# Need some help from a Chi-Town area Doper, pretty please? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 19, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-help-from-a-chi-town-area-doper-pretty-please/214141 "2003-11-19T17:03:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-help-from-a-chi-town-area-doper-pretty-please/214141/1 "2003-11-19T17:03:27Z")
This is kind of an unusual request, but it’s serious. On I-290 (major highway that leads from the western Chicago suburbs into the city) just before Harlem Avenue I believe is a large billboard, on the north side of 290, that I believe (this is from memory) is yellow and blackish. The slogan on it says “Old Men With Ponytails? Baffling” There is another line on it that says something about mortgages or home loans or something along those lines being understandable. What I need is a picture of this billboard - can anyone do this for me??? Pretty please??? It’s for a Christmas Gift for my husband - who happens to be an old man with a ponytail. I will pay you whatever costs you incur - and would also be eternally grateful!! ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-help-from-a-chi-town-area-doper-pretty-please/214141/2 "2003-11-19T17:55:38Z")
When do you need the picture? ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-help-from-a-chi-town-area-doper-pretty-please/214141/3 "2003-11-19T18:07:26Z")
Within the next month, say? ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-help-from-a-chi-town-area-doper-pretty-please/214141/4 "2003-11-19T18:15:15Z")
Is this 290 going into the city or out of the city? ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-help-from-a-chi-town-area-doper-pretty-please/214141/5 "2003-11-19T18:18:28Z")
Into - der Missy - I can be such an idiot at times. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-help-from-a-chi-town-area-doper-pretty-please/214141/6 "2003-11-19T18:52:39Z")
> [@](#): > > I will pay you whatever costs you incur - and would also be eternally grateful!! Airfare from Toledo to Midway is $136.50. Limousine’s gonna run a coupla hunnerd. I can even arrange to have it delivered right to your desk at work. Film and developing’s on me, nice guy that I am. ---
**Author:** ![Zanshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@Zanshin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zanshin)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-help-from-a-chi-town-area-doper-pretty-please/214141/7 "2003-11-19T19:22:26Z")
I live about two minutes away from that billboard, **Missy** and will see if I can find the billboard you’re looking for – if so, I should just be able to take a digital pic of it (if that’s sufficient) and email it over to you. Give me a couple of days and if you don’t hear from me, email me and remind me, as my short-term memory is horrible. ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-help-from-a-chi-town-area-doper-pretty-please/214141/8 "2003-11-19T19:48:46Z")
I’ve seen this billboard, and I snickered when I saw it. No digital camera here, or I’d offer to do it. I drive by it every day. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-help-from-a-chi-town-area-doper-pretty-please/214141/9 "2003-11-20T16:11:14Z")
Thanks, guys - and **Zan** - that would be wonderful!!