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Tuesday, Mar 22, 2011 * The General Assembly is off this week, so the news is pretty darned slow around here, and my mind is on spring training. So, let’s have a bit of fun…  That would be Gov. Quinn with Jennifer Beals, the star of The Chicago Code. * The Question: Caption? Try to keep it clean, people.
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- Bluefish - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 10:51 am:
Don’t look so scared Governor. I’m not here to arrest you like I did with the last two.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 10:51 am:
“You were in that Showtime series,’The L Word,’ right? In this day and age, it was nice to see Liberals depicted in a positive light.”
- Vibes - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 10:52 am:
… and then we switched the mansion from CFL bulbs (the squiggly ones) to LEDs, which last much, MUCH longer. Maybe you could put them in your squad cars — which police department did you say you were from again?
- nieva - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 10:54 am:
Do you think I am right for Dancing with the Stars??
- Niles Township - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 10:56 am:
Not a caption, but I hope The Chicago Code gets renewed. There have been some fabulous shots of the city on the show.
- Sprint Speed - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 10:57 am:
So Jennifer, what are your thoughts on the Illinois State Police?
- Montrose - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:01 am:
I have a couple of script ideas. Maybe you could do an episode on a farmer. He grows soybeans. He has to come to the city to deliver edamame to a north side sushi place and gets accidentally caught up in a Japanese mafia kerfuffle and is asked to wear a wire to bring them down. His code name is Soy Boy.
Or, how about this. A man loses his much loved briefcase. Let’s say he calls it, oh, Betsy. The CPD initiates a citywide hunt for Betsy, culminating in a standoff with anti-union Tea Party members holding her for ransom. They are demanding privatization of libraries and fresh copies of the constitution.
Or I could do a walk. A walk on could work. We could maybe hug.
- Davey Boy Smithe - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:02 am:
PQ: “Have you applied for worker’s comp yet?”
- Montrose - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:02 am:
Minor Correction: Or I could do a walk on.
- Fed-Up - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:04 am:
So Jennifer, I’ve tried and tried to get a shiny gold badge like that but no one will let me have one, how about you give me one of yours? Maybe I could be on your show, oh oh oh that would be fun!
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:04 am:
Would you like to be the Director of the Illinois State Lottery?
- Responsa - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:07 am:
Oh, hi there. Nice to meet you. I did not realize that Rahm had selected the new Chicago police chief.
- dupage progressive - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:07 am:
“Really glad to meet you Jennifer Beals. Beals, that rhymes with seals, and I’ve been trying to figure out for years how you did that thing with your shirt & your undergarments in flashdance. How did you do it?”
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:07 am:
“No, really, Jennifer, back in the 80s, I’d put on my leg warmers, set up the chair and water bucket, flip on MTV and I was a ‘maniac, maniac, that’s for sure, and I was dancing like I never had before…”
- Phineas J. Whoopee - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:08 am:
Would you be willing to run my State Police Dept?
- Spring - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:08 am:
Thanks for the income tax hike, its going to be cheaper to build a fake chicago set now!
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:09 am:
OK, so first I want to stop at McDonald’s for a couple of double cheeseburgers and a Diet Coke. Then we’ll go to a ribbon cutting on the South Side for a new soybean processing plant. I’m known as Soy Boy around here. I have to deliver some remarks at the Union League Club on high speed rail. Then it’s off to Fenwick because I’m playing a pickup game with my brother. After that, I have a late staff meeting at the Thompson Center, and then I’m going to a play. On the way home I want to egg Blagojevich’s house for old time’s sake.
Wait. You’re not my driver?
- Rod's Hair - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:10 am:
Your shows ratings are worse than my approval ratings. Want to be the new Director of Insurance?
- Anon - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:14 am:
And Hollywood enlists Jennifer Beals to lobby PQ and try and convince him to AV any bill that sunsets their film tax credit.
“Without this tax credit, I’ll be unemployed and would have to collect unemployment and rely on other state programs. In other words, this tax credit saves the State money!”
- IrishPirate - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:14 am:
Well if I have to keep it clean then it’s best I say nothing directly about the question.
The show is getting better and some of the Chicago streetscenes are great.
- PeppermintP - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:14 am:
Gov to Jen: You had me at “H*ll No!”.
- Rahm's Parking Meter - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:15 am:
Hey Jen, you know the Illinois filming tax Credits…Oh wait, I am repealing them. Sorry, more tax for me, less jobs for you….
- just sayin' - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:17 am:
Quinn: “I’m a maniac…maniac…on the floor… and I’m dancin’ like I never danced before….”
[Beals was of course the star of Flashdance. Far superior entertainment by the way.]
- Stones - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:18 am:
Beauty and the Beast
- Steve Bartin - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:18 am:
Pat Quinn: “Jennifer you look better than Phil Cline.”
JB : ” The people over at the DEA said the same thing to me.”
Pat Qunin: ” Who’s supposed to play William Hanhardt?”
JB: ” In Chicago, William Hanhardt exists in all of us.”
- Phineas J. Whoopee - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:18 am:
Have you seen my Black Hawks victory dance? What say you to a duet?
- Aldyth - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:21 am:
“Squirrel!!!”
- Waco Kid - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:24 am:
You know Jennifer I pretend that I’m in charge too.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:24 am:
“How’d you like to be the Soy Girl? No? Um, Canoe Czarina? No response? I got it — Prisoner Review Board!
- Joe from Joliet - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:36 am:
Q - I’m begging you, please don’t leave and film the show in Toronto. I want you to stay and be my IDOT person.
B - (snicker) I am NOT an idiot.
- Pickles!! - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:40 am:
Quinn: “Since when did they let women be police officers? Oh, your on a TV show. Nevermind then. Say,I like your guns. can i see your guns?”
- good stuff - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:41 am:
Whose ratings are worse?
- Joe from Joliet - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:41 am:
Q - When I was skinny I could put my hands on my hips like that, but now I can’t even button my jacket. What can I do?
- Mr. Ethics - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:44 am:
pq “your show is just fiction, right?”
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:45 am:
OK, you can tell me. I’m the governor. What’s the code?
- Joe from Joliet - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:47 am:
Q - I liked you better when your last name was Juniper.
- dumb ol' country boy - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:51 am:
Gov.—How you Doin? I’m Gov. Pat Quinn what a great state Illinois is don’t you agree?
Jennifer—Yeah.. I guess so…. really…..your the Govenor? I thought your hair was dark and thick?
Gov.—No no no that was the last guy Rod.
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:51 am:
You’re 47? Heck, my briefcase is older than you.
- Esquire - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:52 am:
What’s the going price on a special deputy’s badge from the Sheriff’s Department these days? Elrod used to make a killing on those.
- Pat Robertson - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 11:55 am:
So, I can count on the Fraternal Order of Police to support my re-election campaign, right? Oh, the Screen Actors’ Guild?
- Newsclown - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 12:04 pm:
” No, you pronounce it DAH Chicago Code!” Love dah show, but we gotta work on yer Bridgeport accent. “
- Gregor - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 12:05 pm:
We like the show a lot, and it does make the city look good. Can you spot whom the government characters are based on yet?
- Templar - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 12:06 pm:
**You know Jennifer I pretend that I’m in charge too.**
We have a winner!
- Just Asking - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 12:12 pm:
Can you have your people stop writing tickets for unpaid tolls which I was told as a young boy would be removed as soon as the road was paid for.
- LevivotedforJudy - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 12:17 pm:
And Jen… I highly endorse and think that former Senator Hendon would be a fine addition to your show. His nickname is “Hollywood” after all.
- sal-says - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 12:25 pm:
Monken didn’t work out for me; you wanna give it a try?
- Bob - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 12:31 pm:
I hope you are not using real guns. We don’t allow anyone except sworn police to have guns in Illinois. Oh I forgot and my former acting director of the state police.
- zatoichi - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 12:39 pm:
PQ: My breath. Pleasant?
- unclesam - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 12:52 pm:
JB: Now I know why the producers thought Bill Murray would be best for the part of the Governor. Glad they went with a drama and not a comedy.
- Digger - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 12:56 pm:
“So we both are actors that pretend we care for Illinois law”
- Just for fun.. - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 12:57 pm:
Jen, let’s cut to the chase…I have 1 retired senator called “Hollywood” and one Representative that is looking for a job. She has EXTENSIVE background in acting! I owe her after she did a favor for me….any openings on the set, that I could convience you to appoint them in???
- Meanderthal - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 12:57 pm:
In the early 80’s you were in Flashdance and in the early 80’s Harold Washington fired me for incompetence! What a coincidence!
- Apple - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 12:58 pm:
“OK, you can tell me. I’m the governor. What’s the code?”
Rich, that’s the winner. Hands down.
- Kevin Highland - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 12:59 pm:
PQ: Your show is obviously a drama, You aren’t showing anywhere near the true vice, graft & corruption in Illinois.
- Irish - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 1:08 pm:
PQ - So do you think you are going to be able to reduce crime in Chicago? Jody had a little success but he’s gone.
What?
You are an actor?
You just play being a Chicago cop?
So what. So am I. I’m not really the governor I just play him on TV.
- Anon21 - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 1:12 pm:
Jennifer Beals! Miss Beals! I have a plot suggestion for you! So, you walk into the scene undercover, dressed up like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. An Alderman, shorter, older, and sort of creepy looking walks in…
- downstate hack - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 1:20 pm:
What’s your address and phone number? Okay don’t tell me, I can get it from your FOID card registration.
- Bonsaso - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 1:40 pm:
Wasn’t his real quote to her “Flashdance was the first movie my son ever watched”?
- Cincinnatus - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 1:53 pm:
I think I saw you in dat der Flash Dance at the Thomson Center a coupla years ago, dinnit I?
- just sayin' - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 2:14 pm:
I’ll still be in office long after your show is cancelled. Talk about a crazy world.
- just sayin' - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 2:16 pm:
My staff said it would definitely be creepy for me to ask you about the water in the chair scene.
- ToddAF - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 2:25 pm:
Stop it, Jennifer. I don’t care what the writers at Fox say, there is no Irish mob. And stop calling me Paddy!
- BW - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 2:41 pm:
You know Jennifer, I too have been a acting in community theater for years.
- John A Logan - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 2:51 pm:
Lets go back to my place, I got plenty to eat in the Fridge.
- Steve Bartin - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 3:04 pm:
Pat Quinn: ” Do you know anyone over at Fox News?”
JB ” Why?”
Pat Quinn: “I was thinking that the 67% state income tax increase might end my political career and Fox News might need another news analyst.”
JB ” I’ll see if we can create some kind of Alderman character for you on the Code because you sure can act.”
Pat Quinn ” Thanks, Mike Madigan and Alderman Ed Burke think so too.”
- Das Man - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 3:26 pm:
PQ lip syncing with the Beetles:
“I’ve got a feeling, a feeling deep inside
Oh yeah, oh yeah
All these years i’ve been wandering around,
Wondering how come nobody told me
All that i was looking for was somebody
Who looked like you”
Jennifer chimes in:
“Everybody had a hard year
Nobody had a good time
The budget is a wet dream,
With very little sunshine
Oh yeah, oh yeah.”
- Way Way Down Here - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 3:49 pm:
Good one, BW.
- TheFemGeek - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 5:19 pm:
So, do you think if I re-enact that water splashing scene from Flashdance I may get even more votes in the next election?
- Rufus - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 5:37 pm:
Quinn: Is Chicago really that Corrupt?
J.B.: Yes, although I hear it takes 2nd place to the State.
- Flybz Cartel - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 6:51 pm:
“When I got this job, people said I was unconvincing and an implausible choice for such a high position.”
“And now look at you, Gov. Quinn!”
- Earl - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 7:42 pm:
Wow!—a fake governor and a fake superintendent/now a fake mayor is needed
- nah - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 7:56 pm:
Jennifer come on! Please take the IDOT Directors job!!
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 8:26 pm:
Flash Dancer and Flash in the Pan.
- Rod's Hair - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 9:00 pm:
Are you in a union? Well in that case I’m bound to do your bidding Jen, that’s what they pay me for.
- railrat - Tuesday, Mar 22, 11 @ 9:26 pm:
wow 2 badges, I wish I a badge, hey do you know what IDOT stands for?