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Friday, Jul 22, 2016 - Posted by Rich Miller
* From a longtime commenter…
Meanwhile, at “Symphony at the Park”… Pat Quinn… gathers signatures. He seems a bit oblivious that people are trying to escape from politics right now… Scoffs at people when they say no.
* The pic…
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 9:45 am:
“I know you’re enjoying the music, just sign and I’ll leave you alone… “
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 9:45 am:
“I don’t want to ruin your night, I want you to make my day… “
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 9:48 am:
“What music? I thought it was all about me?”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 9:48 am:
“You should sign. ‘No?’ Ok, I’ll just block your view until you sign… This is me being nice… “
- Bogey Golfer - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 9:48 am:
“Really wanted to sell beer at Wrigley, but my doctor said this was all I could carry.”
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 9:48 am:
“That other guy just claimed he was playing the World’s Smallest Violin for me too…”
- Anonymous - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 9:48 am:
“Make Pat Relevant Again!”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 9:49 am:
“I used to be governor, buddy. THAT’s what keeps me from getting arrested.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 9:49 am:
“Oh. You WORK for Rahm… you can sign, he won’t know.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 9:50 am:
“One clipboard makes you important. Three make you obnoxious.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 9:50 am:
“I’ll buy you the CD or the tape for your Walkman… just sign… “
- Nick Name - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 9:51 am:
“Uh, who are you again?”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 9:52 am:
“It’s old music. Heard for centuries. This petition is new. Sign it, then you can go back and listen to stale music… k?”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 9:52 am:
“Grandma, who’s that rude guy interrupting the concert?”
“Well, honey, I’m not sure. It looks like either Ringmaster Ned or Ed Asner.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 9:54 am:
“Oh. You’ll only sign if I don’t run for Mayor… enjoy your evening. No, you don’t need to sign… “
- Rabid - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 9:54 am:
Yep I’m an expert in term limits
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 9:55 am:
“You’re a Pritzker? Well, I’m sure you want to sign so I’ll leave as quickly as possible… “
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 9:56 am:
“Like the CSO I keep coming Bach. Bach. Get it?”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 9:56 am:
“For the last time, mister, I don’t want to change my electric carrier to Joltin’ Juice, so leave me alone, okay?”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 9:58 am:
Old governors don’t die, they just refuse to fade away.
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 9:59 am:
“No I’m not in prison like the guy before me. I just dress like I am.”
- A guy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:02 am:
I landed my ship here because you looked like you were comfortable and enjoying yourselves. Those are the folks who sign fast just so I’ll get back on my spacecraft and head elsewhere.
- Rabid - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:02 am:
Your illiterate?
- Senator Clay Davis - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:02 am:
You know he was actually saying one or both of these things:
“Make the will of the people the law of the land”
or
“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and organize!”
#PQGreatestHits
He may be kinda irrelevant, but you gotta hand it to him, the guy is dedicated. Most former Illinois governors go to jail, Quinn goes back to grassroots organizing. I gotta respect that.
- A guy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:03 am:
Hurry up and sign. I still gotta cut my grass.
- Joe M - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:04 am:
[The background of the photo looks so chaotic - quite a contrast to an orderly image a politician would want to portray]
“Straight and narrow Quinn” in a world of randomness and chaos.
- Just Me - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:05 am:
C’mon, dude….just enjoy your retirement and go away.
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:06 am:
“After this I’m going to the Movies in the Park showing of The Shawshank Redemption. I’m going as Brooks.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:08 am:
“Why am I here? Because there were no church services to interrupt.”
- @MisterJayEm - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:11 am:
“Thank you for your signature Mister… Bach Beethoven? Come on!!”
– MrJM
- Greatplainser - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:12 am:
I’m super serial! Manbearpig is right over there!
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:13 am:
“Security jerks took my ironing board.”
- Robert the Bruce - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:21 am:
“Streetwise, Streetwise!”
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:21 am:
“If it ain’t Baroque don’t fix it? Ha ha, that’s a good one, Sir. Sign the darn thing.”
- Rabid - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:23 am:
Quinnochio they made you into a chair?
- AlfondoGonz - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:24 am:
“Good afternoon, my name is Pat Quinn and I am a born-again Governor spreading the gospel of term limits for elected officials. Do you have a moment to discuss the word of the Board…of men and women who advise me in my ambition to return to the executive’s chair?”
- RIJ - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:25 am:
The photo definition of Desperation.
- Rabid - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:28 am:
Madigan’s flunky gathering information for the machine
- Wensicia - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:38 am:
“I’ll gather many more signatures if I go to the Chicago Botanic Garden? Thanks, I’m heading out there right now!”
- Rabid - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:38 am:
Standing pat
- Slippin' Jimmy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:39 am:
Any of you’se help me find this Pokemon dude?
- Jose Abreu's next homer - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:39 am:
I’ll mow your lawn if you sign this.
- 47th Ward - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:41 am:
Thanks for signing Hugh. Is this your wife, are you Mrs. Jass? Would you like to sign too?
- Birdseed - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:42 am:
“You see, I lost the last election on purpose because I wanted MY term limit clock to start over”.
- Rabid - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:44 am:
No this is to sign up for new book “to serve man”
- Rabid - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:47 am:
Squeezee I said kiss the baby not eat the baby
- Dr X - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:50 am:
Why won’t you sign? What are you? Illiterate?
- 47th Ward - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:52 am:
If I sell the most subscriptions I win a free trip to the Wisconsin Dells and I really really want that trip.
- 47th Ward - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:57 am:
Jablowmey? That’s a funny name. Is that Lithuanian?
- Anonymous - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:59 am:
“Is that a mosquito in my ear? Oh, its Pat Quinn; same thing”
- Tommydanger - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 10:59 am:
10:59 was me
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 11:03 am:
“Why yes passing petitions this time of year can be quite hazardous. These metal clipboard thingys get really hot!”
- Arthur Andersen - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 11:05 am:
“Well…yes, maybe I would get you a hotdog if you signed this for me.”
- Rabid - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 11:05 am:
I got some state of illimois laptops for sale here
- Soccermom - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 11:40 am:
47th, you are just silly.
Sincerely,
Anita Mann
- Just sayin' - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 11:47 am:
Hi, I’m Pat Quinn. I used to be the governor but now I just wander the streets like the “Walkin’ Dude.” But he gets more attention than me!
- A guy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 11:53 am:
==47th, you are just silly.===
Couldn’t agree more. Sign the sheet.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 12:00 pm:
“And after you sign, I have some delicious candy bars for sale.”
- Dan S - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 12:01 pm:
Every village has one.
- 47th Ward - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 12:15 pm:
Anita F. Hardt?
- Soccermom - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 12:16 pm:
I don’t know if you remember me, 47th, but we went to the same high school. You were in my civics class! (My maiden name was Hardt, if that helps.)
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 12:26 pm:
“Hey… Hey!!.. My pen!”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 12:27 pm:
“Sir, that’s almost impossible to do… physically… “
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 12:28 pm:
“That’s right, if I were to run for Mayor, I wouldn’t run for Governor… I think… I dunno… maybe… “
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 12:30 pm:
“I’m not going to dance for you. K? I’m not going to dance… you and your wife will sign… them too… that’s if I dance… I dance, you sign… No, you sign first… they tried that over there… I’m not falling for it… again… “
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 12:31 pm:
“You went to Fenwick?… and you still won’t sign… that’s not a very pious thing to say… “
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 12:33 pm:
“I guess Buckingham Fountain has lots of people too, but you’re sitting here and I have you cornered… “
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 12:34 pm:
“No, ma’am, I’m not Ronnie Woo-Woo, I’m former governor Pat Quinn… Let me give you one of my cards… “
- Rabid - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 12:37 pm:
Sit down you, the govenor is doing a French horn solo
- Keyser Soze - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 1:07 pm:
Why won’t this guy just go away?
- The End Is Near - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 2:09 pm:
I just checked in to see what condition my petition was in.
- Whatever - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 2:38 pm:
“I feel like Gordon at Khartoum.”
- Arthur Andersen - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 3:18 pm:
“Your name is really Arthur Andersen?”
- A guy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 3:35 pm:
47, you went to school with a hottie like Soccermom and don’t remember? Dude, you’re even dimmer than I thought. lol
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 4:05 pm:
“Yeah, no more Rahm, but that’s not why I’m doing it… Because I love Chicago… anyone could run, not just me… Look, you want Rahm gone or not?… “
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 4:06 pm:
“No, I’ve only been your governor… so, yeah, only 8 years… ok, how about 5 years and I run for something else… “
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 4:07 pm:
“I can’t your street paved, Rahm won’t take my calls these day… can you sign now?… “
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 4:08 pm:
“Whadda mean “down in front”, it’s music, nothing to see… Geez, get a grip… “
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jul 22, 16 @ 4:10 pm:
“Well, I cut the House seats in the General Assembly by a third and that went well… “