“Multiple people were injured at the Statehouse today, after falling while abiding by a sign warning of multiple steps when in fact there was only one in that location.”
Schoolhouse Rock, Capitol Edition. “A noun is a person, place, or thing.” Next week, it will be “Unpack Your Adjectives”, describing the steps as “Tall”, “Blocky”, and “Wide”.
====Thought they would have put that there when Slip and Sue was still around.=====
I am pretty sure that sign has been there for a few years. Probably as long ago when she was there.
I missed that exact step walking out of the Capitol a month ago and bottom out my right hip (I did not get hurt at all) it was embarrassing more than anything. I can see why that sign is there.
“That sign doesn’t refer to Steps, that’s actually an acronym Madigan used to use when reviewing Saputo’s. Saputo’s Tastes Exceptionally Primo Scrumptous.”
- Tom Collins - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 1:52 pm:
Read: not ADA-compliant
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 1:54 pm:
(sign in the background): “Doors”
- The Opinions Bureau - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 1:54 pm:
“The Illinois GOP plan to improve the state’s finances”
- fs - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 1:54 pm:
“Multiple people were injured at the Statehouse today, after falling while abiding by a sign warning of multiple steps when in fact there was only one in that location.”
- Earnest - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 1:55 pm:
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- Huh? - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 1:59 pm:
Duh.
- Huh? - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 1:59 pm:
Wonder how much the vendor got for the sign.
- Pot calling kettle - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:00 pm:
With a significant portion of the population refusing the COVID vaccine, there was a realization that some folks do not recognize the obvious.
- Grimlock - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:03 pm:
Thought they would have put that there when Slip and Sue was still around.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:04 pm:
Signs don’t vote
- thisjustinagain - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:04 pm:
Schoolhouse Rock, Capitol Edition. “A noun is a person, place, or thing.” Next week, it will be “Unpack Your Adjectives”, describing the steps as “Tall”, “Blocky”, and “Wide”.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:05 pm:
=== Slip and Sue===
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They did. This was one of them, they cut off “watch” and “your” from this sign.
- Commonsense in Illinois - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:06 pm:
Illinois Democrats announce new competency test for prospective candidates…
- Norseman - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:06 pm:
First came the death of critical thinking skills. Then came the death of thinking.
- EssentialStateEmployeeFromChatham - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:06 pm:
How much did this sign cost?
- Ron Burgundy - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:08 pm:
Here’s your sign.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:08 pm:
Wait. Where’s the union bug?
- zatoichi - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:10 pm:
Where is the supervisor who can count how many people read the sign?
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:10 pm:
And the sign said, “You’ve got to have a membership card to get inside.”
- Norseman - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:11 pm:
Government response to frivolous lawsuits.
- The Real Captain - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:11 pm:
[Comment]
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:11 pm:
“No, I *didn’t* trip on the steps, there was a sign to warn me, I tripped on the sign warning me about the steps”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:12 pm:
After Trumpkins thought these were escalator stairs, the Secretary of State today…
- Tommydanger - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:16 pm:
Stop
Telling
Everyone
Pritzker
Stinks
- Ducky LaMoore - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:18 pm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl6s6DGapug
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:20 pm:
“This has to be a signal from Q… it has to be”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:23 pm:
“I’m looking for the sign that says ‘ramp’… you seen that?”
- Been There - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:25 pm:
====Thought they would have put that there when Slip and Sue was still around.=====
I am pretty sure that sign has been there for a few years. Probably as long ago when she was there.
- Kayak - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:26 pm:
We admitted we were powerless in Illinois, that our lives had become unmanageable
- CEA - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:27 pm:
Number Of Days Since Someone Was Injured Tripping Over This Sign In The Middle Of The Steps: 0
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:28 pm:
Herding the cats goes next level…
Being a mushroom means reading the signs…
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:30 pm:
‘… “Steps”… I still don’t believe it”
- cover - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:33 pm:
Another reminder that the movie “Idiocracy” was in fact a documentary
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:37 pm:
“Huh. All these years. Called them stairs. Boy I feel silly”
- Gerard2 - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:40 pm:
The sign at the other entrance says “Lanes.”
- SAP - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:41 pm:
http://www.cancelledscifi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/batman-ABC-1966.jpg
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:45 pm:
“That reminds me, where’s my Fitbit, I need to get in my steps…”
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:46 pm:
Ironically, there are 12
- Dotnonymous - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:49 pm:
Blog
- Keyrock - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:51 pm:
It’s a metaphor for how candidates have viewed the General Assembly - even before Obama went to the Senate and became President.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:52 pm:
“No, man, see… it’s like the word ‘steps’ are like… a staircase… and it’s like… we *are* the steps, man… like a vertical… that’s so deep”
- A Jack - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 2:53 pm:
Probably expecting a split from Chicago delegation today.
- aufjunk - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 3:02 pm:
Years ago, when our state office building was planning an Open House, one of the stated goals was to provide “visual aids for the blind.”
- From DaZoo - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 3:27 pm:
Grassroots campaign to try to bring back Capitol Steps.
- Give Us Barabbas - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 3:29 pm:
The first one is to admit that you have a problem…
- Kippax Blue - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 3:47 pm:
At least the sign was honest— it could have read “Work Zone”.
- Back to the Future - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 4:09 pm:
OW is on a roll today.
- Mama - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 4:15 pm:
I think it is time to go back to basic teaching in the schools. We have failed the kids.
- Mama - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 4:18 pm:
Now it is time to do the steps exercise. One step, two steps, three steps more….
- Citizen Kane - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 4:26 pm:
I missed that exact step walking out of the Capitol a month ago and bottom out my right hip (I did not get hurt at all) it was embarrassing more than anything. I can see why that sign is there.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 4:27 pm:
- Back to the Future -
Thanks. I’m taking it one step at a time.
“Caption?”
“This new fitness trail on the Capitol grounds isn’t very inventive.”
- IllinoisBoi - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 4:29 pm:
Isn’t there a political comedy and satire troupe called The Capitol Steps? Was this their doing?
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 4:35 pm:
“Whoever this Steps character is, they got some primo parking during the renovation”
- Bruce( no not him) - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 4:43 pm:
The other side says “also steps”.
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 5:25 pm:
The other side says “mis-“
- McLeanist - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 5:48 pm:
I’m actually a little happy it doesn’t say STEP’S.
- Sir Reel - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 6:39 pm:
Cossacks enter here.
- Out of Illinois - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 7:52 pm:
Members of the House, Senate, and Governor’s staff enter here.
- EssentialStateEmployeeFromChatham - Wednesday, Jul 21, 21 @ 8:05 pm:
“That sign doesn’t refer to Steps, that’s actually an acronym Madigan used to use when reviewing Saputo’s. Saputo’s Tastes Exceptionally Primo Scrumptous.”