“I am still ‘undecided’, but my family loves your Ice Cream, Senator…”
- Small Town Liberal - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:18 am:
“Doc says I have to switch to olive oil for my ticker, dang Obama coming after my french fries, glad to see you still support traditional family values Senator.”
“No,…I don’t think we are related , Mr. Lard … I know what the sign says, I know …it’s ‘Dil-Lard’, not ‘D’ and then ‘Lard’… I know, I can read sir …No, I like your name, Mr. Lard, and I am sure you got picked on … Yes, 77 years is a long time to have the name ‘Lard’ … again, no, I am ‘Dil-Lard’… no, no one made fun of ‘Dillard’ … How about this, I will check if we are related and get back to you … and take as many of the signs as you want, even all of them …again, sorry …it’s ‘Dil-Lard’…”
Think I’m going down to the well tonight and I’m gonna drink till I get my fill
And I hope when I get old I don’t sit around thinking about it, but I probably will
Yeah just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of
Well but time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister but boring stories of
Glory days
Yeah they’ll pass you by, glory days
In the wink of a young girl’s eye, glory days
Glory days
(Well the title or chorus would be an ok caption, but the verse seemed to fit, too.)
“Senator … I got one of them ‘e’-lectronic mail things from you about today, and I am sure glad to be here. You said in it ‘if there was anythng you could do to hlp’ … well, I need someone to dust my crops, and you got there a pretty plane, flyin’ all over, so I was thinking …”
It is starting to seem that running for Governor is like running for Ugliest Man on Campus. It used to be that the John Edwards look was a political advantage. Now it is the opposite. The less you look like a blow-dried TV news anchor, the better.
Serious question… Are color blind people unable to tell the difference between orange and blue? Or is it a form of dyslexia that hinders the ability to read words with different colored letters? Why are some people losing their minds over these signs?
Rail Sitter–I think that the problem you alluded to is that the colors of the letters should have been reversed so that the IL for Illinois prominently sticks out not LARD. I actually kind of like the concept but the execution not so much.
Rail Sitter — yeah, everybody on this blog is colorblind. None of us has any experience in signage, or branding, or anything related to campaigns. We have never had to deal with the embarrassment of a step and repeat backdrop that, in the right closeup, seems to include a dirty word. We have never put up white-background yard signs that vanished against the backdrop of a January blizzard. We are all just big icky worms who don’t like Dillard.
Make sure you remind all of your hick friends that Bruce Rauner is really a Chicago Democrat. But you didn’t hear that from me. By the way, I worked for Jim Edgar.
Sen. Dillard meeting with an official from the department of health:
Official: Sen. Dillard I’m here because you failed to list the nutritional ingredients in your advertising.
Dillard: I assure you there is no cholesterol, transfats or saturated fat in my campaign. I am running for Governor of Illinois. Lard is the last for letters of my name. I’m Dillard, Dillard.
Official: Dill Lard, sounds pretty strange to me. Who would want to fry a chicken in that ?
Dillard: No, no I’m not cooking here. That is my campaign sign, Dillard for Governor. We’re not frying anything.
Railsitter, it’s just basic typography. Designers go to school for that.
Keep in mind, the concept needs to work across all media; billboards, when you’re flying by at 75 mph; yard signs at night; backdrops; stationary; TV, etc.
The goal is an attractive, quick, easy and clean read; not something that makes you pause.
It’s a first-day-in-class mistake, easily corrected.
I designed the yard signs several years ago for my brother’s municipal race in Texas. They were gorgeous, with a big Texas star on them. Unfortunately, the first letter in Doug’s last name was on the star, and at night, you couldn’t see it. So it looked like “iller” was running for office.
Not a caption but I hate hate hate those Republican flag pins that put an elephant on the flag.
If you’re going to go to the effort of wearing a flag pin to show your patriotism, fine.
If you’re going to put on a flag pin that superimposes your party’s symbol over the flag, you are the opposite of a patriot and you’ve defeated the whole purpose of wearing a flag pin.
“Rauner? No he’s a democrat. No Brady is not running again. Rutherford? No he’s still running for treasurer…Oh I’m sorry I was day dreaming, you were saying?”
- Nickypiii - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:01 am:
The new Faces of the Republican party!
- Mokenavince - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:02 am:
Now we know Dillard is one word not two.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:03 am:
“Good question ..I don’t know who designed my signage …”
“Kirk, Lisa made an announcement too, and the press seems to be leaving …”
“Senator, how do you think Governor Edgar is going to do against Ms. Netsch?”
- Norseman - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:03 am:
I’ll take a jar of that D Lard stuff.
- Ahoy! - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:04 am:
Dillard talks to the one demographic that supports Republicans.
- Stones - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:05 am:
“Listen Sonny, when it comes to political signs use the KISS theory…Keep It Simple, Stupid!”
- anon - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:06 am:
In the voice of Tommy Boy: “It doesnt really hurt here, or here, but right here it really hurts.”
- Keyrock - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:06 am:
Now I get it. Dillard is a Democrat who is for old-style pork in Illinois.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:07 am:
“Good to see you again, Dan …where is that ‘Pongee’ you drive around in?”
- wordslinger - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:10 am:
“No, this is not the Cooking with Lard class.”
- Arthur Andersen - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:11 am:
“Well, Bruce, you don’t look a bit like your TV ads.”
- Nearly Normal - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:12 am:
We put the Old in the Grand Old Party!
- BentheDem - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:13 am:
“At this month’s meeting of the Illinois Young Republicans…”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:13 am:
“I am still ‘undecided’, but my family loves your Ice Cream, Senator…”
- Small Town Liberal - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:18 am:
“Doc says I have to switch to olive oil for my ticker, dang Obama coming after my french fries, glad to see you still support traditional family values Senator.”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:19 am:
“No,…I don’t think we are related , Mr. Lard … I know what the sign says, I know …it’s ‘Dil-Lard’, not ‘D’ and then ‘Lard’… I know, I can read sir …No, I like your name, Mr. Lard, and I am sure you got picked on … Yes, 77 years is a long time to have the name ‘Lard’ … again, no, I am ‘Dil-Lard’… no, no one made fun of ‘Dillard’ … How about this, I will check if we are related and get back to you … and take as many of the signs as you want, even all of them …again, sorry …it’s ‘Dil-Lard’…”
- Rich Miller - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:20 am:
“I am the Count. I’ve come to suck your blood. Hahahahahahahah!”
- Jake L - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:20 am:
“it’s Dillard, not dullard”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:24 am:
“How the heck do you all put up with that Pates Phillips in the Senate. Boy, he really burns my coffee …”
- AFSCME Steward - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:24 am:
Old white man, older white man.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:26 am:
“Senator Dillard, are you running for Governor of the Illinois, or of ‘Chicago’, ’cause we are done with ‘Chicago’ …”
- Keyrock - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:27 am:
Think I’m going down to the well tonight and I’m gonna drink till I get my fill
And I hope when I get old I don’t sit around thinking about it, but I probably will
Yeah just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of
Well but time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister but boring stories of
Glory days
Yeah they’ll pass you by, glory days
In the wink of a young girl’s eye, glory days
Glory days
(Well the title or chorus would be an ok caption, but the verse seemed to fit, too.)
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:29 am:
“Senator Dillard, I like ya, I do …just wish you would cut that ‘Hippie Hair’ you have, why do you have to have it so long …?”
- RCG - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:29 am:
Nearly Normal has the best comment …
- William j Kelly - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:33 am:
Old man “I remember when there was an Illinois Republican Party.” Dillard ” me too…. Meeeee too”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:37 am:
“Senator … I got one of them ‘e’-lectronic mail things from you about today, and I am sure glad to be here. You said in it ‘if there was anythng you could do to hlp’ … well, I need someone to dust my crops, and you got there a pretty plane, flyin’ all over, so I was thinking …”
- wishbone - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:41 am:
‘Eh?”
- AFSCME Steward - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:46 am:
I was feeling a little peekish, so I takes me a swig of Geritol….
- jake - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:47 am:
A new campaign slogan:
Kirk Dillard–Not just another pretty face!
It is starting to seem that running for Governor is like running for Ugliest Man on Campus. It used to be that the John Edwards look was a political advantage. Now it is the opposite. The less you look like a blow-dried TV news anchor, the better.
- Dan Bureaucrat - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:49 am:
Norseman cracked me up…
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:52 am:
“Kirk, you ‘de-friended’ me on Facebook, what gives?”
- Robert the Bruce - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:54 am:
“So if 193 people write in D Lard, do you think the election commission will give me those votes too?”
- Cook County Commoner - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 9:55 am:
My biggest concern is how much campaign cash will remain after I lose.
- Rail Sitter - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 10:03 am:
Serious question… Are color blind people unable to tell the difference between orange and blue? Or is it a form of dyslexia that hinders the ability to read words with different colored letters? Why are some people losing their minds over these signs?
- dupage dan - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 10:05 am:
“Old man, look at my life, I’m alot like you were…”
- Downstate Illinois - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 10:13 am:
Dullard
- Lt. Guv - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 10:14 am:
“and if elected Governor, I promise when I go to prison each and every license plate I mint will have my name on it - just like these.”
- Soccermom - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 10:17 am:
I am sorry, but when I look at that photo all I see is Lard Lard Lard.
And Dupage Dan — well done.
- Responsa - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 10:19 am:
Rail Sitter–I think that the problem you alluded to is that the colors of the letters should have been reversed so that the IL for Illinois prominently sticks out not LARD. I actually kind of like the concept but the execution not so much.
- too obvious - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 10:21 am:
Senator Dillard tries to explain to 17th Street’s owner why week’s supply of ribs have suddenly gone missing. #busted
- Soccermom - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 10:21 am:
Rail Sitter — yeah, everybody on this blog is colorblind. None of us has any experience in signage, or branding, or anything related to campaigns. We have never had to deal with the embarrassment of a step and repeat backdrop that, in the right closeup, seems to include a dirty word. We have never put up white-background yard signs that vanished against the backdrop of a January blizzard. We are all just big icky worms who don’t like Dillard.
Yup, that’s the ticket.
- yepperdo - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 10:21 am:
“Senator, I was just a young lad when you tried running for Governor the first time. I hope I live to see that happen.”
- Keyrock - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 10:22 am:
The concept is wrong. A quick look — and/or the subconscious message — will always be an Illinois Democrat standing for rendered pork.
- Michelle Flaherty - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 10:23 am:
Jim Rea endorses Dillard?
- too obvious - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 10:25 am:
Kirk Dillard talks politics with president of the Young Republicans club.
- AFSCME Steward - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 10:27 am:
Q: What do you use to deep fry a pickle
A: Dil Lard
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 10:29 am:
- soccermom -,
Awesome response. Well done.
To the Caption,
“Kirk, you wanna jump in the crick off the ‘Route 62 Bridge’ with the rest of my friends to cool off?”
- Joan P. - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 10:30 am:
“I hear the doctors are now saying that lard is good for you!”
- too obvious - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 10:30 am:
Make sure you remind all of your hick friends that Bruce Rauner is really a Chicago Democrat. But you didn’t hear that from me. By the way, I worked for Jim Edgar.
- LisleMike - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 10:45 am:
Kirk: Mr. Roesser, you are the last person I expeced to see here!
- Anon. - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 10:45 am:
soccermom@10:21am ==Yup, that’s the ticket.==
You mean that other guy is our next Lt Gov?
My feeble entry: “Look, it’s Mayor Daley’s brother!”
- Midstate Indy - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 10:47 am:
Ke$ha? Yeah, I was thinking about going, too. I’ll look for ya at the fair on the 17th!
- AFSCME Steward - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 10:54 am:
Sen. Dillard meeting with an official from the department of health:
Official: Sen. Dillard I’m here because you failed to list the nutritional ingredients in your advertising.
Dillard: I assure you there is no cholesterol, transfats or saturated fat in my campaign. I am running for Governor of Illinois. Lard is the last for letters of my name. I’m Dillard, Dillard.
Official: Dill Lard, sounds pretty strange to me. Who would want to fry a chicken in that ?
Dillard: No, no I’m not cooking here. That is my campaign sign, Dillard for Governor. We’re not frying anything.
Official: But it says Lard, clear as day.
- Bill White - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 10:58 am:
The IL GOP mobilizes their “Young Guns”
- wordslinger - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 11:15 am:
Railsitter, it’s just basic typography. Designers go to school for that.
Keep in mind, the concept needs to work across all media; billboards, when you’re flying by at 75 mph; yard signs at night; backdrops; stationary; TV, etc.
The goal is an attractive, quick, easy and clean read; not something that makes you pause.
It’s a first-day-in-class mistake, easily corrected.
- Rich Miller - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 11:17 am:
I designed the yard signs several years ago for my brother’s municipal race in Texas. They were gorgeous, with a big Texas star on them. Unfortunately, the first letter in Doug’s last name was on the star, and at night, you couldn’t see it. So it looked like “iller” was running for office.
Oops.
He did win, though.
- Rich Miller - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 11:21 am:
The star, by the way, was blue and the letters were in red with a white sign background.
I keep one of those signs on my office wall as a reminder: https://capitolfax.com/wp-content/IMG_1216.JPG
- I don't want to live in Teabagistan - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 11:26 am:
Dillard: “Christian Fundamentalists don’t believe you exist”
- zatoichi - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 11:39 am:
Got any sage lard?
- walkinfool - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 11:40 am:
“Back in the day, we…”
- Grandson of Man - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 11:55 am:
“Get out the vote? I can barely get out of my house”
- MrJM - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 12:04 pm:
“Yes, I did hear that Lisa isn’t running… No, I don’t know if she’ll run next time… Do you have any questions not about Lisa Madigan?”
– MrJM
- Grandson of Man - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 12:30 pm:
“Do they have them there voting applications for land lines?”
- Old Shepherd - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 12:50 pm:
“Whut up, dawg?
- hisgirlfriday - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 2:33 pm:
Not a caption but I hate hate hate those Republican flag pins that put an elephant on the flag.
If you’re going to go to the effort of wearing a flag pin to show your patriotism, fine.
If you’re going to put on a flag pin that superimposes your party’s symbol over the flag, you are the opposite of a patriot and you’ve defeated the whole purpose of wearing a flag pin.
- Keyrock - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 2:33 pm:
“No, I’m not a Democrat, and I’m not selling lard. Do you have an original question?”
- Empty Suit - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 2:34 pm:
“Rauner? No he’s a democrat. No Brady is not running again. Rutherford? No he’s still running for treasurer…Oh I’m sorry I was day dreaming, you were saying?”
- Soccermom - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 3:12 pm:
Nicely played, keyrock.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 3:27 pm:
“Kirk, You pal over there… he asked me to tell you that a ‘Ron. Gidwitz.’ just jumped on Bruce Rauner’s campaign … and wants his money… to boot …”
- Arthur Andersen - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 3:39 pm:
“I know you. I saw you on TV..in an ad. You’re Barack Obama!”
- Norseman - Wednesday, Jul 17, 13 @ 4:15 pm:
Ouch AA. LOL