“Okay… now listen up — because this is the very last time I’m saying this: You can not balance your state’s budget by using my pot o’ gold or my magical Lucky Charms. Now are there any other questions?”
“Yeah … I have had fun … I went to Bridgeport yesterday, but was thrown out because I wasn’t ‘Irish’ enough … go figure.”
- Kasich Walker, Jr. - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:18 am:
A vote for Kevin Burns is a vote for the FRICKIN’ IRISH!
(Just listened to the bit posted yesterday. Assuming Burns has his info correct on check presentation ceremonies attended by Chris Lauzen, those comments of Burns were cutting.)
Ok, if you use the Internet here in Illinois for business, you get to pay a tax. Might want to try that hook back home”.
“If Ireland looks to get out of the Euro, how about hooking up with Illinois to start our own currency?”
“14% unemployment? IMF Austerity plan? 20% cut in GDP over 7 years? Average 43% loss in value of housing since 2007? You think you got troubles? We’ve got PAT QUINN as Governor. Top that!”.
“Jaysus, when I met your Speaker I thought, now how can this guy be Irish and be so tightly wound and then he explained his mother was German and it made more sense. Hey, if he’s German, ask him for a loan - it works for us.”
- PublicServant - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 8:53 am:
“I love the State Senate of Illinois. We have so much in common: We love the sauce, and we budget similarly.”
- Aaron - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 8:58 am:
“We might be PIIGS, but at least we’re not Welsh sheep.”
- Pot calling kettle - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:03 am:
“I think you have more Irishmen running your state than we have running our country!”
- Boone Logan Square - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:07 am:
“Keep talking! It’s so nice to hear someone tell the media about catastrophic financial problems that make Illinois look solvent!”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:08 am:
“An Irishman walks into a bar …”
“You don’t look Irish …”
“You may not understand me, I said, ‘Erin Go Braugh’ … not what YOU said …”
“To the Senate GOP, I know what it’s like to be stuck on an island.”
“Lordy me, a Leprechan … oh … Sorry Speaker Madigan.”
“I wish I knew how St. Patrick got the snakes out of Ireland, and ‘no’ I can’t hep with that here…”
“No, it’s not a line, that’s my shillelagh!”
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:09 am:
Two leaders of states run by the Irish meet to discuss maintaining power.
- What planet is he from again? - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:10 am:
“Watch as I pull a rabbit out of my hat….HEY! What’s he doing in there??”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:11 am:
“You’re from Chicago … what an accent!”
- MrJM - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:13 am:
“Okay… now listen up — because this is the very last time I’m saying this: You can not balance your state’s budget by using my pot o’ gold or my magical Lucky Charms. Now are there any other questions?”
– MrJM
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:15 am:
“William Wallace was Scottish … “
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:18 am:
“Yeah … I have had fun … I went to Bridgeport yesterday, but was thrown out because I wasn’t ‘Irish’ enough … go figure.”
- Kasich Walker, Jr. - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:18 am:
A vote for Kevin Burns is a vote for the FRICKIN’ IRISH!
(Just listened to the bit posted yesterday. Assuming Burns has his info correct on check presentation ceremonies attended by Chris Lauzen, those comments of Burns were cutting.)
- OneMan - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:19 am:
President Cullerton smiles as the envoy shares his story of how he was able to talk Governor Quinn into giving up his purple tie.
- Judgment Day - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:22 am:
Ok, if you use the Internet here in Illinois for business, you get to pay a tax. Might want to try that hook back home”.
“If Ireland looks to get out of the Euro, how about hooking up with Illinois to start our own currency?”
“14% unemployment? IMF Austerity plan? 20% cut in GDP over 7 years? Average 43% loss in value of housing since 2007? You think you got troubles? We’ve got PAT QUINN as Governor. Top that!”.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:22 am:
“Again, Sean Connery … Scottish … “
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:26 am:
“Catherine Zeta-Jones is Welch! … Wallace, Connery, Zeta-Jones … do you people know ANY Irishmen?”
- Kasich Walker, Jr. - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:31 am:
Though I found out decades ago, I was surprised to learn that Martin Carthy is neither Irish nor Scottish, but a Brit.
- Cheswick - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:34 am:
Cullerton and the Irish Envoy audition for Riverdance.
- Cheswick - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:35 am:
Irish Envoy #coolbandname
- Meanderthal - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:38 am:
I agree with Madigan. Governor Quinn is a disgrace to the Irish!
- Don't Worry About the Government - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:43 am:
An té a luíonn le madaí, eiroidh sé le dearnaid.
- zatoichi - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:45 am:
Ehh, pints for all over at Boones!
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:47 am:
Winners of the Jonathan Pryce and Wallace Shawn Look-alike Contests aceept their awards.
- Lazy Intern - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:49 am:
The British include the English, the Welsh, the Scots and the Irish.
- Kasich Walker, Jr. - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 9:52 am:
@ Lazy Intern: just don’t tell the Welsh, Scots, & the Irish.
- Team Sleep - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 10:01 am:
“Come for the blarney. Stay for the baloney.”
- MartyMcGuinness - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 10:12 am:
Cullerton looks on as the envoy explains dyeing a river, drinking green bud light, & wearing plastic green bowlers doesn’t make you ‘feckin’ Irish’.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 10:21 am:
“I am not going to be in town for the ‘South Side Irish Parade’, my protection services feel it’s not the safest place …”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 10:28 am:
“Springfield reminds of … ‘Brigadoon’, actually”
- Ghost of John Brown - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 10:33 am:
Senator Cullerton looks on while the Irish Envoy performs “The Chicken Dance”
“You put your right hand in, you pull your right hand out……….” everyone sing.
(ha - you guys are going to have the Chicken Dance playing in your head now)
- Stuff happens - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 10:43 am:
Clearly Illinois didn’t take our pot o’ gold!
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 10:44 am:
“I am actually a huge Michigan fan …”
- Stuff happens - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 10:46 am:
Or…
Illinois stole my pot o’ gold and didn’t put it back. That was our retirement!
- 3rd Generation Chicago Native - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 11:01 am:
I can’t decide which South South Irish parade to go to this year, Tinley Park or Beverly, let’s take a vote!
- Downstate commissioner - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 11:31 am:
“Mr. Cullerton said he would buy all of the beer I wanted, but I don’t drink alcohol.”
- just sayin' - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 11:57 am:
What politician you gotta pay to get a drink around here?
- Cook County Commoner - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 12:14 pm:
I don’t know what Jonnny Boy is smiling about. Illinois makes Ireland look successful. I’ll say a prayer for all of you.
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 12:32 pm:
Kirk and Brown promised us 10,000 jobs. Now if we could get another 5,000 from each of you, we’d be in rollin’ in four leaf clover. Thank you!
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 12:58 pm:
The Chicago Spire project is NOT dead. And if you could chip in a few dollars to help with the foreclosure on 1416 N. Astor, too, we’d be grateful!
- O'Jake From Elwood - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 1:32 pm:
I will not take the bait to besmirtch my own people. Slainte, Mr. Croin and President Cullerton!
- Phocion - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 1:42 pm:
Gandalf shows off his new metrosexual look at a meeting in the Shire while Bilbo Baggins looks on approvingly.
- Mr. Know-it-All - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 1:50 pm:
Blimey, you people elected a leprechaun to the Senate?!?!
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 2:08 pm:
An age-regressed John Cleese look-alike and an age-progressed Rowan Atkinson look-alike reenact Mayor Daley’s Sweet Beginnings Press Conference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4j-nULUY1s
- TDPurcell - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 2:40 pm:
An Irishman walks into the Illinois Senate and up to President Cullerton….
“Ah there bar keep, I’ll have a cold one.”
“I welcome to the Senate chambers, but we are not a bar.”
“Well the laddie, why are ya all spendin mooney like a bunch of durnkards?”
- Irish - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 2:45 pm:
“Yes, Irish diplomacy is the ability to tell someone to go to h$^* in a way that they look forward to taking the trip.”
” I spoke to your Guvnor yesterday and they tell me he was on the phone to Orbitz first thing this morning.”
- Happy-go-lucky Irish - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 3:57 pm:
“Jaysus, when I met your Speaker I thought, now how can this guy be Irish and be so tightly wound and then he explained his mother was German and it made more sense. Hey, if he’s German, ask him for a loan - it works for us.”
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 11:13 pm:
=Blimey, you people elected a leprechaun to the Senate?!?!=
Thread winner! (Probably inaccurate, but still the thread winner.)
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Feb 8, 12 @ 11:33 pm:
Caption: Ireland’s secret weapon.
Alrighty then!