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Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:08PM
CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:08PM
this is the trading floor at UBS in stamford.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:08PM
Yes We Can - NOT!
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:09PM
"Everyone laughed at the Dennis Kneale "Collie" jokes, but when he took the stage with Oprah's Labradoodle - no one was laughing then..."
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:09PM
Fucking mouth-breathers.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:10PM
is that sexy thing in the puffy coat single? yumz!
-sc
Posted by pfluger , Oct 02, 2009 12:10PM
I told ya to cawwwl me! Everyone on da IOC is a friend a' mine.
-cg
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:10PM
http://www.sadtrombone.com/
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:10PM
You are NOT the father!
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:11PM
The crowd finds out that Oprah ATE the torch instead....
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:11PM
GET A JOB, SPARKLING WIGGLES!
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:11PM
Well, Oprah still can, provided se habla español.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:11PM
@2 what are all those people doing there?
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:12PM
Madoff exposes penis to the crowd.
Posted by pfluger , Oct 02, 2009 12:12PM
Caption = BarCap associates reacting to recent salary announcement.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:13PM
seriously arent u people supposed to be working?
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:13PM
wtf, all these people have nothing better to do?
Posted by trojan , Oct 02, 2009 12:13PM
the white folks look the most surprised/crestfallen
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:13PM
@15 ftw
-df
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:14PM
Runner-up sex in order for midground, middle.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:15PM
re the tag, KG's the one in the puffy coat
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:15PM
motherfuckingcockshit we opened a chicago office for nothing!
-stevie
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:15PM
@18 - I beg to disagree - Pat Norita pictured behind the dude in the ChiSox hat seems visibly angry by the Labradoodle assault! I believe he is shouting out loud mad in fact... beat that for emotion!
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:16PM
The announcement of Ken Lewis' resignation sent shockwaves through crowds of people who don't know who Ken Lewis is.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:16PM
I bet no one called in sick to work to attend this one...
Quote of the year: "Hope is not an investment strategy"
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:17PM
@11 - lol
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:17PM
We were convinced our shady political machine would screw us over for another decade... this is an outrage. Oh well, back to pimping and selling senate seats.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:19PM
I love the guy and chick taunting the sad blonde chick directly in the center- they look giddy as schoolgirls with the news! How much did that useless trip cost us, BO?
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:19PM
@23 you "beg to disagree"?
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:19PM
Vikings fans after next monday night.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:21PM
You went all the way to Denmark and all I got was this lousy t-shirt?
Posted by FUNdamental , Oct 02, 2009 12:21PM
I'm sorry we're out of krispy kremes for the rest of the day.
9 - ftw.
12 - the speak portuguese in brazil. Dunce cap for you.
Posted by fucking cocksuckers can't you ever win , Oct 02, 2009 12:21PM
Bills fans. every year of my life.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:21PM
@16, 17, 25- Why did they lose their jobs? Drinking? Is that why they lost their jobs? Insider trading?? Ha-ha, just kidding...
-11
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:21PM
Obama is actually WHITE!
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:22PM
I'm consoling Oprah back stage right now.
--D. Letterman
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:23PM
Send Bubba Clinton next time - he is not limited to freeing American hostages from rogue terrorist states only you know,,, geeezzzz...
Posted by trojan , Oct 02, 2009 12:24PM
@30
nah the city of berkeley after tomorrow
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:25PM
Thanks, Michele Ewing Obama. Thanks a lot.
Chicago
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:25PM
@33 word.
-oj
Posted by NakedShort , Oct 02, 2009 12:26PM
The IOC is racist, yo
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:27PM
@33 Mets season-ticket holders...every year of their lives.
Posted by WF Loan Officer , Oct 02, 2009 12:27PM
Makes me remember the day when they figured out that we called them "mud people".
Posted by pfluger , Oct 02, 2009 12:28PM
"Bad news boss! All of those campaign contribution checks from the Chicago Real Estate Developers just bounced!"
-Rahmbo
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:28PM
Heeerrress Greg!
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:29PM
Suck on my heaving manspear, faggots!
IOC
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:30PM
@33 it's like we're the same self-loathing person.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:30PM
And suddenly it was crystal clear that the "Hillary Clinton 2010 Swimsuit Calendar" was not as 'genius' as market tests predicted!"
Posted by #46 , Oct 02, 2009 12:32PM
Shit. Now I won't find a job until at least 2020.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:32PM
The SAC trading floor upon hearing their new benefits would NOT include sex changes.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:32PM
Chicago Zulu!
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:32PM
The IOC doesn't care about black people.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:34PM
Breaking Media announces that Bess Levin is stepping down as editor-in-chief of Dealbreaker to enter the Rabbinical College of America. Greg Michaels to assume to post.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:35PM
We regret to announce that Soul Glo will be out of stock until Sunday.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:35PM
I wish Bess did porn.
CG
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:37PM
Bess -
Something going down with Southridge Capital. Offices in NY and Ridgefield shut down by police. House of the owner also supposedly seized.
Any idea what's cooking?
Posted by pfluger , Oct 02, 2009 12:38PM
@56=cg
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:39PM
What what? In the butt.
Posted by NakedShort , Oct 02, 2009 12:39PM
If Chicago's tax subsidies for the games dont fit, you must acquit.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:39PM
should have had them come to chi for a boss bar>wiener circle experiece and it would have been a lock
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:41PM
Oprah should light the torch to your foreclosed house, right now.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:42PM
This just in, black Jesus fails to walk on water...again.
Posted by Seaman Bodine II , Oct 02, 2009 12:43PM
Is that for the Michael Moore movie?
Posted by TooBad , Oct 02, 2009 12:43PM
Dang!! What am I going to do with the rest of the Chicago Olympic t-shirts I just ordered!?
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:43PM
Who wants to knead my dough?
Dennis Kneale
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:46PM
@52 and 54 FTW
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:47PM
FTW!
Posted by Tax Chick , Oct 02, 2009 12:48PM
Photos reveal it is egg-shaped.
Posted by NakedShort , Oct 02, 2009 12:49PM
@64 repackage them with the shirts you purchased of the other cities hoping to host the 2016 games, slice into tranches, sell to investors.
Profit.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:49PM
Oh no dey dint!
Oh yes dey did.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:49PM
"Obama" removes mask, is actually Access Hollywood's Billy Bush
Posted by pfluger , Oct 02, 2009 12:50PM
@1-@70:
FTW!
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:51PM
Messiah only walks on Lake Michigan
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:52PM
Rio Bitches!!!
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:53PM
Charlie Gasparino makes a surprise visit to sign books
Posted by Seaman Bodine II , Oct 02, 2009 12:53PM
It will hopefully be like those early screenings of Boyz in the Hood, where brothers ended up shooting the screen.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 12:55PM
2nd row, redhead: she. could. go. all. the. way.
Posted by Shmozak , Oct 02, 2009 12:58PM
Obama and/or Oprah aren't God ?!?!? WTF!?!?
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:00PM
I swear...I was gonna get a Brazilian wax myself and lose forty pounds to fit in that thong cause those Brazilian booty beotches don't have nothin on me!
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:02PM
@14 FTW!
16-17 are spot on. Get back to work you fucking fucks. They are out there to celebrate being chosen for something SEVEN YEARS IN THE FUTURE! Eptiome of lazy assholes. Glad Chicago lost the bid. Why not go kill another honors student. Worst big city in the country.
@28...nice!
Posted by Pedantico , Oct 02, 2009 1:03PM
Second row, middle, with videocam.... she's taking a shit in her pants.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:03PM
He said my whatnow looks like cat gums?
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:04PM
"WAIT...why would anyone rather go to Rio than Cabrini Green"
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:08PM
They look like they have been hit in the head with a 2x4...
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:11PM
"Oh well...At least I got to get a couple of quality hours with McChrystal while on Air Force One...Hillary can you debrief me on Iran in a couple of weeks" - BO
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:12PM
8 bid at 9, 8 bid at 9. 8 sellers. 7 bid at 8.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:14PM
"I knew we should have sent Blago"
Posted by NakedShort , Oct 02, 2009 1:14PM
"I've never really had a disappointment like this," said Ken Rudd, a 33-year-old salesman from Evergreen Park. "This is one of the saddest things I've ever seen."
Ohhhh really Ken?
Chicago not getting the Olympics is one of the saddest things you have ever seen? I can't imagine how you would feel about a terrorist attack in America, losing a loved one or menial stuff like that.
Posted by nodrog , Oct 02, 2009 1:14PM
Oprah's so upset, she ate Denmark.
Posted by Becky Boot Fan , Oct 02, 2009 1:14PM
A test screening of Shia Lebeefs scenes shot thus far for "Money Never Sleeps".
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:15PM
its comments like these that make my day
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:17PM
damn you were short goldman ouch
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:19PM
88 is right! How awful does this whining make Chicago look. That guy is a fucking jerk. Plain and simple.
Oh poor RIchard Daly, for once a Chicago politician couldn't bribe or blackmail someone or some body into a decision.
Posted by JoeT , Oct 02, 2009 1:21PM
A crowd reacts to Nancy Pelosi's before and after plastic surgery photos.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:21PM
Oprah ate LeBeef.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:21PM
Beat by New York, agaaiinnnn...
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:22PM
denmark democratic dollar diplomacy debacle
honeymoon over for sure; 'bama a lame duck; palin smirking like rebecca jarvis.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:23PM
Canadar
Posted by Cameron Frye , Oct 02, 2009 1:26PM
Maybe we should of sent Ferris Bueller instead?
Posted by Cameron Frye , Oct 02, 2009 1:27PM
Maybe we should of sent Ferris Bueller instead?
Posted by Cameron Frye , Oct 02, 2009 1:27PM
Maybe we should of sent Ferris Bueller instead?
Posted by Cameron Frye , Oct 02, 2009 1:27PM
Maybe we should of sent Ferris Bueller instead?
Posted by Cameron Frye , Oct 02, 2009 1:27PM
Maybe we should of sent Ferris Bueller instead?
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:29PM
@93 IOC sneezes at amateur corrupt chumps like Chicago.
Chicago:Steve Martin::IOC:Michael Caine
Posted by NakedShort , Oct 02, 2009 1:29PM
Abe Froman would have had this bitch on lockdown
Posted by pfluger , Oct 02, 2009 1:30PM
@88/93:
Ken Rudd is a friend of mine.
-cg
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:30PM
MCC's unbridled jingoism deserves a kick to the ovaries. Stupid fucking bitch.
Oprah vs Giselle. Was it really that fucking hard of a choice?
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:31PM
She said what to yo moms?
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:31PM
Joe six pack's watching as Goldman passes out bonus checks
Posted by BSD , Oct 02, 2009 1:31PM
http://cheezburger.com/View.aspx?aid=2683261952
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:32PM
*Caption
Abe Froman noted Hooker Fucker and Sausage King of Chicago, dies in a fire while skull fucking a kitten.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:35PM
#86 its... bid for, offered at - not that difficult
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:36PM
It's obvious it was a right-wing conspiracy that caused Chicago to finish last in the IOC voting, one concocted by "The Brain" Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:38PM
No Chicago politics here.. We don't care who you think you are!
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:39PM
Who wants some of my killer kush?
DK
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:43PM
@81, it's a cross between bitter beer face and the face that Maria B makes when the Sage has cabbage soup for lunch.
The caption should read "Oprah actually shows the IOC Evaluation Committee what they can suck on"
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:44PM
Is the woman with the video camera crying like her baby just died ?
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:45PM
Is the woman with the video camera crying like her baby just died ?
Posted by HAM05 , Oct 02, 2009 1:50PM
the personification of everything that's wrong with america
dont remember the last time i got this upset about something unrelated to loss of life
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:51PM
to woman holding the sign: oprah dosent live in Rio....
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:56PM
@112 "8 bid at 9" means bid is 8, ask is 9... not that difficult
@86 "7 bid at 8" isn't going to get those kinds looks, I'd go with "1 bid at 2". A lot more than 8 sellers, too:
Round 1: Madrid - 28, Rio - 26, Tokyo - 22, Chicago - 18
Round 2: Rio - 46, Madrid - 29, Tokyo - 20
Round 3: Rio - 66, Madrid - 32
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 1:56PM
I have a feeling there are going to be a lot of XXXXXL Orange 2016 Chicago Olympics shirts on E-Bay soon
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 2:01PM
The situation, pictures and captions support all the Pro Choice votes in a way yelling and campaining never will.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 2:07PM
Front row:
Please report back to the cotton fields.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 2:08PM
And Here is a pic of Rio.... I just don't understand why we lost.
Mr. O
http://en.ce.cn/subject/06cup/groupphotoB/200606/14/W020060614414740639277.jpg
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 2:19PM
@125 - That is the hottest looking tranny I have ever seen.
SC
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 2:22PM
@126
Nope. That is just the standard Brazilian moose knuckle.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 2:23PM
go 'cuse!
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 2:24PM
@ 125 - and another of her
http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/fifa/gen/xp/20060608/i/3906405585.jpg
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 2:27PM
More pictures!
More pictures!
*clapping hands furiously
Posted by trojan , Oct 02, 2009 2:29PM
@124, and other weak comments
Bess doesn't hand out a chanukah present like this for you guys to drop the ball with lame shit.
step up your game.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 2:32PM
wtf did Whoopi say?
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 2:34PM
http://footieblog.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/brazilfans04.JPG
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3YhbTY7L8I&feature=player_embedded#
*glad work does not filter this shit
Posted by Pfluger , Oct 02, 2009 2:35PM
Obama has just released a statement.
He says the IOC is wee-weed up.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 2:38PM
What what? In the butt.
You wanna do me in the butt? In the butt.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 2:41PM
@134 ftw
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 2:43PM
This will clearly rile some idiot's feathers, but what did we expect when a trio including barack, michelle, and oprah represented the US in Copenhagen?
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 2:46PM
@104
Why is the cork on the fork?
-GRB
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 2:48PM
@137 obviouly the recent footage of some black kid getting beaten to death with a 2x4 on the streets of Chicago helped the cause no end.
i'm happy Chicago lost. The place fucking sucks. Worse than NYC which isn't saying much.
Posted by NakedShort , Oct 02, 2009 2:50PM
I hate my fucking job. Anyone out there hiring?
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 2:51PM
@naked/140
Join the club.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 2:59PM
Enterprising young marketing executive at US Tobacco gets idea for future ad campaign
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 2:59PM
Alright Rio, I'ma let you finish but lemme tell you something Chicago is the most corrupt city of ALL TIME!
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 3:02PM
Excuse me while I whip this out.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 3:02PM
Let's be honest, nobody outside of the US has any idea who Oprah is. People probably wondered: "Why is the housekeeper of the Obamas making the pitch?"
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 3:05PM
"Let's be honest, nobody outside of the US has any idea who Oprah"
you are a total moron.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 3:06PM
Great Thread.
@9 - FTW!
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 3:08PM
@145 really? How old are you? 13?
Posted by B-Frank , Oct 02, 2009 3:09PM
Handful of raisins
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 3:14PM
@17 They all work in CMBS.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 3:18PM
Angry Dark Mooseknuckle
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 3:18PM
If this had happened to Bush he would've promptly bombed the IOC back to the stone age.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 3:33PM
sucks to be black!
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 3:58PM
This is all Bush's fault!
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 4:09PM
The suffering of the self-important.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 4:33PM
ACORN dealt another blow
Posted by Brian R Higgins , Oct 02, 2009 4:48PM
Kiss me, I'm from Chicago.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 5:04PM
"Men of Wall Street" calendar cover revealed featuring Steve Cohen and Cliff Assness spooning naked on a lambskin rug.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 5:18PM
nightfall.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 5:28PM
NBC Universal 50% stake was bought by Ruth Madoff!
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 5:41PM
We all know Oprah doesn't eat LeBeef or Copenhagen. Prefers herring.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 6:22PM
@124 You won't be laughing when you find out a black guy rails the shit out of your wife when you're at work.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 6:55PM
162 FT mutha f'in W.
Posted by Oprah , Oct 02, 2009 7:00PM
I am sorry and hapy to inform you that Albert Einstein was not jew, he was African American. So for those thinking that brothers were not smart, they were wrong.
Sincerely Nobel Comitte.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 7:06PM
This one is easy:
Pwn3d!
Posted by jolyeu , Oct 02, 2009 8:41PM
HAHA OMG in their FACE.
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 8:47PM
O.J. really did it????!!!!
Posted by guest , Oct 02, 2009 10:48PM
"Kanye *ahem* Kanye, can you please return to your seat"
Posted by Persnicketty Hianusport , Oct 02, 2009 11:43PM
"Wut iz a Coppenhagen?"
"Dayum, now my trainin' waz fer nuttin'!"
"Kil the lan'lord."
"O!"
- I'm here all week
Posted by Joe Mac , Oct 03, 2009 2:32PM
@9 FTW!
Europeans don't like acorns?
Posted by guest , Oct 03, 2009 7:02PM
What???? No free health care???
Posted by guest , Oct 03, 2009 10:19PM
Charlie Gasparino stripping off
Posted by Erin B , Oct 04, 2009 9:41AM
Maria ia actually Gasdraggy!
Posted by Sturmfuhrer G. Beck , Oct 05, 2009 8:47AM
I endorse zis dezision. Jawohl! Soon der master race vil rise again. Anyone among us who is too veak to resist der delights of black peniss vil be shot! Sieg Heil!!!!!!
Posted by guest , Oct 05, 2009 12:47PM
Friends, foes, and gangsters – if nothing else, remember - never trash talk the Navy while jacking off to a picture of Dick Fuld
Posted by guest , Oct 05, 2009 2:51PM
For realz? I didn't cumz here fo nuthin'... Let's get a 10 piece and get the fuk outta herz.
Posted by guest , Oct 05, 2009 3:52PM
they should've let Kanye pitch the Chi
Posted by guest , Oct 05, 2009 3:53PM
they should've let Kanye pitch the Chi
Posted by guest , Oct 06, 2009 12:04PM
I get it:
1. Post picture of black people.
2. Let the hilarity ensue.
Such a ground breaking blog. This is probably why you're a blogging hack and not a real writer, you know, with prestige and benefits.
Posted by AlphaSeeker , Oct 08, 2009 5:43PM
@ 12....Brazilians speak Portuguese, It this kind of cultural ignorance on DB which saddens me.