Or maybe a Viking Saga! He’s got the personality for it. And can you imagine the beard that man could grow?
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?
CNN 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.
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?
I dunno who made them, but apparently they cost $15,000 apiece and there were 33 of them. :eek: There are also 68 “Welcome to Illinois” signs 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. 
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.
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.)
You’ll have to wait until bidding is closed.
When ever I see this thread I think
“From Hell’s heart I stab at thee”
-Khan from Star Trek TOS
Hear, hear! Awesome OP. This is the best news we Illinoisans have gotten since Obama got elected.
Yes, check ebay for a list of bidd…, er, candidates.
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.
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.
On The Daily Show they’ve taken to referring to him as 'Scumdog Million Hairs".
Regarding the highway signs:
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.
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?)
So when they’re blocking off half the lanes every fucking summer, they’re not actually repairing it? Figures.
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.
I’m reasonably sure the quote originated in Moby Dick.