Yes this is Madigan, who’s speaking? Rauner? Oh you’re that guy the people voted into office correct? Yeah well just so you know I call the shots around here remember that Mr. Rauner. Click…..
Just a note - looks like BruceRauner.com is down. Not sure why.
- Pot calling kettle - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:47 am:
Someone just told me these things will come without wires some day. If that happens, it will be the Devil’s work, and I won’t let one get anywhere near me!
- The End Is Near - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:47 am:
“Let me get this straight, Future Me. You’re saying that 30 years from now, I’m going to push through $98 million in taxpayer funds for a charter school operator called UNO? Stop it, you’re killing me.”
- Pot calling kettle - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:48 am:
“Of course you can grow up and be Governor someday sweetie; you just need to be patient.”
“I can’t imagine spending another minute in this job.”
What is crazy is that the Speaker probably could tell you what the conversation was about. My only conversation with him descended into him complaining about what things the “Ogilvie people” had gotten over on the Democrats at the constitutional convention. He may be a democrat, but he has the memory of an elephant.
…yeah…then I want this guy named Bruce Rauner elected in 2014…yeah…have him defeat Pat Quinn…no, I’m not joking…NO…That isn’t what I said…Blagojevich gets impeached…Pat Quinn is elected in 2010…then Bruce Rauner is elected in 2014…by how much?…I don’t care…make it about five percentage points…so you got that?
Jim Thompson…Jim Edgar…George Ryan, all Republicans…then we go in with Rod Blagojevich in 2002, who will get impeached…but we’ll have Pat Quinn as his side kick…he gets elected…then Rauner.
Bruce…Rauner…What?…how many times do I have to tell you we need to get one of those Emanuel brothers in City Hall by at least, 2010…
So, you’re telling me that if I eat an apple every day, that not only does the doctor stay away, my daughter gets elected and I stay in power until I die?
I want this guy flown from Hawaii to Chicago to take Alice’s seat for a while…then we get Emil to make him a US Senator…then he runs for the White House to become the first African American US President…I don’t care if he wasn’t born here…fix it…
…yeah, right - pot is going to be legalized…yeah - that’ll happen the day the day after they make gay marriage legal…gambling?…that’ll never happen in a million years…we have more than enough money flowing into our treasury we’ll never have to stoop that low…what are you talking about?…no way Americans would ever buy a Japanese piece of crap when they can get a good honest Oldsmobile…global what?…WARMING?…you just said cooling - which is it?…CLIMATE CHANGE?…what are you smoking?…what do you mean NO SMOKING is allowed anymore?
Three reps per district? Somebody should do something about this cumulative voting thing. I can’t even make a phone call without one of these guys in my face.
What?
There’s witnesses seeing me on that grassy knoll?
- Third Reading - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:35 am:
There are thousands in the phone booth
Thousands at the gate
There are thousands in the phone booth
Thousands at the gate
Ev’rybody wants to make a long-distance call
But you know they’re just gonna have to wait…
Ev’rybody wants to be my friend
But nobody wants to get higher
Ev’rybody wants to be my friend
But nobody wants to get higher
Long-distance operator
I believe I’m stranglin’ on this telephone wire. — Bob Dylan
Listen honey, tell you what…you get that homework assignment done tonight, take out the garbage like Mom is asking you and I’ll make you Attorney General one day…no - not governor…well, OK Sweetie…Governor it is!
Listen Oberweis.
So, you got me.
You can’t prove a thing.
Its all gossip among the milk cows.
My family never knew the O’Leary family directly.
Yeah - we sold her the lantern, and we bought up all the lumber rights a month before, but c’mon - there is no way we could have had that cow kick over that lantern…YOU go ahead and believe what Flossie Bell is telling you her great, great grandmother told her…OK - what would you say if I clear the way for you to run for the US Senate, say thirty five years from now?…that’s the best I can do…
Send me the cow and we’ll have her over for “dinner”, how’s that?
No way in hell anyone is going to vote for someone named Judy Barr Topinka! And tell that Obama guy to change his name before we give him Alice’s spot on the ticket.
Young Madigan: Hello, Present-Day Madigan? Please make sure that I maintain absolute control of State government for decades to come.
Present-Day Madigan: Done! And, as a bonus, your daughter by marriage will become Attorney General so that we expand the Madigan regime to all corners of State government. The future looks bright, Young Madigan!
Get me a cartologist, no not a heart guy, I’ll never need one of those, a mapmaker. I need to project population shifts over the next 3 decades and get some preliminary maps drawn. We may need a canal or two to create some boundaries. And, where the hell is Kane County and how is it possible people will ever move to that pasture?
Give the cardiologist a raise and tell him scholarships for the kids at U of I are all lined up. Oh, they are only 5 & 6! No problem. It’s a done deal.
- Reformed Public Servant - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 12:16 pm:
MJM received call from Future Self
MJM 2016 “Listen and don’t hang up. This is you from 2016, here’s what you need to do to hold onto power for the next 4 decades, Mr. Speaker…
MJM 1976 “I’m listening…”
The guy with the funny African name and big ears? How many votes? Fast Eddie has already wrapped up the Southeast side for us. Tell that community organizer we don’t want want nobody that nobody sent.
- Martin S. McFly Sr. - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 12:29 pm:
“He’s sitting right here Mr Mayor and I have tired telling him that you thought Bill would be a good follow-up to you. But, he’s insistent that he’s up to the task and will do better as Mayor than he’s doing with the law boards”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:40 am:
“What is Mayor Bilandic waiting for? …Mark my words, those streets don’t get plowed, he’s going to get Burned”
- Wordslinger - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:41 am:
“Where are you? What are you wearing?”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:42 am:
“We need to take out Pat Quinn…today…If we don’t finish Pat Quinn off now, it will come back to haunt us.”
- RNUG - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:42 am:
Hello? Batcave?
- Yellow Dog Democrat - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:43 am:
Mike Madigan to Future Mike Madigan: “When the phone rings on Nov. 4, 2014, don’t pick up.”
- Del Clinkton - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:43 am:
“Bruce I told you to NEVER call me here”
- Linus - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:43 am:
“No, Bruce, this is an answering machine, not the real Madigan. Please leave your message after the tone. BEEEEEEEEP … “
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:44 am:
“Two large cheese, one late pepperoni… One veggie…will you deliver there?…ok, thanks Rod, you’re a good kid…”
- Cornerfield - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:45 am:
Yeah, Houston…we have a problem.
- bloval27 - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:45 am:
Yes this is Madigan, who’s speaking? Rauner? Oh you’re that guy the people voted into office correct? Yeah well just so you know I call the shots around here remember that Mr. Rauner. Click…..
- Anonymoiis - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:45 am:
“Mobile phones? Who would ever use something like that? I’ll pass”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:46 am:
“Keep Farley there…yeah… That district might come in handy someday…”
- Empty Chair - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:46 am:
Just a note - looks like BruceRauner.com is down. Not sure why.
- Pot calling kettle - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:47 am:
Someone just told me these things will come without wires some day. If that happens, it will be the Devil’s work, and I won’t let one get anywhere near me!
- The End Is Near - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:47 am:
“Let me get this straight, Future Me. You’re saying that 30 years from now, I’m going to push through $98 million in taxpayer funds for a charter school operator called UNO? Stop it, you’re killing me.”
- Pot calling kettle - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:48 am:
“Of course you can grow up and be Governor someday sweetie; you just need to be patient.”
- Dirty Red - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:48 am:
“How’s your first day going, JoAnne?”
- Algonquin J. Calhoun - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:48 am:
“How many times do I have to tell you -take the canoli, *leave* the gun . . . “
- Jose Abreu's next homer - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:50 am:
Hi. John Patrick Ryan please. Guess what J.P., you’ll run against me as a Republican in 2010. It’s going to be awesome. Everyone will get to know you.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:50 am:
“Tell the Sgt. at Arms Al Ronan is at it again. I need Mr. Happy. Loud.”
- walker - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:51 am:
Get him new ash cans today!
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:52 am:
“Yeah, usual table..,just me and LaPaille…”
- Upon Further Review - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:53 am:
“Of course the legislative session has to adjourn at midnight, but if we reset the clocks, the White Sox will have a new ballpark.”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:54 am:
“So Mell is standing ON the desk?…ON the desk?…get a picture of that…”
- Loop Lady - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:54 am:
“Yeah, Saputos? Do you deliver apples”?
- RNUG - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:54 am:
Royko, you’ll regret printing that story!
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:55 am:
“I know, Mayor Washington, I wouldn’t have hired Pat Quinn…”
- Stateworker #1983 - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:57 am:
Godfather in training.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:58 am:
“You tell Eddie, he runs as a Republican, even I can’t help him…”
- RNUG - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:58 am:
Tell Rod there is no way I’m talking about any deal on the phone … set up a meet.
- Bogey Golfer - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:59 am:
OK, who put Crazyglue to the earpiece?
- Truthteller - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:00 am:
I’m sorry, Shirley. I won’t be home for dinner tonight. I am going to be tied up here for quite some time.
- Team Sleep - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:00 am:
WHY DOES THIS THING NOT HAVE CALLER ID?!
- Downstate - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:01 am:
In a whispering voice…
“Security office? Could someone get the well dressed creeper to my left out of my face?!”
- MrJM - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:01 am:
“Give this job to Clemenza. I want reliable people — people who aren’t going to be carried away.”
– MrJM
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:02 am:
“Yes, you can count on me, President Carter. No subsidies for peanut farmers in Illinois!”
- Ron Burgundy - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:02 am:
“Yeah, Pate? Can you page one of our interns for us? Last name Weiner, first name Ima.”
- kj - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:02 am:
“I can’t imagine spending another minute in this job.”
What is crazy is that the Speaker probably could tell you what the conversation was about. My only conversation with him descended into him complaining about what things the “Ogilvie people” had gotten over on the Democrats at the constitutional convention. He may be a democrat, but he has the memory of an elephant.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:03 am:
“Joe’s Garage? This is Mike. Did you get the oil changed on my Corvair yet?”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:03 am:
“Governor Thompson, you want…Jim Edgar…Is that right? You want to appoint Edgar to SOS? He’s kinda bland…”
- Dawn - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:05 am:
Oh what the heck…I’ll try a tuna fish sandwich and an apple.
- Leatherneck - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:06 am:
How was school today, Lisa?
- Jechislo - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:06 am:
He had the same look in his eyes back then as he has today.
- Give Me A Break - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:07 am:
OK, tell Lee he can be Speaker but only for two years and I don’t care if he drew the map or not.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:08 am:
“You’re alright Dillard. You keep you’re head on straight and focus, I see you in the big chair someday…”
- Wordslinger - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:08 am:
“Wow, Adlai, that Seymour Simon can hold a grudge.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:09 am:
“Empty shoeboxes? Yeah, I may have a few around the house. What do you want them for, Paul?”
- Leatherneck - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:10 am:
Is this Burger Chef on West Washington? How late are you open tonight?
- Wordslinger - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:10 am:
“Hello, Sam? We’re in supposed to be in session now. Clear the bar.”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:11 am:
“So we agree, Mayor Stephens…good…you get Roger, I get Ralph, Banks get Jimmy…yeah, that should keep everyone happy…”
- Aldyth - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:11 am:
Yellow Dog Democrat at 9:43 had me laughing loud enough to be heard in the hallway.
Well done!
- Amalia - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:12 am:
wait, we lost?
- Jorge - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:12 am:
“Go ahead and make my day.”
- Wordslinger - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:12 am:
“Just a second, I’ll check. Amanda Hugginkiss? Is there Amanda Hugginkiss here?”
- zatoichi - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:15 am:
If you feel you have to I understand. Just remember this conversation.
- Wordslinger - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:15 am:
“What I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills that I have acquired over a long career….”
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:16 am:
…yeah…then I want this guy named Bruce Rauner elected in 2014…yeah…have him defeat Pat Quinn…no, I’m not joking…NO…That isn’t what I said…Blagojevich gets impeached…Pat Quinn is elected in 2010…then Bruce Rauner is elected in 2014…by how much?…I don’t care…make it about five percentage points…so you got that?
Jim Thompson…Jim Edgar…George Ryan, all Republicans…then we go in with Rod Blagojevich in 2002, who will get impeached…but we’ll have Pat Quinn as his side kick…he gets elected…then Rauner.
Bruce…Rauner…What?…how many times do I have to tell you we need to get one of those Emanuel brothers in City Hall by at least, 2010…
- Esteban - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:16 am:
I want to pput a hundred bucks on “Rosie” in the fifth race.
- Wensicia - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:16 am:
“Fire up the DeLorean, time to get back…”
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:18 am:
So, you’re telling me that if I eat an apple every day, that not only does the doctor stay away, my daughter gets elected and I stay in power until I die?
Tomorrow. Make it a Mackintosh.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:20 am:
“Listen….LISTEN….things will go aLOT easier for you if you just..” (Fill in the blank)
- Jaded - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:20 am:
“…and then this Daniels guy votes for Redmond. I know, crazy right? I kinda like that Lee Daniels. I think that kid is going places…”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:20 am:
“George is gaveling us in, I gotta go… “
- Oneman - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:20 am:
What are you wearing?
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:24 am:
I want this guy flown from Hawaii to Chicago to take Alice’s seat for a while…then we get Emil to make him a US Senator…then he runs for the White House to become the first African American US President…I don’t care if he wasn’t born here…fix it…
- Solarcatcher - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:25 am:
“And I’m gonna stay here forever! FAME!
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:25 am:
Miss Cleo?
- Pot calling kettle - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:26 am:
“So, all I have to do is show up at the crossroads outside of town at midnight and I’ll be Speaker for life? I’m in!”
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:26 am:
…a young, clean shaven guy named Rich Miller…
- Team Sleep - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:30 am:
If anyone saw last night’s South Park:
“Have I met all of your customer service needs?!”
- How Ironic - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:30 am:
Listen, I’m not even sure how this ‘phone’ thing works. If you want to talk, meet me.
- RNUG - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:31 am:
Yeah, I can solve your property tax problem …
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:31 am:
“We had a problem…We tried to do everything we could…You know what I mean….He’s gone and we couldn’t do nothing about it…He’s gone. He’s gone.”
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:33 am:
…yeah, right - pot is going to be legalized…yeah - that’ll happen the day the day after they make gay marriage legal…gambling?…that’ll never happen in a million years…we have more than enough money flowing into our treasury we’ll never have to stoop that low…what are you talking about?…no way Americans would ever buy a Japanese piece of crap when they can get a good honest Oldsmobile…global what?…WARMING?…you just said cooling - which is it?…CLIMATE CHANGE?…what are you smoking?…what do you mean NO SMOKING is allowed anymore?
- anonymous - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:34 am:
Miller? You say your name is Miller and you want to become a journalist someday and you want me to be your first interview? Sure, kid, sure.
(Probably never hear from him again. What’d he say his name was?)
- 47th Ward - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:34 am:
Three reps per district? Somebody should do something about this cumulative voting thing. I can’t even make a phone call without one of these guys in my face.
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:34 am:
What?
There’s witnesses seeing me on that grassy knoll?
- Third Reading - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:35 am:
There are thousands in the phone booth
Thousands at the gate
There are thousands in the phone booth
Thousands at the gate
Ev’rybody wants to make a long-distance call
But you know they’re just gonna have to wait…
Ev’rybody wants to be my friend
But nobody wants to get higher
Ev’rybody wants to be my friend
But nobody wants to get higher
Long-distance operator
I believe I’m stranglin’ on this telephone wire. — Bob Dylan
I’m outta here.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:35 am:
“Listen, Miller. I don’t care if you ARE a freelancer for ‘Weekly Reader.’ I said no interviews!”
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:37 am:
Listen honey, tell you what…you get that homework assignment done tonight, take out the garbage like Mom is asking you and I’ll make you Attorney General one day…no - not governor…well, OK Sweetie…Governor it is!
- Anon - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:37 am:
“Storms come and go, the big fish eat the little fish and I keep on paddling.”
- RNUG - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:39 am:
Pat wants to cut the size of the House? Where did he come up with that crazy idea?
- Hickory - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:41 am:
I’ll make sure the pension fund money gets us reelected.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:42 am:
“No, nobody’s ever told me before that I look like Captain Kirk.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:43 am:
“Governor Walker? Momo wants to talk to you on Line 2.”
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:45 am:
Listen Oberweis.
So, you got me.
You can’t prove a thing.
Its all gossip among the milk cows.
My family never knew the O’Leary family directly.
Yeah - we sold her the lantern, and we bought up all the lumber rights a month before, but c’mon - there is no way we could have had that cow kick over that lantern…YOU go ahead and believe what Flossie Bell is telling you her great, great grandmother told her…OK - what would you say if I clear the way for you to run for the US Senate, say thirty five years from now?…that’s the best I can do…
Send me the cow and we’ll have her over for “dinner”, how’s that?
- À guy - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:47 am:
Hi honey. Just got a great job offer from Mesirow. What do you say we have a another child so we can fill it?
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:49 am:
Hey Governor, ever consider going into the muffler business after your term is finished?
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:52 am:
No way in hell anyone is going to vote for someone named Judy Barr Topinka! And tell that Obama guy to change his name before we give him Alice’s spot on the ticket.
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:55 am:
When I say Saputos, I really mean the back room at Norb Andys.
- Buddy - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:59 am:
I can’t see myself doing this for much longer.
- Nonplussed - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 11:00 am:
What do you mean “this is Future Mike Madigan?”
What the hell does “like a boss!” mean and why are you ending every sentence with that?
- RNUG - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 11:01 am:
O…kay. This can work to our advantage …
- Judgment Day - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 11:09 am:
“What, I should buy Apple?. Why do I want an Apple? It’s a stock? iTunes? iPhone? iPad? What are you talking about?
And buy Google? Google anything? What are you talking about?”
(To his staff). Make sure this person never talks to me again…..ever….
- pundent - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 11:15 am:
Sure I can hold, I’m not going anywhere.
- hdhog - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 11:19 am:
don’t worry about the pension system it will be fine
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 11:21 am:
“No, Leo, I don’t need any more suits. Wide lapels are here to stay!”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 11:22 am:
“Phil Luciano? Any relation to ‘Lucky’?”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 11:25 am:
“Hello, K-Tel? I’d like to order your ‘Greatest Hits of Motown’ collection. Yeah, on 8-track.”
- Black Ivy - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 11:28 am:
Young Madigan: Hello, Present-Day Madigan? Please make sure that I maintain absolute control of State government for decades to come.
Present-Day Madigan: Done! And, as a bonus, your daughter by marriage will become Attorney General so that we expand the Madigan regime to all corners of State government. The future looks bright, Young Madigan!
- Wordslinger - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 11:32 am:
BI, what’s a “a daughter by marriage?”
Is that humor, or an insult, or bile or what?
- ex-ISU - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 11:38 am:
Rob Peter to pay Paul? Sounds good to me. We’ll be gone before anyone figures it out.
- Knome Sane - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 11:44 am:
MJM: “You’d do that for me? Well, I am married.”
RMD: “Who are you talking to at this hour?”
MJM: “It’s Bruce, from State Farm”
RMD: “Well, he sounds hideous”
- A guy... - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 11:52 am:
Get me a cartologist, no not a heart guy, I’ll never need one of those, a mapmaker. I need to project population shifts over the next 3 decades and get some preliminary maps drawn. We may need a canal or two to create some boundaries. And, where the hell is Kane County and how is it possible people will ever move to that pasture?
- Knome Sane - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 11:53 am:
Revising:
MJM: “You’d do that for me? Well, I am married.”
RMD: “Who are you talking to at this hour?”
MJM: “It’s Bruce, from State Farm”
RMD (grabbing the phone): “Hello, who is this?
BR: “Uh, Bruce, from State Farm”
RMD: “What are you wearing ‘Bruce from State Farm?’”
BR: “Uh, a Carhartt jacket and an $18.00 watch”
RMD (covering the phone): “Well, he sounds hideous”
- E town - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 11:57 am:
Is that Rich Daley next to Madigan biting his nails?
- Independent - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 12:05 pm:
Madigan and Getzendanner, this is Mike speaking. How may I help you?
- Roscoe Tom - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 12:09 pm:
Give the cardiologist a raise and tell him scholarships for the kids at U of I are all lined up. Oh, they are only 5 & 6! No problem. It’s a done deal.
- Reformed Public Servant - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 12:16 pm:
MJM received call from Future Self
MJM 2016 “Listen and don’t hang up. This is you from 2016, here’s what you need to do to hold onto power for the next 4 decades, Mr. Speaker…
MJM 1976 “I’m listening…”
- Quizzical - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 12:17 pm:
The guy with the funny African name and big ears? How many votes? Fast Eddie has already wrapped up the Southeast side for us. Tell that community organizer we don’t want want nobody that nobody sent.
- Martin S. McFly Sr. - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 12:29 pm:
Give him an offer he can’t refuse.
- VanillaMan - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 12:29 pm:
Sure, you’re sincere - but the bigger question is, after I buy you will you stay bought?
- liandro - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 12:36 pm:
- Wordslinger - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:15 am:
- Knome Sane - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 11:53 am:
It’s down to those two. I actually lol’d at both.
- The Colossus of Roads - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 1:02 pm:
I need a Nickname? How about Oswego Willy.
- lake county democrat - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 1:36 pm:
But I need to give up my immortal soul? OK, I’ll think about it…never mind, I’m in!
- Horse w/ No Name - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 2:27 pm:
I don’t know a Marvin Berry, turn the music down, you have the wrong number.
- lake county democrat - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 2:28 pm:
PS: Independent for the win.
- ThatGirl - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 3:03 pm:
“Ive got a sycophant here on his knees biting his nails - what are you doing ?”
- Rich Miller - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 4:23 pm:
===Is that Rich Daley next to Madigan===
Yep.
- Belle - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 5:55 pm:
“He’s sitting right here Mr Mayor and I have tired telling him that you thought Bill would be a good follow-up to you. But, he’s insistent that he’s up to the task and will do better as Mayor than he’s doing with the law boards”
- Wordslinger - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 9:21 pm:
liandro, you’re the best, a hard working , happy warrior. i’m proud to know you.
I know we don’t always aLways agree on the policies, but you’re the goods, and if I were ever in a jam, I’d call you first.
By the way, anyone who claims Reagan as a mentor, you better get to Dixon.
And spend a lot of money, too, with the locals.
The Rock and Dixon are awesome, this farm boy will tell you.
- Veritas - Thursday, Nov 13, 14 @ 10:10 pm:
Play Misty for me