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* It’s so hot, ____.

posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:08 am

Comments

Monique Davis’ mind appears to be melting.

Comment by Formerly Known As... Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:11 am
It’s so hot, Speaker Mike Madigan looked like he broke a sweat.

Comment by MrGrassroots Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:16 am
dog?

Comment by chitownboy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:17 am
because of Springfield’s continuing inaction on “pension reform”. Also, a lack of “Pension Reform” is responsible for cancer, and the gulf oil spill too.

Comment by PublicServant Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:18 am
It’s so hot, it must be a conspiracy to make Lisa Madigan governor.

- John Kass

Comment by ChicagoR Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:19 am
The Pixies are joining Riot Fest!

Ok, that’s got nothing to do with the heat…

Comment by Just passing by Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:19 am
Rauner’s campaign makes sense to me…

I applauded Tom Cross’ decision to stay in the House…

Jason Plummer’s Star Wars figures melted ….

Mike Madigan was seen sweating…

the Speaker called Lisa to get some “Cold Shoulder” his way…

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:19 am
It’s so hot, Bruce Rauner’s campaign cash is burning up.

Comment by Whatever Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:19 am
Squeezy refuses to sun himself on the Capitol dome.

Comment by enoughalready Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:20 am
Sen. Oberweis offered me some “Politcal” Ice Cream … and I took it …

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:21 am
It’s so hot that my air conditioner ran out of coolant. The repairman put the White Sox lineup in there to cool things down. It’s nice and cold now.

Comment by 47th Ward Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:23 am
“It is so hot that the Chicago Police Department would do anything for a bottle of water.”

Comment by Timmeh Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:23 am
Kassamoron submitted dumbest piece since hi school and Tribbies ran it

Comment by CircularFiringSquad Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:23 am
I’m not going outside today.

Comment by Chavez-respecting Obamist Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:25 am
PQ’s Motel 6 frequent customer card melted.

Comment by Stones Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:26 am
You could fry an egg on Quinn’s or Daley’s head!

Comment by Rollo Tomasi Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:26 am
It’s so hot, Pat Quinn sounded coherent for a minute.

Comment by OurMagician Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:28 am
…I’d rather be in Denver watching baseball! (and I loathe the Cubs.)

Comment by Amalia Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:30 am
It’s so hot, Chicago’s bond ratings are melting down

Comment by RNUG Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:33 am
The HGOP Golf Outing was canceled, but Tom played anyway …

the frozen Strawberries Jack Dorgan stole, thawed…

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:33 am
… the Statehouse A/C couldn’t keep up with the hot air

Comment by RNUG Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:34 am
It’s so hot, Dwight Kay’s calculator stopped working.

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:36 am
It’s so hot, Bruce Rauner tried to clout his kid into a Canadian school.

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:40 am
It’s so hot, Pongee’s tires are melting from inactivity…

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:42 am
It’s so hot, Lisa Madigan just announced she’s running for prime minister of Sweden.

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:43 am
It’s so hot, the Rauner Rubber Chicken is now grilled…

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:43 am
….rich miller wrote the shortest question of the day in history.

Comment by Publius Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:44 am
fish want to get caught.

armadillos are moving here.

people are going tanning salons for fake bake.

Comment by Loop Lady Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:45 am
It’s so hot, the Rutherford campaign is tweeting pictures of Dan with ice cubes…

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:46 am
It’s so hot, Speaker Madigan has decided to retire and take a position as one of Santa’s elves.

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:47 am
It’s so hot, Jack Franks doesn’t have the strength to return a reporter’s phone call.

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:48 am
It’s so hot, the Gov candidates are only choosing LG mates with pools …

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:49 am
It’s so hot, Rahm is sitting this one out.

Comment by Darienite Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:50 am
It’s so hot, my box of Cannoli looks like chunky soup …

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:51 am
Its so hot I hallucinated Monique Davis winning the nobel literature prize

Comment by RonOglesby Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:52 am
It’s so hot, Todd agreed with Wordslinger yesterday.

[True story.]

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:52 am
It’s so hot, Oscar is asking to be toilet trained.

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:53 am
A Pat Quinn speech actually cooled the room.

Comment by Pot calling kettle Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:53 am
The City of Chicago leased Lake Michigan to a private vendor.

Comment by Jake From Elwood Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:57 am
It’s so hot, ABDI ran out of Beer…

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 11:58 am
The candidates actually took off their Carhartt jackets!

Comment by Ron Burgundy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:00 pm
It’s so hot the butter cow melted in the freezer.

It’s so hot in Illinois the Cheeseheads have locked the door to Wisconsin.

It’s so hot in Illinois Rod Blagojevich thinks he has it pretty good in CO.

Comment by dupage dan Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:04 pm
- Ron Burgundy - and - Jake From Elwood -,

Well done!!

Rich, all I am TRYING to do is trying to keep up with ya …great stuff

It’s so hot, Speaker Madigan’s daily apple was just applesause…

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:05 pm
The Governor stopped by my poolhouse for a meeting over concealed carry

Comment by Todd Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:05 pm
It’s so hot, I think I’ll take the afternoon off.

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:08 pm
It’s so hot, Fox News is doing a story about global warming.

I tried - but Rich - your Jack Franks line is the winner.

Comment by siriusly Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:09 pm
It’s so hot, the Slythern House kool-aid looks mighty refreshing …

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:11 pm
It’s so hot, Pat Quinn went to pension reform committee meeting.

Comment by OurMagician Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:11 pm
Its so hot, Ricketts put a slip and slide in the middle of Wrigley Field and invited the rooftop owners over to join him.

Comment by Anonymous Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:14 pm
It’s so hot, Rahm got up and danced …

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:15 pm
Dang Rich, you beat me to an Oscar comment, but I’ll try: It’s so hot, Oscar opened the refrigerator door, and all of Rich’s beer disappeared….

Comment by downstate commissioner Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:15 pm
It’s so hot, my sunscreen whispered, “Please, not today!”….

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:16 pm
Joe Berrios hired three more relatives just to fan him!

Comment by Ron Burgundy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:17 pm
It’s so hot that Bill Brady has decided not to raise any more campaign money.

Wait… He already did that. My bad.

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:17 pm
It’s so hot, the heat liquified Tom Cross’ 7-iron …

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:17 pm
Ron Burgundy for the lead!

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:19 pm
It’s so hot that Ty Fahner has decided to cave to the unions, just, you know, to get this over with so he can go back to his Olympic sized pool.

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:21 pm
- Ron Burgundy -

Nicely played …

It’s so hot, Kirk’s yard signs turned into atucal Lard …

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:21 pm
Now, OW zooms into the lead!

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:23 pm
It’s so hot that the owner of Boones has decided to invest in a new air conditioner.

(Don’t I wish.)

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:24 pm
Jim Oberweis is actually popular.

Jason Plummer landed a huge popsicle stick contract.

Bruce Rauner is avoiding meeting people and decided to stay home and run TV ads.

Comment by Ron Burgundy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:26 pm
It’s so hot, no one inturrupted Kirk Dillard’s annoucements

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:26 pm
That Speaker Madigan’s icy stare is producing its own rain clouds.

Comment by Ron Burgundy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:27 pm
It’s so hot, Kirk Dillard forgot to mention that he was Jim Edgar’s chief of staff in his stump speech.

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:28 pm
Burgundy regains the lead!

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:29 pm
Rich, the Edgar mention!! Awesome…

It’s so hot, Bill Brady came to Chicago to see about “this big lake eveyone keeps talking about”

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:31 pm
It’s so hot, Pat Quinn is now just going to work tirelessly at night, not day.

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:32 pm
That Alex Clifford said he would stop talking if the Metra board threw in an air conditioned rail car.

Comment by Ron Burgundy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:32 pm
LOL, OW!

It’s so hot, I’m almost thinking of swimming in Lake Springfield.

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:34 pm
It’s so hot, Pat Quinn is using his lucky purple tie as a sweatband.

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:34 pm
Geez, this bar is getting really high …

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:35 pm
I have self-edited 3 that can’t cut “it”…

It’s so hot, Pat Collin’s “hot seat” seems warm at best …

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:42 pm
…bond ratings agencies are warming to illinois’ financial position…

Comment by nothin's easy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:44 pm
It’s so hot, I imagined I read posts that said Monique Davis is saying CPD is responsible for the killings in her neighborhood and Tio Hardiman is thinking about running for governor. Better head to the ER for possible heat stroke.

Comment by West Side the Best Side Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:45 pm
It’s so hot, Google just asked me to use Bing.

Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:46 pm
It’s so hot, Mayor Emanuel was seen dancing in Buckingham Fountain, sans shirt! (video to follow)

Comment by Wensicia Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:47 pm
it’s so hot, the Metra board thinks it will be cooler in a room even if they all appear together.

Comment by Amalia Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:51 pm
It’s so hot that Rauner’s pool is warmer than his hot tub and his steam room!

Comment by Stones Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:52 pm
That Pat Quinn has something in his refrigerator, and that something is Pat Quinn.

Comment by Ron Burgundy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:54 pm
It’s so hot, Edward Snowden hacked into government computers to find the nearest slurpee vendor.

Comment by lake county democrat Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:56 pm
JBT wore a tube top to the office.

Comment by Darienite Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:56 pm
It’s so hot Roland Burris took a break from chiselling more words into his masouleum.

Comment by train111 Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 12:58 pm
It’s so hot Rauner’s cash is burning before he can burn it.

Comment by Arthur Andersen Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:03 pm
It’s so hot, AFSCME is actually requesting that facilities be closed.

Comment by Small Town Liberal Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:06 pm
It’s so hot that Pat Quinn is going to hold a press conference Saturday afternoon to let us all know we should drink plenty of liquids, stay in the shade and check on all our elderly relatives.

Comment by Stones Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:09 pm
It’s so hot, Rich and Oscar are considering shaving one another in areas visible and not visible to passersby. Woof.

Comment by A guy... Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:11 pm
That Pat Quinn is shortening his outdoor speeches today by changing all “Land of Lincoln” references to just “LOL.”

Comment by Ron Burgundy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:12 pm
It’s so Hot. Illinois sweet corn has gone sour.

Comment by Anonymous Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:14 pm
It’s so Hot. Jim Edgar had AC installed on his hair dryer.

Comment by Anonymous Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:16 pm
It’s so hot, Bill Brady let the puppies go…he didn’t need the coats.

Comment by Anon Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:17 pm
I saw a dog chasing a cat and they were both walking!

Comment by Anonymous Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:18 pm
It’s so hot, Madigan decided to let Cross preside over the next Prefunctory Session

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:19 pm
It’s so hot, they’ve renamed an upcoming event “The Illinois State Foul”

Comment by A guy... Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:19 pm
It’s so hot, my dog is asking me to lick him.

Comment by A guy... Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:21 pm
It’s so hot. My slurpee came in a coffe cup.

Comment by Anonymous Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:21 pm
It’s so hot. The pension debt just melted away.

Comment by Anonymous Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:23 pm
It’s so hot, the White Sox are going to wear shorts again…

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:23 pm
It’s so hot a lot of local snitches are begging to swim with the fishes.

Comment by A guy... Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:24 pm
Oh God OW, I hope not! (white sox wearing shorts)

Comment by A guy... Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:25 pm
It’s so hot the comments on this topic are about to reach the same level as the heat index.

Comment by A guy... Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:25 pm
It’s so hot. Cellini’s asphalt business just liquefied.

Comment by Anonymous Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:26 pm
100!

- A guy …-, the White Sox wore shorts in the 70s for a spell, wasn’t a good look then either.

It’s so hot, the Jesse White Tumblers are just sitting by a pool.

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:27 pm
OW, I remember the Black Shorts Scandal very well. Still have nightmares.

Comment by A guy... Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:29 pm
It’s so hot, I’m starting to like Illinois.

Comment by Rufus Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:31 pm
- A guy …-, apologies for bringing back the bad visual …again.

It’s so hot, Chuck Goudie decided chasing anyone today would be a bad idea

Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:35 pm
It’s so hot Illinois Review blogged about a bunch of legislators posting on FB about how hot is was.

Comment by Rep. Ed Sullivan Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:42 pm
I early voted for Plummer…twice.
Jesse White started a polar plunge team.
I just saw a guy burning grass in a ditch - seriously.
The housing market melted…again.

Comment by Midstate Indy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 1:56 pm
Adam Andrzejewski closed the books.

Comment by Midstate Indy Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 2:05 pm
Its so hot, oscar the puppy is in the tub wanting a bath w/cold water

Rich we want pics

Comment by Todd Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 2:09 pm
It’s so hot Sheila Simon was spotted in a bikini and no one went blind.

Comment by Bad Thoughts Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 2:09 pm
Bad wins but I need to bleach my minds eyebafter that

Comment by Todd Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 2:21 pm
It’s so hot they took pension reform off of the front burner

Comment by golfman_r Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 2:25 pm
Its so hot … there’s no water left for politicans to get into hot water.

Comment by RNUG Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 2:27 pm
…that locals have taken refuge inside the Armory.

…that Capitol Police are encouraging visitors to play in the fountain.

…that the price of an ice cream cone closely resembles that of a shot of whiskey at the top of the Hilton.

…that people have willingly jumped into the Des Plaines River.

…that Dan Rutherford sent his staff home early.

…that Derrick Smith went to the movies even though the only thing playing was “Despicable Me 2.”

Comment by Dirty Red Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 2:37 pm
…molten lava is evaporating.

Comment by Judgment Day Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 2:49 pm
… that Gov. Quinn and DCEO Dir. Pollet are pleased to announce the relocation to Illinois of Lucifer & Associates.

Comment by x ace Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 3:26 pm
It’s not that hot. Democratic targets are still knocking on doors!

Comment by Blue Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 3:45 pm
…that I’m MELTing, I’m MELTing, Dorothy My PreTTY!!!

Comment by Just The Way It Is One Friday, Jul 19, 13 @ 3:48 pm