# Blago! I piss on your grave. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 30, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743 "2009-01-30T18:13:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Peanut\_Gallery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/838e76/32.png) [@Peanut\_Gallery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanut_Gallery)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743/21 "2009-01-31T00:53:57Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I agree completely with the OP, and I also think “Blago! I piss on your grave” sounds like an Eastern European horror movie. Or maybe a Viking Saga! He’s got the personality for it. And can you _imagine_ the beard that man could grow? ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743/22 "2009-01-31T01:01:02Z")
> [@Enfant Terrible](#): > > “blah blah blah Kipling yada yada Oprah snort giggle health care the fix is in the sun was in my eyes…” Gaaaah! Sir, what do I have to give in order to use this as my signature? Great OP too. Usually people I think are weird looking grow on me and eventually appear quite normal. The more I saw of this guy’s face, the weirder he looked. Didn’y he, y’all? ---
**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743/23 "2009-01-31T01:19:45Z")
[CNN](http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/30/blagojevich.gone/index.html) has an article about how they didn’t waste time taking down things like Blagojevich’s picture and name plaque. I’ll be pleased once they take down the “ROD R. BLAGOJEVICH, GOVERNER” signs on every damned toll plaza and booth in the goddamned state. I’ll be on the road next weekend, and I’ll be surprised if they’re still up then. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743/24 "2009-01-31T01:45:24Z")
> [@Khan](#): > > “ROD R. BLAGOJEVICH, GOVERNER” Who made those signs? Was it the same guys who painted this: [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/\_HhTFA5IQc0E/RoqMyE07yoI/AAAAAAAAAe0/ih3zjtBCZig/s400/Road%2520sign.jpg](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HhTFA5IQc0E/RoqMyE07yoI/AAAAAAAAAe0/ih3zjtBCZig/s400/Road%2520sign.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743/25 "2009-01-31T02:07:04Z")
I dunno who made them, but apparently they [cost $15,000 apiece and there were 33 of them](http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=268362). :eek: There are also [68 “Welcome to Illinois” signs](http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=268134) with his name on them that each cost $600. The particular sign in that article is at the Boughton Road exit on 355, and I drove by it every weekend I went back up to the city to visit my girlfriend. It’s nice that the scenery on the drive there and back will be improved now. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743/26 "2009-01-31T03:45:21Z")
To the OP: Brilliant. So much disgust, so well worded. And with a bit of Chick. (HAW HAW HAW) I’m happily married, but I think I love you. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743/27 "2009-01-31T04:02:57Z")
Re: the signage - Illinois in general and Chicago in particular have a love affair with putting signs eeeeeverywhere. Practically every goddamn thing in Chicago has a sign proclaiming “CITY OF CHICAGO: RICHARD M. DALEY, MAYOR.” I don’t think I’ve ever seen this tradition anywhere else, although I hear it’s also popular in that other haven of clean governance, New Orleans. It’s weird and a waste of money and I think I’ll write to my congressperson about it, but I am not actually sure that I am still represented in congress by an Illinoisan - I registered to vote in Michigan this year, but I am still technically a resident of Illinois. (My tuition bill makes it pretty clear I am not a Michigan resident, anyway.) Any thoughts? (Also, who the hell would my congressperson be, anyway? It used to be Rahm Emanuel.) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743/28 "2009-01-31T06:22:19Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > (Also, who the hell would my congressperson be, anyway? It used to be Rahm Emanuel.) You’ll have to wait until bidding is closed. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743/29 "2009-01-31T07:47:21Z")
When ever I see this thread I think “From Hell’s heart I stab at thee” -Khan from Star Trek TOS ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743/30 "2009-01-31T08:31:48Z")
Hear, hear! Awesome OP. This is the best news we Illinoisans have gotten since Obama got elected. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743/31 "2009-01-31T13:12:04Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > You’ll have to wait until bidding is closed. Yes, check ebay for a list of bidd…, er, candidates. ---
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743/32 "2009-01-31T13:40:35Z")
> [@Khan](#): > > [CNN](http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/30/blagojevich.gone/index.html) has an article about how they didn’t waste time taking down things like Blagojevich’s picture and name plaque. I’ll be pleased once they take down the “ROD R. BLAGOJEVICH, GOVERNER” signs on every damned toll plaza and booth in the goddamned state. I’ll be on the road next weekend, and I’ll be surprised if they’re still up then. The record for sign changing has to go to Jane Byrne (former mayor of Chicago). I swear, it didn’t take her 24 hours to have every road sign, public area and garbage truck sporting a brand new “Jane M. Byrne, Mayor” sign. That woman was almost as ego maniacal as Blogo. It must be something in the water. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743/33 "2009-01-31T14:14:30Z")
I’m driving down to the Ikea in Schaumburg later this morning… I’ll report back if all the signs have been removed from I-90. And O’Hare is the only airport I’ve ever been in where the trash cans featured the name of the city’s mayor. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743/34 "2009-01-31T14:16:24Z")
On The Daily Show they’ve taken to referring to him as 'Scumdog Million Hairs". ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743/35 "2009-01-31T15:19:12Z")
Regarding the [highway signs](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090131/ap_on_re_us/illinois_governor_quinn_9): > [@](#): > > Decidedly lower-profile than Blagojevich, Quinn wants to be different from his predecessor in one key high-profile way. > > When Blagojevich’s name is removed from state tollway signs, Quinn doesn’t want his emblazoned in its place. > > “I don’t think the tollway signs or the highway signs of Illinois should be an opportunity to pat the governor on the back,” he said. “I think in particular the tollway signs, the way they were done, was pompous government.” ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743/36 "2009-01-31T15:31:11Z")
Almost always there is a defense guys offer that makes you think, ah, I see where he was coming from. That has not happened in this case. I see no defense.Geraldo is the only one he has convinced. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743/37 "2009-01-31T21:34:38Z")
I only saw Blago’s name at the border on the “Welcome to Illinois” sign and at the Elgin toll booths. It seems to have been taken down everywhere else. (By the way, I think he gave the state one last “fuck you” by making sure the Illinois Tollway is half-potholed and half-patched with loose asphalt. Yeah, I know the winters suck, but it’s a tollway - you can’t repave it more than once every 50 years?) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743/38 "2009-02-01T01:46:11Z")
So when they’re blocking off half the lanes every fucking summer, they’re not actually repairing it? Figures. ---
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743/39 "2009-02-01T02:44:03Z")
> [@SanibelMan](#): > > (By the way, I think he gave the state one last “fuck you” by making sure the Illinois Tollway is half-potholed and half-patched with loose asphalt. Yeah, I know the winters suck, but it’s a tollway - you can’t repave it more than once every 50 years?) My experience with the Illinois Tollways is that only 50% are useful at any given time. The other half are either under snow or under construction. That’s what you are forced to live with. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743/40 "2009-02-01T03:05:02Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > When ever I see this thread I think > > “From Hell’s heart I stab at thee” > -Khan from Star Trek TOS I’m reasonably sure the quote originated in Moby Dick. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blago-i-piss-on-your-grave/483743.md?page=1)