New Olympic Ad Campaign
This smacks of desperation. The USOC head resigns, Rio is moving up and Chicago rolls out a new design and motto because the translation doesn't work out well?As the date for the International Olympic Committee candidate city Evaluation Commission's visit to Chicago draws near, the Chicago 2016 Olympic organizing committee said Friday it is dumping its "Stir the Soul" tagline and replacing it with "Let Friendship Shine."
Per Chicago 2016 CEO Pat Ryan: "Chicago is known for its warm and welcoming people and its hospitable nature, and we hope to demonstrate this to the Evaluation Commission next month."
This might be the hands down winner though:
Labels: olympics
posted by SCC at 12:07 AM
75 Comments:
Chalkie Rules!!!! Go Chalkie Go!!!
Someone needs to warn the IOC about the cesspool that wants to host the 2016 Olympics.
The wolves are already planning how they can fleece & fuck the international visitors whom they count on leaving instead of staying to prosecute the bad guys/girls.
Chicago does not have enough law enforcement personnel to protect the safety of its citizens.
IOC, don't come here ! Chalkie has enough work as it is !!!!
My sixteen year old cousin, an aspiring graphic artist, could (and HAS) done better than this trash. I bet they paid a bloody fortune for it, too.
Can't wait to see the new mascot. Will it be a multi-colored Cousin It, with its hair blowing in the wind like these posters? Pitiful.
Beware the Ides of March!
*****Someone should forward this blog to the olympic people to include it in their evaluation.*****
What's up with the imagine poster? It looks like a nuclear explosion;
very scary stuff!
GO CHALKIE!!!!
Huh. Before I enlarged that first "Imagine" one to see it was a gymnast, I thought it was a post bomb blast radiating from our city. A much more likely scenario.
SCC: I GOT A BETTER ONE: "HUH"!!
REALLY GOOD,
I LAUGHED FOR QUITE A WHILE AND A
SMILE STAYED WITH ME A WHILE. I WAS
STARING AT THE WINNING DESIGN AND
REALLY APPRECIATED THE USE OF THE
SHADOWS AND LINES VERY FARTSY STUFF
CHALKIE WILL PROBABLY GO ON TO FAME
AND FORTUNE..MAYBE EVEN MOVE TO LA
OR NY, YOU NEVER KNOW, FAME DOES A
NUMBER ON SOME CELEBRITIES. THEY
FORGET US LITTLE GUYS. I SURE HOPE
THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN TO CHALKIE, HE
SEEMED LIKE A NICE GUY THE SEVERAL
TIMES WE CROSSED PATHS, JUST BRIEF
PASSINGS, I NODDED, BUT HE DIDN'T
REACT,EVERBODY KNEW THAT'S HOW HE
WAS. I HOPE HE STAYS HERE FINISHES
HIS MISSION AND RETIRE, LIVE OFF
THE RESIDUALS FROM THAT BRAND NAME,
CHALKIE
ANYWAY I HEARD FROM INSIDE, THAT
JOB WILL BE ELIMINATED WHEN THE NEW
(LASER CAMERA DILINEATOR) ROLLS OUT
IN A COUPLE YEARS. THE CONTRACT FOR
THOSE WILL BE GIVEN TO THE ONES WHO
GOT THE BLUE LIGHT CAMERA DEAL,BUT
THESE WILL BE MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE
AS LASERS TEND TO BE HIGH-TECH. IS
THIS WHAT IT'S COMING TO? GETTING
OLD IS FEELING BETTER EVERY DAY.
GIVE EM HELL CHALKIE, YOU'RE ALL
WE GOT PARTNER...
JUST SAYIN
JUST PRAYIN
OH SHIT I'M OUTTA BEER...
"Know" is OK, but My Suggestion For the Chalkie Poster Would Be "Chicago Reality 2016"
I Like The New Poster, When Will it Be On Hats & Tshirts?
Hilarious!
One of those wild photos should be a mutt holding a link card over the city. "2016; Your Link To The Future"
That gymnast one really does look like a bomb blast.
why is an insect mandible on the chicago poster?
Looks like it's going to eat the city.
They seem to be rather stuck on that "mirror image" thing.
Kinda sad, really.
And why on earth would Chicago WANT to host the Olympics -- ohhhhh, to take their money. Oh, ok.
Shut Down The Bid! The International Olympic Committee will be in town from April 2-8th to evaluate Chicago as a potential host city. Join No Games Chicago at a rally on Thursday April 2nd, 5pm at Federal Plaza. I'll be there proudly wearing my Chalkie 2016 T-shirt.
How about a little INFORMATIONAL PICKETING while the Committee is here... Are you listening FOP????
That might allow us to inform the committee about how we're really treated by the City and the Mayor in particular, why we're so lacking in manpower, equipment, LEADERSHIP, etc. and NO CONTRACT!
If FOP won't get on board, how about a couple of aspiring FOP Candidates putting something together? This is a perfect venue to get the word out, and we are in dire need of some leadership come the next FOP Election.
Per Chicago 2016 CEO Pat Ryan: "Chicago is known for its warm and welcoming people and its hospitable nature, and we hope to demonstrate this to the Evaluation Commission next month."
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From the Sunday papers:
"As school officials acknowledged last week, Chicago already has eclipsed in 2008-09 the number of public school students killed all of last school year. And there are still three months to go until summer break."
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"Three nightclub patrons were stabbed early Sunday in an altercation on the Near North Side, police said.
"The dispute at 151 W. Ohio St., which is the address of Ruby Nightclub and Lounge, resulted in three people receiving cut wounds about 4 a.m., said News Affairs Officer John Henry.
The victims were taken to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, he said.
Police were talking to a person of interest in the attacks, Henry said.
There was “a lot of blood” on the scene, a Near North District police officer said.
Calls to the nightclub were not immediately returned"
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"A man suffered a graze wound to the back early Sunday when was shot after pulling into a South Side gas station to refuel early Sunday.
About 1:30 a.m. the 23-year-old man was inside a vehicle driven by a woman when they pulled into a gas station on the 7600 block of South Vincennes Avenue apparently to get gas, according to Gresham District police Lt. John Brundage who was citing preliminary information.
The man got out of the car and at that point another vehicle pulled into the station and two male blacks exited it. One of them produced a gun and began shooting at the man for no apparent reason, according to the lieutenant."
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"Let Friendship Shine."
Oh yeah, and if not, start spraying with the 9mm.
Remember "Keep Hope Alive" and buy Budweiser
Anonymous said...
Beware the Ides of March!
3/15/2009 12:44:00 AM
Oh yes, the best of the Berwyn garage bands:
Come Dancing
Age Before Beauty
Loves Got The Power
You Wouln't Listen
The Forgotten Oldie
Pepperhead
High On You
L.A. Goodbye
Eye Of The Tiger
Spirit Of Chicago
Vehicle
Rebel Girl
Like It Or Lump It
I have an idea. Let's hire a PR firm (politically connected of coarse}and pay them an (asphalt) truck load of money to come up with some realy mediocre ideas and turn this thing for us. 2016 here we come!
Ryan's quote is hilarious!!
I'm confused. Is the last one saying that the IOC should know that Chicago is full of knife welding naked men in the shadows?
And is he standing on a mirror or walking on water?
Someone should send the IOC a Chalkie Tee.
OT - SCC you are now on Facebook.
More than a few years ago the FOP sponsored a protest outside of Lech Walesa's hotel when he was in town for a visit. I think he had jus won the Noble Peace Prize or something and was the President of Poland. I was there and there was a good turn out. The picket line was on Michigan Ave. across from his hotel. Does anyone know if any thought has been given to doing a peaceful demonstration outside the Olympic Committee's hotel in a couple of weeks? Boy would this piss off Daley and give some media exposure to the fact of how bad the department is being run, that we haven't had a raise in 2 years, and the danger all citizens are being put in because of politics and mismanagement of the Department by J-Fed, Shortshanks and the Adercreatures.
Can you imagine the picketers carrying Chalkie Posters and wearing Chalkie tee-shirts?
Hey cooter Nice job on am560,telling how many police we have on the job, and how many are leaving the job,Cooter for FOP PREZ.
scc, you did it again-- a great design for the new city vehicle sticker for 09. "chalkie-fabulous"-- lets start a campaign to rename illinois the land of chalkie instead of the land of lincoln.
"Imagine"-----probably some old hippie that used to listen to the Beatles. Seems more NY than Chicago. Very unimaginative.
Let Friendship Shine----who is the brainiac that thought that one up?
Very mediocre if you ask me.
reminded me of mothman prophecies
OT:
For those who like to stretch every paycheck here is something my wife found, If you buy a gift card from Jewel Foods before April 15 (tax refund promo) in the amount of $300 Jewels will add $30 to the amount on the card. For $300 you get $330 worth of groceries. Add in your regular coupons, sale items etc. and buy at a Jewels outside of Chicago and you can save a few bucks.
For the arithmetically challenged that is an automatic 10% discount. Not bad. Shop outside of Cook County and save even more (another 2%)
Every little bit helps.
I think the city has over 100 people working on the 2016 nonsense. I would imagine that each is earning at least 80 thousand or the average is about 80 thousand. Now come the tax increases.. NICE
Doesn't the Olympic Committee get it that we don't want the Olympics? This city can't even get it together with potholes.
Off Topic:
WOW. I just got home from the "Southside Irish" parade. What a let-down. I've gone to it on and off for decades. I haven't been there in 7 or 8 years, but I now know why the residents have run out of patience.
I saw nothing but a bunch of overfed fatass tweens from the suburbs stumbling around wasted.
My unofficial poll would suggest that the 18-25 age group are 60-75%in the "Binge drinker" category.
So many walking around in soiled pants and vomit hanging from their chins that I lost count.
But, I did see many old friends (on duty officers) doing a fine job at 111th & western.
Glad it's only once a year, otherwise I might have to renounce my Irish heritage!(lol)
It's looking more like Bud Biliken every year.
My olympic logo idea? Substitute the rings with hand cuffs... list the names of those who have gone to prison from chicago scandal in the last couple of years inside of each cuff.... oh, and have chalkie in the background.
Oh, and the logo for 2016? "Got Chalk?"
OT--
Letter to Trib from a suburbanite who thinks both DALEY & WEIS stink!!! They're even hated by suburbanites!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!
here is another reason of many,why America is the greatest country
http://www.maniacworld.com/not-cut-out-for-the-army.html
then this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xAml6JTVQA
hoorah
All you guys are a bunch of dumbasses.......do you really think that the decision hasn't been made?
Do you know that the major Olympic sponsor for the past 37 years (McDonald's) has all but told the IOC that they won't bankroll their end (10s of millions of dollars) if Chicago doesn't get the games?
Chalkie has a bigger franchise in Rio with 5,000+ reported murders a year. That's not counting the ones done by police hit squads on shitbags in that town. That along with no infrastructure and just not enough room dooms Rio.
They won't be in Madrid or Tokyo as both areas have had games in the recent past. The 2012 games are in London and we just had games in Peking. The US hasn't seen summer games since 1996, so 2016 will make it the right amount of time.
President Joemamabama is from Chicago and the IOC wants his clout behind the games.
We have the best money plan and the best gameplan.
We need the infrastructure that the US government will improve at their cost.
Were getting the games, get used to it,,,,all the protesting in the world isn't going to stop it.
the DUMB-ASSES from Shitcago made the Olympic Torch and Flame the WRONG Color !
Shut Down The Bid! The International Olympic Committee will be in town from April 2-8th to evaluate Chicago as a potential host city. Join No Games Chicago at a rally on Thursday April 2nd, 5pm at Federal Plaza. I'll be there proudly wearing my Chalkie 2016 T-shirt.
I'll be there carrying a sign protesting discriminating against police officers regarding fair and prompt contract settlements, and overall crime and corruption in Chicago. This will be some real fun. Hope Kass shows up!
Wow, the only one that looked amazing and like it made any sense was Chalkie!
Nice work. :)
You all be safe out there.
Where is the A/3 Gang Enforcement? Dozens of bangers. 024 shooting it out in broud daylight!!
The city has canceled another recruit class. They were suppose to start in May. With the exodus expected after we get a contract, it looks like we could dip below the 9000 mark by years end...Scary
They're going to have groups of children bearing flowers meet the IOC people at every stop.....for real.
Protests won't be tolerated.
Glad it's only once a year, otherwise I might have to renounce my Irish heritage!(lol)
It's looking more like Bud Biliken every year.
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Amen!
A lot of those tween girls pissing in the middle of the street in the middle of the day are daughters of police officers (north and southside). God knows what they start doing when the sun goes down.
Too many cops do not give their children a proper upbringing and it shows. By the time a teenaged daughter is peeing in a crowded street, the war is over, and it is lost.
How so many on this job let today's culture bleed into their own homes is beyond me. They should know better.
I think the younger parents on this job should take a look at this parade and remind themselves what is really important in this world.
It isn't city corruption, or department favoritism, or reverse racism, or the mayor, or chalkie, or any of that other silly bullshit police deal with everyday.
It's what happens in your home and the examples you give your children. Those examples are what those kids are going to take with them when they go out into what can be a very unforgiving world.
TO: Where is the A/3 Gang Enforcement? Dozens of bangers. 024 shooting it out in broud daylight!!
3/15/2009 07:16:00 PM
Stuck at the parade
If the city does not get a contract done with FOP in principal by 03 April 09 we should do informational picketing at one of the larger events between the 5-7th. But I would leave the chalkie tee shirts at home. The public does not share the same concerns we have for all of the potential doctors gunned down in the prime of their lives. The union by state law came not be involved in the organization of this. But if only 30 people show up we will look like fools too. So lets work on this.
HEY HEY HEYYYY HAS J FED OR ANY OF HIS COHERTS TAKEN AND PASSED THE POWER TEST. OR FOR THAT MATTER TAKEN ONE . SHOW US J FED LET'S TAPE HIM DOING IT
Anonymous said...
Where is the A/3 Gang Enforcement? Dozens of bangers. 024 shooting it out in broud daylight!!
3/15/2009 07:16:00 PM
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Unless the gang bangers are pissing in an alley or riding their bicycles on the sidewalk, the super squad A3 teams won't find them.
Who is this lucky guy who gets this contract?
The South Side Irish Parade Committee is happy to offer interested residents, organizations and businesses within a reasonable vicinity of the parade route the opportunity to participate in our portable restroom contract. Under that contract, portable restrooms are available for rental for $75.00 for the day of the parade, which represents a substantial discount from the retail price.
If you are interested in renting a portable restroom, please send or drop off a check for $75.00 multiplied by the number of restrooms that you’d like to rent to Patrick Heffernan, 10734 S. Talman Ave., Chicago, IL, 60655. The ordering deadline is Monday, March 9, 2009.
Hey Mayor Shortshanks and Ron Luberman. Why the hell is a son of a leader of the Gangster Disciples-the kid who resides in Hazelcrest, Il. going to a Shitcago Public High School at our taxpayers expense? No wonder Shanks never comes to the Southside Irish Parade. Shortstuff can't take the heat but he'll kiss the play Revs butts. SILLY SILLY SILLY. F--k Shortshanks i.e. Mayor thieving Daley.
That's awesome
Huh. Before I enlarged that first "Imagine" one to see it was a gymnast, I thought it was a post bomb blast radiating from our city. A much more likely scenario.
3/15/2009 01:28:00 AM
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That's what I thought it was...
Where is the A/3 Gang Enforcement? Dozens of bangers. 024 shooting it out in broud daylight!!
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the key word in that last statement is "dozens of gangbangers"... they are in other parts of the city where there are thousands of gangbangers shooting it out daily.. stop trying to make 024 out to be some hard ghetto.. they are in areas where they should be..... what a joke... dozens of gangbangers...laughable!
(OT) I work at o'hare the olympic idiots are due in to look at shitcago 1 last time, we just got a memo on how to treat them! Wait until we asked what we think? I would as my fellow officers will tell them about our very high homocide rate and the thivery due to daley! Come on in committee and we will tell you the truth!
"Chicago’s Olympics plan relies heavily on existing and temporary structures which has lowered the overall cost.
"'We don't have to invest in a new airport and we don't have to invest in transit system. We just have to build on what we have,' said Chicago 2016 President Lori Healey.
http://www.wbbm780.com/pages/
3853287.php?
Airport?
"Mayor Daley...did suggest spending $50 million on the expansion of O'Hare International Airport."
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/
chicago.stimulus.money.2.957405
.html
Transit system?
"Here is a look at Illinois earmarks in the $410 billion spending measure approved by the Senate late Tuesday."
"CHICAGO TRANSIT ($36 MILLION): Today’s legislation includes over $36 million in funding to create a new transit line, the Circle line, in Chicago
"The proposed Circle Line...is...a key component of the City's transportation strategy for the 2016 Olympics."
http://blogs.dailyherald.com/
node/1597
Hmm.
Here, Daley enlists drinking buddies to pressure for the Olympics -- as if they're going to help it.
"The nation’s mayors officially endorsed Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics during the Saturday session of the group’s 77th Winter Meeting in Washington D-C. Mayor Richard M. Daley spearheaded the endorsement from the 250 plus member U-S Conference of Mayors."
http://www.wbbm780.com/pages/
3679281.php?
...and this...
"Chicago's Olympics fundraising ambitions target some of the industries hardest hit by the financial crisis.
"The city is counting on a major bank, a home-improvement firm and companies in nine other categories to pony up an average of $100 million each toward a 2016 Summer Games.
"Chicago's sponsorship target is the single biggest source of funds to pay for the $3.3 billion it's estimated the games will cost. Unlike the three other cities competing for the 2016 games — Tokyo; Madrid, Spain, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — Chicago doesn't have blanket government financial guarantees backing up its bid.
"Recent moves by some large U.S. companies suggest Chicago faces a tough road. Atlanta-based Home Depot Inc. ended its U.S. Olympic Committee sponsorship in January."
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/
cgi-bin/article.pl?articleId=31486
I can't quite track down the story I heard on the radio today quoting a member of the Chicago 2016 committee as saying that we'll need to spend billions on "infrastructure improvements" -- which will all be wonderful and useful after the Olympics are over.
Man, this thing is going to cost...and cost...and cost...do you get the impression that they're, well, lying about the total bill?
NO OLYMPIC$!
I think they should let the Chicago school children make the design, just like they did for the Kennedy Expressway signs. Did anyone notice that the Black P-Stone middle schooler (I think) had the winning design. If you ever are stuck in traffic around 57th to 47th,specifically at 51st street---look at the designs on the wall. One is of the Chicago skyline. All of the windows on the left hand sides of the buildings are lit up. There is a cresent moon and a star of david. How the heck did ANYBODY miss this? Why is it still up. There ar 4 of these things on the Wall. When you get the chance, look at it...Things that make you go hmmmm
Chalkie was in 25 tonite. He looks tired.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The city has canceled another recruit class. They were suppose to start in May. With the exodus expected after we get a contract, it looks like we could dip below the 9000 mark by years end...Scary
3/15/2009 07:31:00 PM
What contract? The only raises anyone is going to get are step increases. No raises no retro. Please brother and sister officers read the writing on the wall.
GREAT IDEA, 10:57 PM!
But please. Don't tell the IOC about the "homocide rate and thivery." [sic]
Tell them about the "homIcide rate and thiEvery."
Thank you.
Is Chalike married? He's cute. I am very interested in him.
The Olympics in Chicago will only make money for two groups. The politicians and the prostitutes.
I thought the second one was a computer monitor. That chalkie guy looks like he's wearing mittens
Anonymous said...
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The city has canceled another recruit class. They were suppose to start in May. With the exodus expected after we get a contract, it looks like we could dip below the 9000 mark by years end...Scary
3/15/2009 07:31:00 PM
What contract? The only raises anyone is going to get are step increases. No raises no retro. Please brother and sister officers read the writing on the wall.
3/16/2009 12:56:00 AM
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GIVE IT A REST WAYNE!
The contract is close. And, yes there will be a retro check. And you are never ever going to the President!
Hey Not-A-Cop troll:
Kennedy Expressway signs. Did anyone notice that the Black P-Stone middle schooler (I think) had the winning design. If you ever are stuck in traffic around 57th to 47th,specifically at 51st street....
Only at that point it's called the Dan Ryan Expressway. Stay off our blog, poser.
Big St Pats party wkend why did no boss in 019 or 023 have a clue from Caps that all the bars would be opening at 0900hrs both days and thousands of underage and 20 somethings would be drinking,driving, roving about pub crawling and tossing liquor cans & bottles at each other and off rooftops along Clark & Southport atc,...can't the liquor license laws be enforced. Oh maybe, but you would need more than 1 2man tact unit up while all the disturbances/car accidents/battery victims/man & woman down etc calls were being handled non stop by the beat cars....we got lucky and barely got by yet again.....so about whiteshirt accountability, that only pertains to the field sgts, right Super W. ????
OT:
For those who like to stretch every paycheck here is something my wife found, If you buy a gift card from Jewel Foods before April 15 (tax refund promo) in the amount of $300 Jewels will add $30 to the amount on the card. For $300 you get $330 worth of groceries. Add in your regular coupons, sale items etc. and buy at a Jewels outside of Chicago and you can save a few bucks.
For the arithmetically challenged that is an automatic 10% discount. Not bad. Shop outside of Cook County and save even more (another 2%)
Every little bit helps.
3/15/2009 01:33:00 PM
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Agreed, it sounds like a great deal and thanks for posting it.
But, guy; the name of the store is Jewel. No 'S'. Jewels are something else entirely.
Cue the Keesing Bandit...
Per Chicago 2016 CEO Pat Ryan: "Chicago is known for its warm and welcoming people and its hospitable nature, and we hope to demonstrate this to the Evaluation Commission next month."
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Has the media been warned not to report any crimes during the time the committee is in town?
Anonymous said...
The Olympics in Chicago will only make money for two groups. The politicians and the prostitutes.
3/16/2009 06:42:00 AM
The difference is that there is honor in being a prostitute. They give you what you pay for. I would rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son who is a politician.
New design for Chaulkie tshirts- I love it
I would rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son who is a politician.
Good thing your son has two step-sisters. More luv to go around at the FOP hall.
Yes, I do know quite a bit about jewels. Family and otherwise.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
"Yes, I do know quite a bit about jewels. Family and otherwise.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
3/17/2009 12:37:00 PM"
Would that be knowledge in the biblical sense?
http://blogs.chicagoreader.com/politics/2009/03/18/olympic-march/
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