Chicagoist: Dick Mell: No More Heinz Ketchup

BuckWild11

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:44:23 -0600

I am not sure what happened. No more Heinz, ok. Hunts Ketchup sucks though. Mayo is delicious on fries. MMMMmmmayo.

celerysalt

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:20:10 -0600

whoops, you did. my bad.

celerysalt

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:19:21 -0600

why in the world haven't you posted "hugfest" yet? the single most bizarre thing that's going to happen in illinois this year, bar none. seriously. bring on the UFOs.

Not_another_username

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:00:39 -0600

It sounds more like someone on the hotel staff saw people "harassing" a guest and had them tossed than Kerry having anything to do with it. Anyway, send a Heinz splat to Dick: http://www.heinz.com/widget.aspx rmell@cityofchicago.org

Albanyparkour

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:59:08 -0600

I think Spook nailed it. I was at the 1996 convention (high school journalist access!) and it was drunk-o-palooza. Falling down, crazy, "aunt kathy wants to DANCE with you to 'Don't Stop Believin' at the end of the wedding reception drunk."

Ward Up

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:58:44 -0600

It was in "The Trib." Chuckle. I can't wait to hear some national journalist say something like, "...As reported in today's Chicago Trib."

rigoberto

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:54:17 -0600

This is the most incoherent post I've ever seen. Was it deciphered from patterns found in the shit splattered walls of the Lincoln Park Zoo primate house? It reads like brain-diarrhea. -Rigo PS I'm super handsome, ladies.

ThisGuy

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:50:02 -0600

This was probably the stupidest and least noteworthy thing I've ever read on Chicagoist. Oh, wait, I forgot about those cartoons.

matilda

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:31:40 -0600

Spook: It's not often you make me say this, but you offer a plausible scenario that is also very entertaining. I hope you right just because the situation would be even funnier.

ml180

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:31:25 -0600

Why are you/the Trib talking about something that happened four years ago as if it were news?

Spook

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:17:16 -0600

So lets read between the lines, shall we? The Aldercreature and his crew were drunk as Chicago skunks, they go over to the Senator and probably start making fun of him and just being rude. He calls security and the rest is history, untill he finds out that they are Chicago Politicans, so he appologizes

dopplerd

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:17:00 -0600

Let me guess Mell is also drafting a ordinance banning Heinz from Chicago. Never mind that it was an over zealous hotel employee who had them removed. Does Mell really think that Kerry would make a big deal when a prominent Democratic senator is asked for an autograph at the freakin' DNC? Seeing and being see is what the even is all about! My new alderman is officially a dip shit. (and I was reserving judgment from when he changed a gun registration ordinance because he broke the ordinance.)

dayofthedaleks

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:16:37 -0600

So wait, is this story incoherent because of the trib's writing, or was that the Chicagoist value added?

matilda

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:03:41 -0600

You could at least credit the Tribune--uh, Trib--up higher when you appropriate their stories and use much of the same language, switching around and changing words just barely enough so it's not plagiarism, at least not obviously. "During a visit to the famous cigar bar at the Brown Palace Hotel, Mell and his entourage spotted Massachusetts Senator and 2004 also-ran John Kerry. Mell and 39th Ward Alderman Margaret Laurino, who were hanging out with delegate Linda Murphy, a professor at Wright College, spotted Kerry." Tribune/Clout Street: "Mell, along with a group that included Ald. Margaret Laurino (39th) and newbie Democratic convention delegate Linda Murphy, a professor at Wright College, visited the cigar bar at the famed Brown Palace Hotel when the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and Massachusetts senator walked in." Don't they teach this stuff in freshman English anymore?

Not_another_username

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:57:02 -0600

I'm so over Mell as my alderman.