|
Caption contest!
Friday, Oct 4, 2013 - Posted by Rich Miller * Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Rauner cuddle up at an awards ceremony last year…  Considering the subject matter, I don’t think I need to offer an incentive today for the funniest comment.
|
 |
|
|
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:07 am:
“Arne Duncan says hello…”
“Sorry about the bathroom at the Ranch. The toilet kept running. I got a little mad. Just send me the bill.”
Bruce Rauner got his trophy… and a nice crystal award too.
- Spliff - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:07 am:
” …. Hold me closer tiny dancer ….”
- OneMan - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:08 am:
Is one of you standing on a box…
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:08 am:
“Oh no, (snicker, snicker) do I have to take a picture with (snicker, snicker) a Republican.”
“Bruce, I took care of ‘dat’ ‘ting’, like I always do.”
“I am having a fundraiser, do I send the invite to Winnetka, or to the Chicago address (snicker, snicker). Smile, Buddy.”
- RNUG - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:09 am:
The Odd Couple
- Montrose - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:09 am:
Spliff stole mine. I really don’t know how you top that.
- wordslinger - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:11 am:
“I will call him….Mini-me.”
- RNUG - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:13 am:
Rahm: We look like Arnold and Danny in Twins … but I’ve still got hair.
- Charlatan Heston - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:15 am:
@ Spliff- Too funny on the Elton John quip….too too funny!
- train111 - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:17 am:
Rahm and Rauner sittin in a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
- DirtNap - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:17 am:
Cleaning coffee off my monitor! Thanks Spliff!!!
- trutheller - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:18 am:
See I am more arrogant, no cheesy practiced photog smile for me!
- Tankr - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:18 am:
Excuse me Rahm, is that your right hand?
- Nearly Normal - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:19 am:
Couple of connivers pose with their crystal key to Superman’s cave. Hope Superman changes the lock!! Not sure they could handle that kind of power.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:20 am:
People are talking, talking ’bout Buddies
“We” hear them whisper, you won’t believe it
They think we’re Buddies kept under cover
“We” just ignore it, but they keep saying
“We” Clout just a little too loud
We stand just a little too close
“We” “give” just a little too much
Maybe they’re seeing something we don’t, Buddy.
Let’s give them something to talk about
Let’s give them something to talk about
Let’s give them something to talk about
How about Dems?
“We” feel so foolish, “We’ve” never noticed
You’d act so cautious
Could you be hiding FOR me?
It took a rumor to make “We” wonder
Now “We’re” convinced that “We’re” fooling no one
Some talk ’bout us every day
Scream ’bout you every night
“We’re” hoping that they ignore “our way”
Now that we know it, let’s really show it, Buddy.
Let’s give them something to talk about
Not a real mystery to figure out
Let’s give them something to talk about
How about Dems, Dems, Dems?
Let’s give them something to talk about Buddy,
Not a real mystery to figure out,
Lets give them something to talk about,
How about Dems?
- Bluefish - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:20 am:
BFFs
- b - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:20 am:
Geppetto presents Pinocchio to the world
- Nearly Normal - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:20 am:
Hold your friends close and your enemies closer?
- Curmudgeon - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:20 am:
“Remember, when I get elected, I get to lead!”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:21 am:
“Bruce, get a print of the picture and send it to City Hall, I sign it for ya.”
“Bruce, Bruce, if by some chance an honest man like yourself has made enemies as you run as a Republican, then they are my enemies too….and then, they are going to fear you.”
“Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me, like run for Governor as a Republican. But until that day, consider our close friendship a gift, like your daughter’s clouting into Payton Prep. Smile …”
- Nearly Normal - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:22 am:
I get the feeling we will be seeing this photo among others during the Republican primary race.
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:23 am:
“Don’t cross me, Bruce. The last winner crossed me, and he got this trophy in his eye…”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:24 am:
“Bill Daley. Won’t see him no more …”
“So Bruce, remind me where your other houses are again? I need a vacation…”
“You just win the Republican Primary, I’ll take care of Pat Quinn…”
- Danray - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:24 am:
“Those aren’t pillows!!!”
- Nearly Normal - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:27 am:
Smile for the camera Little Rahm and remember who gave you that career tip!!
You sure this picture isn’t going to bite in the butt later?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:28 am:
“Don’t get too carried away ‘Shaking up Springfield’, I am working on my list of things I gonna need from ya…”
“Bruce, how many times have I told you, you make the deal; have your wife be the ‘donor’ to the Democrats. Thought we were clear about this?”
“…‘AWillyWord Con$ulting’? Never heard of them. Forget it, just ignore the Bills they send …”
- Earnest - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:29 am:
“You say ‘potato’ and I’ll say ‘potato’ too….”
- Nearly Normal - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:29 am:
Bruce Rauner, ventriloquist extraordinaire, searching for the controls on his lifelike dummy of Rahm.
- Snucka - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:30 am:
“I’m Bill Brady, and I approved this message.”
- ZC - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:30 am:
“Take this crystal to the Arctic, Bruce, and throw it. When you reemerge , you will be SuperRauner, the exact same man but strangely, no one will be able to recognize you.”
- 60611 - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:31 am:
“It feels so unusual to not be wearing my Carhartt jacket.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:32 am:
“Mr. Rauner, after the Mayor, Governor Rendell and then Rich Daley for pictures, then punch and cookies…”
“Excuse me? Who are you, again (snicker, snicker)? Get over here Brucie, you nut! Smile!”
“What is this I hear? You moving back (snicker, snicker) to Winnetka on me? You’re my favorite constituent!”
- Obama's Puppy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:34 am:
Peas in a pod
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:38 am:
“Don’t worry about the voters. Do what I do, do enough to make it in the news and then tell the voters to …oh, … smile …”
“Bruce. Bruce, stop tickling, don’t make me laugh!”
“Bruce, you don’t call me anymore, you don’t write me checks anymore, is it …me?”
- the Other Anonymous - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:39 am:
Cutest plutocrat couple, Illinois H.S. Class of ‘14.
- Wensicia - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:39 am:
“I’m Bruce Rauner and I approve this photo.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:42 am:
“Hey, not too close, Bruce, we have to keep up your Republican credentials.”
“Bruce. Anybody … anybody gives you a hard about being my close friend, you tell them to …oh, smile …”
“After all our time vacationing … and how close we have become …Bruce …I… I …I don’t know how to not endorse you!”
- AFSCME Steward - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:44 am:
After being certain that Rauner was sufficiently distracted by the photographer, Rahm picks his pocket.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:45 am:
@FakeBruceRauner – My Pal. #RanchBuckaroos #TwoOfAKind #OutsidersInsider
@FakeEmanuel – Bruce! What the #$%&! Told you to hide these.
@FakeBruceRauner – Thanks to my favorite Mayor. I am going to shake things up, right after we vacation together. #Hypocrite
- AFSCME Steward - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:49 am:
Rauner presents the “Best Jewish Rodeo Clown in Montana Award” to Rahm
- So. ILL - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:49 am:
“I know it isn’t an Oscar, Bruce, but keep up this act and you’ll take home the top prize some day. Now give us a hug.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:50 am:
@FakeEmanuel – Gee, Thanks Bruce. Now I have to vacation with Dillard, do a business deal with Rutherford, and do a zoning change for Brady to make this all square! #NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished
“Remember Bruce, its’ Chicago Mayor first, Governor of Illinois second. Don’t make that mistake like the others …”
“Bruce, hold me close all you want for the picture, I still won’t pull a Republican ballot in the Primary ….sorry.”
- reformer - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:53 am:
“Even though — as everyone knows — I’m a true-blue Republican, I don’t mind having my picture taken with a friendly Democrat.”
- Edwardsburg - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:54 am:
“The award for Rahm’s favorite Democrat in Republicans’ clothing goes to…”
- wordslinger - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:57 am:
BR: “So, am I the Republican and you’re the Democrat, or is it the other way around?”
RE: “I can never remember.”
- So. ILL - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:58 am:
Rahm and Bruce pose after taking home top prize for dancing a flawless polka at this year’s “Dancing with the Investment Banking Stars.”
- Door gunner - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:59 am:
The long &short of it
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 9:59 am:
@FakeEmanuel - The vacation pictures we have are better …#ClarkGrizwoldCousinEddie
@FakeBruceRauner - I will announce all the other politicians I clout with and vacation with that are Republicans, just to be fair to my good friend Rahm #Crickets
@FakeEmanuel - Next time, I will just send a nice note. Sorry, Buddy …#FoolUsAllShameOnYouPPC
- AFSCME Steward - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:02 am:
After a tough convention floor fight, the Republicrat party unveils its choice for Illinois Governor and Lt Governor.
- Stones - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:04 am:
It looks like some twisted version of “American Gothic”!
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:05 am:
“There is an envelope on your chair. When you return, you will see it’s the Payton Prep Clout List. Last copy. All the others are gone … you’re welcome.”
- hisgirlfriday - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:08 am:
And with this sharp paperweight, we shall cut through the heart of every union in the state.
- Empty Suit - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:12 am:
“Alas I never knew him”
- votecounter - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:12 am:
Can two men share an apartment without driving each other crazy
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:12 am:
“Really, Bruce … you can’t seem to find a Real Republican to be your running mate? I don’t understand it. Get closer, Bruce, I want this for the credenza at City Hall…”
- James the Intolerant - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:16 am:
The haves, and the have mores
- So. ILL - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:17 am:
votecounter - LOL
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:19 am:
Meet Brucie, who’s lived most everywhere,
From Winnetka to Logan Square.
But Rahmie’s only seen the sight.
A Mayor can see from Archer Heights —
What a crazy pair!
But they’re Clouters,
Identical Clouters all the way.
One pair of matching bookends,
“Different” as night and day.
Where Brucies adores a Harley Ride,
The Ballet Russes, and crepe suzette,
Our Rahmie loves to rock and roll,
A hot dog makes him lose control —
What a wild duet!
Still, they’re Clouters,
Identical Clouters and you’ll find,
They laugh alike, they walk alike,
At times they even talk alike —
You can lose your mind,
When Clouters are two of a kind.
- AFSCME Steward - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:22 am:
After a solemn initiation ceremony, Rauner congratulates Rahm’s selection in the secret religious order for multi-millionaires “Global Sh Advoca” and assigns him his code name “AJC”
- Grandson of Man - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:24 am:
“I’m half as tall but twice as smart. My buddy Bruce wants to tear unions down, and I work with them and grab big onvention business away from Indianapolis…
http://www.suntimes.com/22925530-761/work-rule-changes-help-snag-convention-from-indianapolis.html
…and I took his campaign cash.”
- Bemused - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:31 am:
Just me and the Pigmy Pony over by the Dental Floss Bush.
- Ucster - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:33 am:
Rahm and Bruce share some kind of award for wearing the exact same tie.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:34 am:
“Remember Bruce, when you start runnin’ the state like a business, it’s my business, you are just the CEO…”
“This just reminded me, the big picture over the fireplace at the Ranch, we were playing frisbee inside and knocked down. I am going back next week, so I will fix it then. “Fix”, I crack myself up Bruce Ole Boy … smile …”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:36 am:
FakeEmanuel - This is #$%#@! hey, @FakeBruceRauner, I just got an email, no more vacations? Oh, till after the Primary, my bad. #TimingIsEverything
- dupage dan - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:39 am:
Isn’t this a Grant Wood painting?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:39 am:
@FakeEmanuel - FYI, @FakeBruceRauner, I can’t give a Grad speech on the 15th at Rauner Prep. I am giving one at Payton Prep the same day, you got directions to PP for me? #JustKiddingOlePal
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:43 am:
“You make close to $18 Million with me, vacation with me, help clout my daughter for me, and THAT …that is the speech you give? If we weren’t such good friends…I’m kidding, how about a picture, just for us, not for publication …”
- AFSCME Steward - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:47 am:
The Lone Venture Capitalist and his sidekick Stumpy
- Loop Lady - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:49 am:
the Laverne and Shirley of the investment banker set…
- Jake From Elwood - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 10:50 am:
“Islands in the Stream, that is what we are…”
- MrJM - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 11:07 am:
The winner of last year’s “Poor Man’s Democrat” award presents the trophy to the winner of this year’s “Poor Man’s Republican”.
– MrJM
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 11:08 am:
“Rahm, be a pal, can you help with my petitions … oh, geez, that’s right …’Republican, Republican’ … got to keep reminding myself…”
- William j Kelly - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 11:12 am:
Trust me Bruce, these people are soooo stupid they elected me mayor and I am not even a Chicago resident… Do you really think they will find out you aren’t really a republican?!
- walkinfool - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 11:28 am:
hedge fund derivatives
- AFSCME Steward - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 11:29 am:
Contestants on the new Fox reality show, “Who Wants To Fleece The Taxpayers ?”.
- LGHB - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 11:31 am:
Rahm to Bruce: “This your half of our BFF charm. I have the other half. BFFs forever!”
- Phineas J. Whoopee - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 11:44 am:
Honey, I shrunk the kid
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 11:53 am:
@FakeBruceRauner - Rahm was giving me an award. This isn’t THAT big of a deal. Rahm and I know about big deals, and this ain’t one #EveryoneMakesMoneyOnOurDeals
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 11:55 am:
@FakeEmanuel - I don’t $#%& get it. John Kass tlaks about the Combine, and Kass still thinks Brucie is an Outssider? #Fantasy #Kasserific #BlindedByTheCash
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 12:01 pm:
@FakeBruceRauner - Look, when all the “little people” go to DisneyWorld, are you vacationing with all the other people there? See, just like me & Rahm & the Ranch #MinusThousands #TheHouseIsHugeNeverSawRahm
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 12:04 pm:
@FakeEmanuel - The Ranch is so big, I call it “the resort”, so its not like we’re close. #InviteOnly #NonConnectedPeopleNeedNotAsk
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 12:05 pm:
@FakeBruceRauner - I see myself Like Harry Potter in the ILGOP, Part Slytherin, Part Gryffindor, part and parcel with Rahm. #AreYouConfusedToo
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 12:09 pm:
OW, “I saw them up there, getting the award. Right after, Bruce talked to me, and asked me to go to the Ranch with Rahm to do a ‘favor’. That’s when I knew I wouldn’t be coming back from the Ranch …”
- reformer - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 12:19 pm:
“Thanks for your help with Payton.”
“De nada. I’d do the same for any constituent.”
“Right.”
- Bemused - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 12:24 pm:
Or perhaps
I’m going to buy me a horse
Just about this high
and ride him all along the border line.
- aufjunk - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 12:48 pm:
“Hey, look, I got Shorty!”
- downstate commissioner - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 1:27 pm:
Snucka @9:30 got the biggest laugh from me….
- too obvious - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 1:37 pm:
Rauner accepts award for biggest waste of campaign money ever.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 1:44 pm:
@FakeBruceRauner - Thanks @FakeEmanuel for taking my Gray tie I had at the Ranch. As you can see, I got myself another. #Besties
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 1:48 pm:
@FakeBruceRauner - I believe in the Reagan Rule of 80%. I just apply it to all my Democratic friends since I agree more with them, like Rahm #MissingThePoint #
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 1:50 pm:
@FakeBruceRauner - If you look at the real dollars I gave and give to Dems, and how much money I make, off those Dems. The return for me is better for them #AccountingForOnAccountIGiveMoneyToLotsOfDems
- A guy... - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 1:51 pm:
Oh, a cha cha! Let me lead this time Bruce.
- crazybleedingheart - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 1:52 pm:
“Your house, is a very, very, very fine house”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 1:54 pm:
@FakeEmanuel - Bruce Rauner didn’t ask me to be the one to give him the award…Bruce begged me! #HaHaRahmMadeAFunny
- votecounter - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 1:55 pm:
People let me tell you about my best friend he’s a warm hearted person who loves me to the end
- Dell Griffith - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 1:56 pm:
“THOSE AREN’T PILLOWS!!!!”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 1:57 pm:
@FakeBruceRauner - I wouldn’t say Rahm spends alot of time at the Ranch, but last time I went, the House Staff aske ME if I wanted to come in and see Rahm! #HaHaRahmBruceCanBeFunnyToo
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 1:59 pm:
@FakeBruceRauner - Yeah, Rahm spends a great deal of Time with me at the Ranch. So much, the Mongrams on the Towels are now “RE”, not “BR” #DomesticJokesBringDownTheHouse
- Dirty Red - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 2:01 pm:
Many a tear have to fall
But it’s all in the game
All in the wonderful game
That we know as love
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 2:03 pm:
@FakeBruceRauner - Rahm spends time at my Ranch so often, he sends me postcards when he’s there, with the picture of my Ranch on the front. #GoingPostalWithTheJokes
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 2:05 pm:
Breaking 100
@FakeEmanuel - What the %$&$@, Bruce. I am here at the Ranch and there is no milk in the fridge again! #WhatKindOfReceptionIsThatForYourBuddy
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 2:23 pm:
@FakeEmamuel - I’m not saying Clouting his Daughter into Payton Prep was bad, but asking for a parking spot for her in the Teacher’s lot was even too much for me #CloutingHumor
- Just The Way It Is One - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 3:35 pm:
Rauner: “Gosh it feels so nice to hold and pat you softly on the back, little buddy…psst, don’t go tellin’ em I’m a DEMocrat now, Rahmie, ok?”
Rahm: Shush Brucie–we rich guys just like to hang together, you know THAT!! Now–hurry up ‘n grab my hand before they take the shot so it’ll LOOK better–c’MON!!”
- 47th Ward - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 3:45 pm:
I wish I knew how to quit you Rahm.
- ChicagoDem - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 3:54 pm:
Two millionaires; men of the people.
- CLJ - Friday, Oct 4, 13 @ 4:01 pm:
The job interview for governor went so well, Mayor Emanuel decided to give Bruce one of the awards off his shelf.