Friday, Sep 30, 2016 - Posted by Rich Miller
* From the twitters…
Thank you Speaker it was great meeting you. Michael Madigan Speaker of the House. pic.twitter.com/UCQYHkstn5 — ESDC (@ESDCPilsen) September 23, 2016
Thank you Speaker it was great meeting you. Michael Madigan Speaker of the House. pic.twitter.com/UCQYHkstn5
— ESDC (@ESDCPilsen) September 23, 2016
* The Question: Caption?
- Red Ranger - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:45 pm:
“I sure hope the Speaker put this pic on his Instagram”
- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:46 pm:
Mike Madigan and the pants height he controls
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:47 pm:
“Sir, please. If you hold that hand too tight, the wax needs to be touched up… “
- Big Muddy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:47 pm:
no caption but a question. Is Madigan literally melting through his shoes? His armpits are going to chaffing on his belt shortly.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:48 pm:
“How about something… a little less… posed? Better… “
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:49 pm:
“No, I’m sure. The proportions seemed ok at the time… “
- AlfondoGonz - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:49 pm:
“I thought these carpets would age more gracefully when I picked them out in 1970″
- Boone's is Back - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:50 pm:
The incredible shrinking man
- @MisterJayEm - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:50 pm:
At this rate, by 2020 the Speaker’s inseam and fly will be the same length.
– MrJM
- Norseman - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:50 pm:
Either the Speaker is shrinking or his pants are growing.
- Rich Miller - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:50 pm:
MJM: You know, one day my pants will be pulled up so high I won’t need a shirt. Just long gloves and a dickie.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:50 pm:
“Sir… yes, the model does look life-like, but it’s not him… ‘How do I know?’… the model blinked, ok… “
- anon - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:52 pm:
#PantsHikeMike
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:52 pm:
“It was either hike up my pants or not show off my new Buster Browns… “
- Grand Avenue - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:53 pm:
Madigan’s pants are so high because the young man is giving him a wedgie - that’s why you don’t see his left hand
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:54 pm:
“… well I heard it’s because belly buttons frighten him so he has to have his covered at all times… “
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:56 pm:
“Now it makes sense why I saw the Speaker at ‘Big and Tall’… “
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:57 pm:
“…No, he just stands on an end table and jumps in them. Easier to get them on that way… “
- Norseman - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:57 pm:
Does this mean we’re pants shaming the Speaker?
My bad!
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:59 pm:
Pantalones Gigante!
- Responsa - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:01 pm:
“These are not my pants.” (What I’ve heard is a favorite excuse offered to police when something untoward is found on a suspect.)
- Faker - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:06 pm:
Rich, your bing news feed on the left side is promoting all the fake newspapers from Liberty Principles PAC. “Rauner calls for political referendums…”
- Bogey Golfer - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:09 pm:
But is he able to save money by buying his shirts from the boys’ department?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:11 pm:
“… and the deep-pockets of Mike Madigan… “
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:12 pm:
“We call these pants the ‘Pockets to Your Elbows’, business casual… “
- Saluki - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:13 pm:
pants
- Ahoy! - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:13 pm:
Madigan teaches a young man that the more powerful you become, the higher your inseam must be.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:14 pm:
“If you can’t fit $83 dollars in quarters in each pocket, you get the pants for free…”
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:16 pm:
Pictured: A Hispanic community leader and Governor Rauner’s piñata.
- Big Muddy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:18 pm:
“No 32-37 isn’t revenue versus expenses. it’s my pants size! This has all been a big misunderstanding…”
- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:22 pm:
I wanted a photo with Penn & Teller, but I could not find Penn and Teller would tell me where to find him.
- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:23 pm:
“See with pants like these, I’m able to sneak out bread from Saputo’s…haven’t bought a loaf in years.”
- A guy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:26 pm:
Hey, let’s do this in front of a futuristic painting of….me.
- VanillaMan - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:26 pm:
As the speaker aged, the waist of his slacks moved upward, like rings on a tree. By the time he reached his 80th year of life, Mr. Speaker could only converse by unzipping his trouser fly.
I’d switch over to suspenders, but they don’t make ‘em that short.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:27 pm:
“The pants, from the Bruce Rauner Costumes collection, are very well made, but can only be bought in one size… “
- VanillaMan - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:27 pm:
My tailor is Fred Mertz.
- A guy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:28 pm:
And after my last apple of the day, I go home and play Scrabble on my shirt.
- A guy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:29 pm:
My dark pants reveal dandruff.
- A guy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:30 pm:
When I get really ticked, I just bite down on my belt.
- A guy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:32 pm:
Shirts that fit me are hard to find. T-shirts; impossible.
- VanillaMan - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:32 pm:
Why yes - I DO wear Spanx! How could you tell?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:33 pm:
“They put their pants on same way we do!”
Lou Holtz, former Head Coach University of Notre Dame
- Huh? - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:34 pm:
At least I don’t wear costumes to mislead people that I am one of them.
- Huh? - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:35 pm:
What’s this fascination with my pants? I’m like most people and wear my belt around my waist. It just happens to be higher than average.
- Huh? - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:36 pm:
Touching the hand of power in Illinois.
- Huh? - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:37 pm:
Godfather, will you be my friend?
- A guy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:37 pm:
I love this carpet. You can slaughter anything here and it doesn’t show.
- A guy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:38 pm:
As soon as we get this quickie, snappy, selfie; whatever you call it, I’m going back behind the curtain.
- Cubs in '16 - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:41 pm:
Posing with the newest balloon in the upcoming Macy’s T’giving Day parade…
- West Side The Best Side - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:42 pm:
Tim Conway’s Little Old Man goes to Springfield.
- Six Degrees of Separation - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:43 pm:
“Dude, your pants are higher than Cheech Marin!”
- Big Lu - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:45 pm:
WORK IT, URKEL!
- Anon - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:48 pm:
“Pants on the ground, pants on the ground.”
- Give Me A Break - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:49 pm:
Big Lu, you owe me a keyboard. You killed it.
- Big Mike - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:49 pm:
Michael, you have little hands!!
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:51 pm:
“When I find the guy that told Mike to put on his big boy pants… “
- Get a Job!! - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:54 pm:
I like those pants, let me ask you, where do you find a 24″ waist, 40″ inseam?
- A guy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:58 pm:
And the best part of these pants is that they come with footies that look like shoes!
- A guy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:59 pm:
Is it kind of funny that not a single person has even inquired as to who the other guy is?
- Railrat - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 4:00 pm:
I’d ask you to sit Mr. Speaker but I had to sell all the furniture because of your taxation ! But hey “damn glad to meet ya”
- A guy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 4:01 pm:
Ok Pilsen is the location; Que pasa con estos pantalones?
- Amalia - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 4:13 pm:
MJM sends Ed Grimley to a meeting.
- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 4:14 pm:
His pants are “Higher than Corey Haim…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLnHOQ2YZ58
- Henry Francis - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 4:29 pm:
I like my policies and governing to be in moderation, but my pant height extreme!!!
- anonymous - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 4:31 pm:
Odd that Rich turned off comments on Munger donation from “Rauner’s pals” but not anywhere else. Could be Rauner has another “bestie.”
- Vato Loco - Monday, Oct 3, 16 @ 7:24 pm:
He heard that he was meeting with a Hispanic group and he thought “Cholo” pants would help garner support…
Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.
- Red Ranger - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:45 pm:
“I sure hope the Speaker put this pic on his Instagram”
- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:46 pm:
Mike Madigan and the pants height he controls
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:47 pm:
“Sir, please. If you hold that hand too tight, the wax needs to be touched up… “
- Big Muddy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:47 pm:
no caption but a question. Is Madigan literally melting through his shoes? His armpits are going to chaffing on his belt shortly.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:48 pm:
“How about something… a little less… posed? Better… “
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:49 pm:
“No, I’m sure. The proportions seemed ok at the time… “
- AlfondoGonz - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:49 pm:
“I thought these carpets would age more gracefully when I picked them out in 1970″
- Boone's is Back - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:50 pm:
The incredible shrinking man
- @MisterJayEm - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:50 pm:
At this rate, by 2020 the Speaker’s inseam and fly will be the same length.
– MrJM
- Norseman - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:50 pm:
Either the Speaker is shrinking or his pants are growing.
- Rich Miller - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:50 pm:
MJM: You know, one day my pants will be pulled up so high I won’t need a shirt. Just long gloves and a dickie.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:50 pm:
“Sir… yes, the model does look life-like, but it’s not him… ‘How do I know?’… the model blinked, ok… “
- anon - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:52 pm:
#PantsHikeMike
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:52 pm:
“It was either hike up my pants or not show off my new Buster Browns… “
- Grand Avenue - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:53 pm:
Madigan’s pants are so high because the young man is giving him a wedgie - that’s why you don’t see his left hand
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:54 pm:
“… well I heard it’s because belly buttons frighten him so he has to have his covered at all times… “
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:56 pm:
“Now it makes sense why I saw the Speaker at ‘Big and Tall’… “
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:57 pm:
“…No, he just stands on an end table and jumps in them. Easier to get them on that way… “
- Norseman - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:57 pm:
Does this mean we’re pants shaming the Speaker?
My bad!
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 2:59 pm:
Pantalones Gigante!
- Responsa - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:01 pm:
“These are not my pants.” (What I’ve heard is a favorite excuse offered to police when something untoward is found on a suspect.)
- Faker - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:06 pm:
Rich, your bing news feed on the left side is promoting all the fake newspapers from Liberty Principles PAC. “Rauner calls for political referendums…”
- Bogey Golfer - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:09 pm:
But is he able to save money by buying his shirts from the boys’ department?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:11 pm:
“… and the deep-pockets of Mike Madigan… “
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:12 pm:
“We call these pants the ‘Pockets to Your Elbows’, business casual… “
- Saluki - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:13 pm:
pants
- Ahoy! - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:13 pm:
Madigan teaches a young man that the more powerful you become, the higher your inseam must be.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:14 pm:
“If you can’t fit $83 dollars in quarters in each pocket, you get the pants for free…”
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:16 pm:
Pictured: A Hispanic community leader and Governor Rauner’s piñata.
- Big Muddy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:18 pm:
“No 32-37 isn’t revenue versus expenses. it’s my pants size! This has all been a big misunderstanding…”
- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:22 pm:
I wanted a photo with Penn & Teller, but I could not find Penn and Teller would tell me where to find him.
- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:23 pm:
“See with pants like these, I’m able to sneak out bread from Saputo’s…haven’t bought a loaf in years.”
- A guy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:26 pm:
Hey, let’s do this in front of a futuristic painting of….me.
- VanillaMan - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:26 pm:
As the speaker aged, the waist of his slacks moved upward, like rings on a tree. By the time he reached his 80th year of life, Mr. Speaker could only converse by unzipping his trouser fly.
- A guy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:26 pm:
I’d switch over to suspenders, but they don’t make ‘em that short.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:27 pm:
“The pants, from the Bruce Rauner Costumes collection, are very well made, but can only be bought in one size… “
- VanillaMan - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:27 pm:
My tailor is Fred Mertz.
- A guy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:28 pm:
And after my last apple of the day, I go home and play Scrabble on my shirt.
- A guy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:29 pm:
My dark pants reveal dandruff.
- A guy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:30 pm:
When I get really ticked, I just bite down on my belt.
- A guy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:32 pm:
Shirts that fit me are hard to find. T-shirts; impossible.
- VanillaMan - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:32 pm:
Why yes - I DO wear Spanx!
How could you tell?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:33 pm:
“They put their pants on same way we do!”
Lou Holtz, former Head Coach
University of Notre Dame
- Huh? - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:34 pm:
At least I don’t wear costumes to mislead people that I am one of them.
- Huh? - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:35 pm:
What’s this fascination with my pants? I’m like most people and wear my belt around my waist. It just happens to be higher than average.
- Huh? - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:36 pm:
Touching the hand of power in Illinois.
- Huh? - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:37 pm:
Godfather, will you be my friend?
- A guy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:37 pm:
I love this carpet. You can slaughter anything here and it doesn’t show.
- A guy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:38 pm:
As soon as we get this quickie, snappy, selfie; whatever you call it, I’m going back behind the curtain.
- Cubs in '16 - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:41 pm:
Posing with the newest balloon in the upcoming Macy’s T’giving Day parade…
- West Side The Best Side - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:42 pm:
Tim Conway’s Little Old Man goes to Springfield.
- Six Degrees of Separation - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:43 pm:
“Dude, your pants are higher than Cheech Marin!”
- Big Lu - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:45 pm:
WORK IT, URKEL!
- Anon - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:48 pm:
“Pants on the ground, pants on the ground.”
- Give Me A Break - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:49 pm:
Big Lu, you owe me a keyboard. You killed it.
- Big Mike - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:49 pm:
Michael, you have little hands!!
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:51 pm:
“When I find the guy that told Mike to put on his big boy pants… “
- Get a Job!! - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:54 pm:
I like those pants, let me ask you, where do you find a 24″ waist, 40″ inseam?
- A guy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:58 pm:
And the best part of these pants is that they come with footies that look like shoes!
- A guy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 3:59 pm:
Is it kind of funny that not a single person has even inquired as to who the other guy is?
- Railrat - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 4:00 pm:
I’d ask you to sit Mr. Speaker but I had to sell all the furniture because of your taxation ! But hey “damn glad to meet ya”
- A guy - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 4:01 pm:
Ok Pilsen is the location;
Que pasa con estos pantalones?
- Amalia - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 4:13 pm:
MJM sends Ed Grimley to a meeting.
- Anonymous - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 4:14 pm:
His pants are “Higher than Corey Haim…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLnHOQ2YZ58
- Henry Francis - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 4:29 pm:
I like my policies and governing to be in moderation, but my pant height extreme!!!
- anonymous - Friday, Sep 30, 16 @ 4:31 pm:
Odd that Rich turned off comments on Munger donation from “Rauner’s pals” but not anywhere else. Could be Rauner has another “bestie.”
- Vato Loco - Monday, Oct 3, 16 @ 7:24 pm:
He heard that he was meeting with a Hispanic group and he thought “Cholo” pants would help garner support…