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Quinn enters YouTube history
Friday, Feb 3, 2012 - Posted by Rich Miller * As we’ll soon see, Gov. Pat Quinn took the “Cinnamon Challenge” today. Yeah, I had no idea what that was, either, until I Googled it. Oh, these kids today…
Click here for a handy YouTube search. Kinda weird. * Anyway, Quinn was on the Jonathon Brandmeier show today and the host convinced the governor to take the challenge. Quinn may have agreed because Brandmeier loves him and gushes all over him whenever he’s on the show. As you might imagine, he doesn’t get that much. Let’s hope Brandmeier doesn’t ask Quinn to jump off the Tribune Tower roof next time he’s on the show. * Listen to the whole show. Funny stuff… …Adding… Quinn’s press staff says the governor stopped for breakfast at Starbucks after the show and was “good to go.”
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- Irish - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 1:20 pm:
Wow!! We finally found out what he is good for.
- TCB - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 1:22 pm:
Im pretty sure he cheated though….I think you’re supposed to show that your mouth is empty & that the cinnamon is gone before you are allowed to take a drink of water.
- Rich Miller - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 1:24 pm:
TCB, since he didn’t know the rules, he didn’t cheat.
- Rich Miller - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 1:30 pm:
A dreamer of pictures
I run in the night
You see us together,
chasing the moonlight,
My cinnamon guv.
http://youtu.be/a6lpbKOCckM
- Pot calling kettle - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 1:34 pm:
Madigan better watch out!
- Small Town Liberal - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 1:36 pm:
If only he could have done this in an election year the college vote would have been out in droves.
- Jake From Elwood - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 1:40 pm:
One would think that Nutmeg would have been more appropriate.
- formerpolitico - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 1:45 pm:
This episode proves once again the old adage: “Better to be thought a fool and remain quiet, than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt!”
- MKA1985 - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 1:48 pm:
This post just made my day – maybe my week. Especially Rich’s Neil Young parody.
- Irish - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 1:54 pm:
Sneakin down hallway
And knockin’ on your door
Thought I had the votes but I’m back for more
Cinnamon let me in
Knock, knock, let me in
I won’t go away
Oh, uh, uh
I’m gonna see ya
If it takes all day
Oh, uh uh
Cinnamon let me in
She la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la la, la, la, la
One potato two potato
Three potato, four
In 2014, I’m goin for 4 more
Five potato, six potato
Seven potato eight
I’m hoping Madigan
Is gone from the State
I can’t win here
None will come near
They’ll do what they want to
Nothing will pass through
Might as well face it
I’m really in deep $%^#
She la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la la, la, la, la
She la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la la, la, la, la
- OneMan - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 1:59 pm:
Have to give him props for acting like it was no big deal and even tossing a Quinnisum out after he ate it.
- OneMan - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 2:01 pm:
Tune in for next weeks adventure with Judy, Jimmy and the Cinnamon Governor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cinnamon_Bear
- OneMan - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 2:06 pm:
Jimmy Madigan has to go to Maybe land to find a away to keep the state running along the way he realizes the Cinnamon Governor has to come along to help..
The Cinnamon Governor hasn’t always been Jimmy Madigan’s favorite, every time Jimmy gets close to finding an answer it seems the Cinnamon Governor does something that ruins Jimmy’s plan.
But as they go into Maybe land and deal with Tommy the Cross and the river of No they all end up happy at the end
- soccermom - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 2:14 pm:
Love PQ, love Brandmeier.
- Peter Snarker - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 2:22 pm:
Rich, “Cinnamon Guv” lyrics…
Ma send me money… We’ll make it somehow”
- Michelle Flaherty - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 2:23 pm:
Up next is the milk challenge.
Go SoyBoy!
- Jake From Elwood - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 2:36 pm:
Where is Vanilla Man’s contribution on this pressing spice-related issue?
- mokenavince - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 2:37 pm:
I needed a good laugh. Funny stuff. Quinn missed
his calling.
- Jak Tichenor - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 2:37 pm:
It’s funny, but I was just telling someone this morning about how Governor Thompson’s advance guy Jim Skilbeck once huffed helium on one of our live radio remotes from the DuQuoin State Fair back in the ’80s. Can’t say anymore about what else happened back then because I’m not sure the statute of limitations has expired.
- OneMan - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 2:47 pm:
The Spice Girls Announce First Male Member
Soy Spice
- dupage dan - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 2:54 pm:
Gotta like that Pat. Not happy with his turn at govshp but he is a far sight better than his predecessor at the human interest side of things.
- OneMan - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 3:01 pm:
Why do I suspect this phone call is being placed..
Johnny, it’s Mike Madigan, huge fan… But let me get to the point, how do you get Pat Quinn to do what you want him to do?
Seriously, you want a state park named after you? Tell me how you do it…
- Tom B. - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 3:29 pm:
A spoonful of cinnamon? When I was in highschool, my friends did whole shakers full of pepper, cheese, and red pepper flakes. In college it was whole potatoes (cooked) dry, jars of mayonase and 2 gallon jugs of gatorade.
Those were challenges. This is kids play.
- Michelle Flaherty - Friday, Feb 3, 12 @ 3:51 pm:
OneMan, the first question the Speaker is going to ask is: what is this thing called cinnamon.
as for Quinn, I would imagine he’ll demand a full “Fear Factor” format to the 2014 gov debates.
Teaspoon of cinnamon
Eat a pound of earthworms
bungee from inside the Thompson Center.
This guy will do anything to be governor.
On the other hand, today’s success is perhaps the first actual accomplishment of the Quinn Administration.