego Willy - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 4:12 pm: Speaker Michael Madigan is to Gov. Pat Quinn as Literature is to Archie Comics. - NW - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 4:20 pm: poison ivy is to a kid - ah HA - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 4:21 pm: Oil and Water - The End Is Near - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 4:27 pm: “. . . as Jeff Skilling is to Tom Skilling.” - Cuban Pilot - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 4:34 pm: as Napoleon is to Colonel Klink - Boone Logan Square - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 4:40 pm: Sammy Hagar::Gary Cherone - Zool - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 4:51 pm: A shark to a blowfish - 1776 - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 5:16 pm: Lou Brock is to Ernie Broglia - siriusly - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 5:50 pm: Yoda is to Jar Jar Binks - Vote Quimby! - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 6:18 pm: as D-Day is to Grenada… - Arthur Andersen - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 6:28 pm: ..as Ferrari as to Yugo. - Arthur Andersen - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 6:28 pm: make that “is to Yugo.” - Arthur Andersen - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 6:33 pm: one more- as Heineken is to Blatz. - mouthy - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 6:37 pm: As Father is to red headed step-son.. - CicularFiringSquad - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 6:58 pm: Capt Fax to ___________(insert any hapless Tribbie) - RichardtheLionHearted - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 6:59 pm: corruption / incompetence - DuPage Dave - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 7:13 pm: …as chess is to checkers (ok not that original but surprised no one else had taken it yet) - Das Man - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 7:14 pm: Tweedledum and Tweedledee - Roadiepig - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 7:36 pm: The Sunday crossword puzzle is to a search-a-word puzzle in a first grader’s Weekly Reader (do school kids have those anymore?) - Sangpol - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 8:20 pm: Machiavelli is to Sling Blade - downstater - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 8:25 pm: salt; wound or shrewd is to naive - KGB - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 9:52 pm: …as butter is to toast. - zatoichi - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 9:54 pm: Moe is to Curly - VanillaMan - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 9:56 pm: Cardiologist is to Chiropractor Garden Hose is to Squirt Gun Stud is to Gelding Wedding Cake is to Twinkie Praying Mantis is to Gadfly Brahm’s Lullaby is to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - my 2 cents - Monday, Nov 14, 11 @ 10:58 pm: cat : mouse - Anonymous - Tuesday, Nov 15, 11 @ 12:58 am: …as Livia Drusilla’s patience is to the Sybil’s frenzied uttering - The People Speak - Tuesday, Nov 15, 11 @ 6:59 am: Villians are to Indiana Jones - MeAgain - Tuesday, Nov 15, 11 @ 7:11 am: Blago/George Ryan - SUE - Tuesday, Nov 15, 11 @ 7:46 am: giant to a dwarf - soccermom - Tuesday, Nov 15, 11 @ 8:33 am: Anon 12:58 — That is some classy. Ave! - Downstate Commisioner - Tuesday, Nov 15, 11 @ 8:41 am: anonymous 12:58- Got it, good one!! J. at 2:05 wins it, in my opinion. - Bonsaso - Tuesday, Nov 15, 11 @ 8:57 am: Alec Baldwin: Stephen Baldwin - Wumpus - Tuesday, Nov 15, 11 @ 9:13 am: Harry:Lloyd Lex Luthor:Bizzaro Superman Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.