Question of the day
Wednesday, Jun 11, 2014 - Posted by Rich Miller * I’m having some serious Comcast internet problems today, so blogging could be spotty. I never did find an entertaining photo of the governor’s bill-signing ceremony yesterday at a Harley dealership, so we’ll go with the cupcake girl… * The Question: Caption?
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- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:04 pm:
“Look, it’s Mayor Daley!”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:05 pm:
“I thought he was a real boy now…”
- lake county democrat - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:05 pm:
Look, it’s Doug Flutie dressed as Pinnochio!
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:05 pm:
“Look, a kitty”
- The Colossus of Roads - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:07 pm:
Isn’t that Kwame Raoul with one of my cupcakes.
- Rich Miller - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:11 pm:
“There he is, governor. There’s the Madison County inspector who shut down my bakery. Sic ‘em!”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:11 pm:
Rich wins.
- Ron Burgundy - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:11 pm:
PQ: “Hello, little girl. I’d like to talk to you about your cupcake stand and its implication for economic development here in the Land of Lincoln, and I…”
Girl: *points* “Oh no, what is that horrible thing!”
PQ: *turns around* “Where?”
*little girl runs away*
- A guy... - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:12 pm:
Next question, Brooke?
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:13 pm:
“Sen. Trotter is eating one too!”
- Responsa - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:13 pm:
You shouldn’t have messed with me.
- A guy... - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:13 pm:
“That guy just stole one!”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:14 pm:
“Look, it the ‘Carhartt’ Limited Edition Harley…”
- OneMan - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:19 pm:
Why is that man referring to my cupcakes as ‘cheddar’
- Jake From Elwood - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:21 pm:
“Local girl shows more direction than Governor”
- Almost the Weekend - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:23 pm:
Girl: Can I get one of those stuff animals?
PQ: That right there is Squeezy the Pension Python. As a small business owner, you will no longer have to worry about the tremendous pension bill payment looming over your shoulder when you are looking to hire full-time and part-time employees, or expand your business into neighboring St. Clair County. However, I do recommend you pay your part-time and full-time employees a liveable wage. That’s why I Pat Quinn, governor of Illinois, am pushing the legislation to increase the minimum wage to $10.10.
- Cupcake - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:23 pm:
Maybe this could serve as a second photo caption today?
https://twitter.com/MBrooke20/status/476789813845434368/photo/1
- Ron Burgundy - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:26 pm:
“Little girl, have you seen all of my Southern Illinois supporters anywhere?”
“Yes, Mr. Governor. I think it’s that guy over there.”
- Steve - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:26 pm:
Pat Quinn: “Michelle Obama weighs more than me also, little girl.”
- Robert the Bruce - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:27 pm:
“Governor, thank you, but I no longer need the law. I’m rich! That guy with the cheap watch just bought my cupcake company for a cool million!”
- OneMan - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:28 pm:
Did you pay for that?
- Ron Burgundy - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:28 pm:
“I gave your advance person an extra plate of cupcakes, Governor. I’ve seen your refrigerator.”
- Res Melius - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:29 pm:
Look - another windmill!
- OneMan - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:33 pm:
A continuation from yesterday….
Brook realized, if he always had a cupcake in his mouth he couldn’t talk and the less he talked the easier her job would be. Yeah, there would be some downsides, like weight gain and having to keep a bazzilion of the things around. But they had enough money to just pay the girl to make them all day long…
Also if she had some for the press at each stop, they would eat them, they love free food and wouldn’t be able to ask questions…
It was brilliant….
(That is why I suspected the picture she tweeted and one in his mouth)
https://twitter.com/MBrooke20/status/476789813845434368
- Red Ranger - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:34 pm:
Little Girl: “Hey, Governor Quinn and Speaker Hastert, I don’t care who you are, the back of the line is over there!”
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:35 pm:
“No Mr Quinn, for the last time I won’t now your lawn, but that guy might”
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:35 pm:
“No Mr Quinn, for the last time I won’t mow your lawn, but that guy might”
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:36 pm:
look rauner`s doing a holeshot wheelie on his harley oop`s he lost his plan there`s paper everywhere
- OneMan - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:39 pm:
That guy was explaining to me how much easier it would have been to do this in Indiana
- Stones - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:40 pm:
“That dude bought my last red velvet cupcake!”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:41 pm:
“Jason Plummer, put down that Cupcake!”
- Wensicia - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:41 pm:
“Watch Sen. Trotter. I stuffed his cupcake with a habanero pepper.
- Ron Burgundy - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:42 pm:
“That lady with the banjo over there said she had to try all the cupcakes because she wants to be the Chomptroller. I told her she was fibbing, there’s no such thing.”
- Demoralized - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 1:49 pm:
And if you’ll look over there Governor, you’ll see my assembly line of girls making cupcakes. They’re all 7. That’s not against the law is it?
- Been There - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 2:01 pm:
Sen Haine falls for the “oh look, you have something on your tie” trick before Cupcake Girl flips her finger at his nose.
- anon - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 2:08 pm:
SOMEBODY TELL HIS SONS TO BUY HIM A NEW TIE FOR FATHER’S DAY FOR CHRIST SAKE!
- siriusly - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 2:08 pm:
“Hey they can’t be here - they sold more than $1,000 dollars of cupcakes!”
- zatoichi - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 2:09 pm:
Right to left:
Cupcake: Hey, that guy put two in his pocket!
PQ: What?
White Head: We have a 1:45 at McDonald’s. We gotta go.
- Roadiepig - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 2:11 pm:
“Is that the can I keep hear about that you and your friends keep kicking down some road”
- wordslinger - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 2:11 pm:
“Chloe, the funny lady with frosting all over her face is named Maureen Dowd. She had a Kush Kake before she ate all your cupcakes. Stay away from her.”
- x ace - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 2:15 pm:
Girl That’s Troy’s new “Cupcake” Watertower.
Haine: Collinsvile ain’t gonna like that.
Quinn: What ?
- Yellow Dog Democrat - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 2:15 pm:
“Trotter, no soup for you!”
- Commonsense in Illinois - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 2:16 pm:
There’s the door…use it.
- Reformed Public Servant - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 2:17 pm:
Look there’s my future, leaving IL! Thanks, Guv.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 2:21 pm:
“Over there? That’s my Cannoli making station…”
- Tankr - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 2:27 pm:
That,s my dad! he never voted for you.
- Team Sleep - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 2:28 pm:
“Look, Governor! Even Senator Haine knows that ties come in other colors besides purple.”
- Skeptic - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 2:32 pm:
“Look over there. Those are the Oompah-Loompahs.”
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 2:37 pm:
look`s like trotter is hooked on the medical marijuana cup cakes
- A guy... - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 2:40 pm:
Look, that way is Indiana.
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 2:59 pm:
No, the cupcakes are here. The cream puffs are over there Governor.
- Mokenavince - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 3:05 pm:
He should stick to cupcakes!
- Anon. - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 3:22 pm:
PQ: Here comes the Speaker! He’ll fall for it!
Girl: Mr. Speaker, pull my finger!
PQ: Boy, this never gets old!
- Rufus - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 3:22 pm:
Who’s that tall guy over there and why is he laughing?
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 3:35 pm:
angry old state workers give them cake
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 3:41 pm:
“Sorry, Governor… ‘He’ ate your Purple frosted one.”
- Pius - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 3:48 pm:
Hey, is that the governor over there?!?
- Union Man - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 3:49 pm:
Look it’s squeezy!!
- Arthur Andersen - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 4:00 pm:
“My ‘Soy’ cupcakes are over there in the dining room. They really don’t taste too good.”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 4:00 pm:
“No Governor, these are the cupcakes made with Soy milk…”
- Upon Further Review - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 4:01 pm:
Look out! Here come’s Squeezy!
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 4:03 pm:
- AA -, lol… Nice timing!
“Over there… there are the Cupcakes for those who voted no. I ‘accidentally’ forgot to add sugar, worried about how the vote was going to go.”
- 3rd Generation Chicago Native - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 4:19 pm:
Look Judy Baar is only eating the red ones.
- Steve - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 4:30 pm:
Pat Quinn “Yes, the table over there looks like the same day registration tables we have in mind, they are very comfortable for writing signatures at a fast speed.”
- FormerParatrooper - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 4:45 pm:
That Governor over there said if I relocate my cupcake business to his State he would give me a tax break….. whats your offer to stay?
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 5:00 pm:
“Look, there’s Rauner’s budget plan. Ha! Made you look!”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 5:01 pm:
“Yeah, that tall guy over there in the Carhartt jacket. He said to put everybody’s cupcakes on your tab, Governor.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 5:02 pm:
“Look, that woman over there with the red hair is dunking her cupcake in her coffee!”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 5:05 pm:
“Look, my favorite heavy metal band, ‘Sheila Simon and Loose Gravel!”
- The End Is Near - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 5:05 pm:
“I’ve got this thing and it’s f*%kin’ red velvet.”
- Hit or Miss - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 5:14 pm:
Is that Squeezy the Pension Python or Governor Quinn over there next to the cupcakes?
- Anonymous - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 5:19 pm:
pointing the way to the finacial cliff
- Jimmy - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 6:02 pm:
There’s the SOB who wrote me up.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 6:21 pm:
“Look, that guy in the leisure suit is Oswego Willy!”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 6:22 pm:
“Why is Kanye West giving a lecture to that tray of cupcakes?”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 6:24 pm:
“Who’s the guy with the white hair and orange coveralls, and why is he carrying a hair blower?”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 7:18 pm:
“See my friend Emily with the Sponge Bob backpack? Mr. Rauner says she’s a union boss. What’s a union boss, Governor?”
- Rich Miller - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 7:27 pm:
SC wins.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jun 11, 14 @ 8:37 pm:
Well done - SC -.
I do love a nicely pressed leisure suit.
- RunBikeSwim - Thursday, Jun 12, 14 @ 8:31 am:
Hey Mr. Governor, the unemployment line starts over there!
- 4 percent - Thursday, Jun 12, 14 @ 9:10 am:
Mr. Quinn… that is your state agency that tried killing my bill. Get the hell out.
- KGB - Thursday, Jun 12, 14 @ 6:38 pm:
“Okay, Governor, if you insist. I’ll take that office over there. When do I have to start this ‘campaign managing’ thing again? I have summer camp in a couple of weeks.”