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123 Comments - south side - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:37 pm: Hokey Pokey - Rich Miller - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:37 pm: So, I says to Carrigan, I says to him, “Boo!!!” You shoulda seen him jump! - Empty Chair - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:40 pm: Everyone say “401(k)s!!!” - Former Titan - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:40 pm: Businessman. Governor. Photo bomber. - William j Kelly - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:40 pm: Rahm says both hands up, Rahm says smile, Rahm says tilt to the left, Rahm says…… - A. Nonymous - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:41 pm: Remember that millionaire tax referendum? Ha! Me neither! - Dirty Red - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:41 pm: “Then Schrimpf goes, ‘This is the thanks we get?!’ Swear to God, man.” - Anonymoiis - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:42 pm: Ok everyone, Jazz Hands on 3. Ready? 1….2…. - A. Nonymous - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:42 pm: Shared sacrifice?! Ha! Ya got me there! Good one. - D.P.Gumby - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:45 pm: “Remember what I said in the General Election?…Just Kidding!” - QCG - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:45 pm: I’m practicing for my State of the State address! Bring on the magic (numbers). Do you think a red nose would help or hurt? - Obamas Puppy - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:46 pm: Governor Selfie - A. Nonymous - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:47 pm: The first time I heard nine billion I thought they said “nice bullion” but when they said it again I was all like “Eeeeeekkk!” - Anonymous - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:47 pm: Bruce Rauner frozen in carbonite - Anon. - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:47 pm: “It’s Squeezey! Run for your lives!” - 47th Ward - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:47 pm: You shoulda seen the look on his face when we told him Manny Sanchez was being reappointed. Bertuca was like “holy guacamole!” - Anonymous - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:48 pm: BUT HIS HANDS WERE TIED! - Mittuns - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:48 pm: I’m the boogeyman, and I’m coming to get ya! - Jaded - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:48 pm: Let me go on, like I blister in the sun, Let me go on, big hands I know you’re the one. - "a friend of a friend" - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:48 pm: Hey Pat Quinn, I win again, Ha! - Arthur Andersen - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:49 pm: “Hands Up! Don’t Write!” - Rich Miller - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:50 pm: Arduin says we need to cut $9 billion. I said “Why not 10?” - Jake From Elwood - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:52 pm: Governor Rauner ‘Raises the Roof’ on cuts to State workers. - OneMan - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:53 pm: Sending this one to Quinn. - PublicServant - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:54 pm: 10 bucks an hour. You gotta problem with that? - OneMan - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:54 pm: Is it me or does he look a bit like Smiling Bob in this… - Jorge - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:55 pm: I’m so cheap I still wear Eddie Bauer clothes from 1996. - Empty Suit - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:57 pm: Good grief we elected Red Buttons! - Loop Lady - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:57 pm: And now, I’m going to Disney World! - Tsavo - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:57 pm: Surprise! I was “Quinnochio” all along. - sal-says - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:58 pm: So? I’m a clown, just a REEEELY rich one. How do you like me now? - Anon - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:58 pm: “Pretty soon I’ll have this many billions!” - Joe M - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:59 pm: Little child: Mommy, that man is scaring me. Make him go away. - Philo - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 3:59 pm: Governor Rauner prepares to devour a local union member protesting his union busting rhetoric. - Anonymous - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:00 pm: “The Aristocrats!” - Empty Suit - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:01 pm: Rauner returns the favor to one of his inauguration sponsors Subway and sings “Five, Five dollar foot longs..” - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:01 pm: “Look at me, I’m giving out Appointments!” - And I Approved This Message - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:04 pm: Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner, R. Carhartt, and an unidentified aide, react to the shocking sight of the clouds parting and the ghostly apparitions of former Governors Pat Quinn, Rod Blagojevich and Henry Horner appear in the night sky. - 10th ward - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:04 pm: @ Empty Suit–HILARIOUS!!! Not bad Mittuns, but Empty has the best one so far - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:06 pm: - Jaded -, I think it might be “Gone Daddy Gone” “Caption?” “Put this on Dan Rutherford’s Twitter!” - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:07 pm: GOV RAUNER TRIES MED-MAL FOR HIMSELF - Product of the 60's - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:07 pm: “What,Me Worry?” - Third Reading - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:09 pm: 1. “Doin’ that crazy hand jive.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxU995zbfno 2. “Got the world locked up inside a plastic box.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_17w8PYU5o I’m outta here. - south side - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:09 pm: Hey this medical marijuana stuff ain’t so bad. - jerry 101 - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:11 pm: Bruce Rauner reveals that he was really Squeezy all along. - Stones - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:11 pm: I am Quinnochio! - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:12 pm: - Jaded -, Strike my last, it might be “Good Feeling” “Caption?” “I won and I ate the Cannoli!” - The Lowly LA - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:12 pm: “Aaahhhhh! It’s gonna crush us! The budget deficit, it’s… it’s so HUGE. I had NO idea!” - Rich Miller - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:15 pm: Mystery Woman: You miserable slug! You think you can talk your way out of this? You betrayed me. Bruce: No I didn’t. Honest… I ran out of gas! I–I had a flat tire! I didn’t have enough money for cab fare! My tux didn’t come back from the cleaners! An old friend came in from out of town! Someone stole my car! There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! Locusts! IT WASN’T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!!! - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:16 pm: Rich, lol, well played… “Am I really on Jimmy Kimmel! Hellllooooo! Hey…Hey Jimmy!” - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:18 pm: “You’re not going to believe this, but Mary Todd Lincoln’s left eye is a security camera. What to freak out the guards? ‘Hey guards, I’m touching artifacts…with sticky fingers…ate cotton candy…You who?!?!?” - Joe from Joliet - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:18 pm: See? I haven’t taken anything from union workers. Yet. - Gabe - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:18 pm: Here’s my impression of the middle class… - 47th Ward - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:19 pm: No? OK, how about this: “It’s SO much worse than I thought!” How was that one? - Sunshine - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:19 pm: Rich, reminded me of Blues Brothers! - ash - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:20 pm: “Suprise — I really don’t care about the middle class…..” - Wensicia - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:21 pm: Crank it, and out pops Rauner-in-the-Box: “I REALLY AM ANTI-UNION!! HaHaHaHaHa!” - Earnest - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:23 pm: After the primary, candidate Rauner moved to the left on a number of issues. After the election, he demonstrates he’s still willing to lean left, but only like this. - ??? - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:23 pm: “The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire We don’t need no water, let the [expletive] burn.. Everybody here we go Ohh Ohh C’mon party people Ohh Ohh Throw your hands in the air Ohh Ohh C’mon party people Wave ‘em like you don’t care….” - Pot calling kettle - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:24 pm: Governor Rauner demonstrates how government employees will be required to busk for change in order to help balance the budget. (He earned $2.69) - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:24 pm: “Rahm is Skyping me from my ranch. Hurry, make a funny face. Everyone…” - Rich Miller - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:25 pm: Wensicia takes the lead. - Johnnie F. - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:26 pm: Hey Koch brothers, I told I’d dance to your tune!! - anonymoose - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:28 pm: Must be Gubernatorial Kabuki theater for the peasants… “And yet, somehow, this surprisingly resulted in a most unfortunate ending to John Wilkes Booth’s acting career.” - A guy - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:30 pm: Look!! Oscar!! - Amalia - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:31 pm: Rauner may have jazz hands, but he’s no Diego Costa. (that one is for you, Gooner.) - Dirty Red - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:31 pm: A spin-off of Miller’s entry @3:50 p.m… http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/58609684.jpg - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:34 pm: (Whispers) “Watch this Watch this… Oh Evelyn….BOO!!! Oh geez, she fell.” - Roscoe Tom - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:36 pm: Anything you say Mike! How’s the wife? - You sure you don’t drink wine. - alas - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:37 pm: There I am talkin’ through my powerpoint and then helloooo - it just comes out - like helloooo - it’s like a tic - hellooo - I can’t stop myself. And now this hands thing - hellooo - somebody slap me - Anonymiss - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:37 pm: >>GOV RAUNER TRIES MED-MAL FOR HIMSELF Uh, @OswegoWilly, did you mean Med-MAR? - Xavier Woods - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:37 pm: I’m just here so I won’t get fined. - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:39 pm: I did,…yikes - zatoichi - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:44 pm: I was on Bozo hoping to catch the arrows for the Grand prize Game and Cookie was doing this…. - BigT - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:44 pm: I’m spreading sunshine all over the world! - bullet - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:48 pm: its howdy doody time….. - Loop Lady - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:49 pm: “Ooooh, I am SO. scared of Mike Madigan, NOT!” - Mittuns - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:54 pm: Ah we can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind Cause your friends don’t dance and if they don’t dance Well they’re are no friends of mine I say, we can go where we want to, A place where they will never find And we can act like we come from out of this world Leave the real one far behind, And we can dance - Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:59 pm: Happy talk, keep talkin’ happy talk, Talk about things you’d like to do. You got to have a dream, If you don’t have a dream, How you gonna have a dream come true? - Bluefish - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 4:59 pm: A classic from NYC: Crazy Brucie is practical giving the state away. His prices are insane!! https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AuITCRsLrd.jR4fc6vcaELSbvZx4?fr=yfp-t-901-s&toggle=1&fp=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&p=crazy%20eddie%20commercials - Vole - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 5:06 pm: I was born a poor black child. Now I’m a rich white song and dance man. - huggybunny - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 5:09 pm: Governor Rauner shows his staff how do the “I love you, you love me” Barney dance/song when addressing him. - Jaded - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 5:13 pm: OW and Mittuns I like your songs better. I was just going for the big hands reference, but I dig the “Safety Dance” and the South Pacific reference is pretty good. In fact, I’ll bet Roberta Lynch would like to “wash that man right out of her hair!” - Under Further Review - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 5:19 pm: Jolson sings again! - Gooner - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 5:21 pm: “THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.” - Anon - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 5:25 pm: “JUST KIDDING” - JS Mill - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 5:58 pm: No, no, no NO! Move out of the way lady! Now THESE are Jazz Hands!! - Almost the Weekend - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 6:04 pm: This is what I really look like without my Carhart Jacket - poor start - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 6:04 pm: (Sound from music box) “Pop goes the weasel” - illinois fan - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 6:27 pm: I have been in my van down by the river toooooo long!?!*@# - Secrecy - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 6:29 pm: Afscme is gone, poof! - illinois fan - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 6:35 pm: Well, gollllly, is that one of them there digital image makers? Do you have to wind that thing up? - Gem I am - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 6:44 pm: Governor Walker come here and give me hug - Gem I am - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 7:02 pm: And then it’s like, there goes their paychecks. - The Wolf - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 7:16 pm: Rauner startled by the ghost of AFSCME - Angry Chicagoan - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 7:16 pm: “So this is how best to greet the legislators?” - Finally Out (formerly Ready to Get Out) - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 7:40 pm: “I am not going to make it a priority to turn Illinois into a right to work state.” “HaHa, just kidding!” - Jasper - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 8:05 pm: Surprise….forget everything I said last fall….I work for the Civic Club - rilt - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 8:40 pm: Ahh you gotta dance a little sidestep and lead the people on - Bill White - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 8:51 pm: Q: Is my staff receiving higher pay than Pat Quinn’s? A: Hey, I have jazz hands - Bill White - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 9:08 pm: Governor Bruce Rauner imitates Alfred E. Newman after word comes out that his staffers are being paid significantly more than Quinn staffers. What? Me worry? Nah! http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20150129/NEWS02/150129748/rauner-staff-receiving-higher-pay-than-quinns?X-IgnoreUserAgent=1 - Anonymous - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 9:27 pm: Mason distress signal - scott aster - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 9:30 pm: goffy - 75th district - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 9:33 pm: I’m cuckoo for cocoa puffs! - Anonymous - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 10:08 pm: Look at the size of that inflated rat! - A Citizen - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 10:50 pm: Oberweis told me to always show the cow your hands like this before milking her. - Tex - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 10:57 pm: “Surprise! I really do hate Unions! HA! Fooled ya” - Under Further Review - Thursday, Jan 29, 15 @ 11:07 pm: Female bystander: “He’s wearing checks and plaids!” - PublicServant - Friday, Jan 30, 15 @ 6:32 am: Here’s Johnny! - lbj - Friday, Jan 30, 15 @ 7:30 am: I pay my staff 10 times more than Quinn’s. - MrGrassroots - Friday, Jan 30, 15 @ 8:26 am: Picture Howdy Doody singing: “Put On A Happy Face” Gray skies are gonna clear up, Put on a happy face; Brush off the clouds and cheer up, Put on a happy face. - sparky791 - Friday, Jan 30, 15 @ 8:27 am: I am this much smarter then people I govern! - illinoised - Friday, Jan 30, 15 @ 8:33 am: Hey, it’s me, I just bought you with $36 million! - Anon. - Friday, Jan 30, 15 @ 8:39 am: When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro! - Anon. - Friday, Jan 30, 15 @ 8:41 am: It’s all about IMAGINATION while I’m governor! - Anonymous - Friday, Jan 30, 15 @ 8:45 am: Hail rauner - Wordslinger - Friday, Jan 30, 15 @ 8:47 am: “Hey, nice Glock. I just stopped by to pick up s couple of squeaky squirrels for my labs.” - doedoa - Friday, Jan 30, 15 @ 9:01 am: I’m rich!! I don’t need a pension, I don’t need a pension. - Hyperbolic Chamber - Friday, Jan 30, 15 @ 9:08 am: “I’ve got to do something like this to ‘get my arms around’ our budget problems.” - 13thone - Friday, Jan 30, 15 @ 9:10 am: When I get indicted this will be my mug shot. Wait, are you kiddin me? They don’t indict for blissful ignorance? WOW, what a great buncha commoner’s. That’s one of the many reasons I love Illinois. Anybody wanna go ta sturgis wit (common speak) me? - Rob Lowe - Friday, Jan 30, 15 @ 9:18 am: Dorothy Will the wizard give me a heart? - Big Joe - Friday, Jan 30, 15 @ 9:26 am: “I”m the Wiz! I’m the Wiz! And Nobody beats me, “cause I’m the Wiz” - One day at a time - Friday, Jan 30, 15 @ 9:41 am: Just realized that Bruce looks like the sunshine actor in the Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwich commercial ….coffee spew seeing this while watching news this AM. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.