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Marker placed at Hyde Park shopping center where Obamas shared first kiss
Chicago Tribune-
“On our first date, I treated her to the finest ice cream Baskin-Robbins had to offer, our dinner table doubling as the curb. I kissed her, and it tasted like chocolate.”
As landscapers added the finishing touches, placing orange impatiens around the boulder placed in a flower bed near the entrance of the Dorchester Commons shopping center, curious residents trickled by to snap pictures.
The 3,000-pound granite boulder, commissioned by the owners of Dorchester Commons, was 2 1/2 years in the making, according to Jonelle Kearney, a spokeswoman for Mid-America Asset Management, which manages the shopping center. She said the idea came about after several queries from visitors.
“It’s a marker for the community, for posterity and tourism, too,” she said.
Linda Swift, 67, said the marker gives tourists another reason to visit Hyde Park, the Obamas’ old stomping ground. It’s not far from the Hyde Park Hair Salon on Blackstone Avenue, where the barber chair Obama used to sit in to get his hair cut is on display, enclosed in glass.
ht/ Mary From Marin
iOTW discovered a few more markers.
DanlBoone
August 16th, 2012
aw heck..
isn’t that nauseating
Moe Tom
August 16th, 2012
Oforfucksakegimmeafuckinbreakalready!!!
dude
August 16th, 2012
That will be the most pissed on rock in Chicago, and I am not counting dogs.
DanlBoone
August 16th, 2012
if plaques were placed at each site of
Obama’s Famous Worldwide Apology Tour–
we’re talking lotsa plaques right there.
Moe Tom
August 16th, 2012
But the other markers are funny.
captiva
August 16th, 2012
I kissed her and it tasted like: 5 Christmas hams, 2 slabs of ribs, 6 fried chickens, 4 sugar pies, & 10 pounds of lard
Boobie the Rocket Dog
August 16th, 2012
I wonder who underwrote the cost of that waste of stone and space …
Moe Tom
August 16th, 2012
“I kissed her and it tasted like Hershey H…….”
US Navy Corpseman
August 16th, 2012
Grounds keepers kept busy planting fresh flowers, as urine puddles keep killing shrubs.
loshonhora
August 16th, 2012
dude, lets hope the libtard tourists start kissing it like the blarney stone. aka, the most pissed on rock in ireland.
dude
August 16th, 2012
“…….tasted like chocolate”
Sorry Barry, that was not chocolate….
dude
August 16th, 2012
That is rock abuse!
Goldenfoxx
August 16th, 2012
I wonder how long it will take for them to turn green or someone steals them for recycle?
Corny
August 16th, 2012
“It was here that Obama first found a female so masculine and dominating that for the ‘first time in his life’ he could stand to be around a female.”
Renthal
August 16th, 2012
I wonder how long it will be before someone takes a pic of someone pissing on the marker
Kool Aid
August 16th, 2012
shame I am 2000 miles away or I would treat that rock like the TOLERANT COEXIST LIBERALS treat a Chick Fill a
sybilll
August 16th, 2012
BFH, The irony of all of this is that BAIN Capital saved Baskin-Robbins. I’m not kidding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bain_Capital
I’ll save James Taranto the time (you have to be on Twitter to get the joke):
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Carlsonal
August 16th, 2012
On this spot Barry Soetoro grew a beard.
Friend of the family
August 16th, 2012
@Moe Tom
Thanks a lot Moe! Now I’ll never be able to eat my favorite chocolate bar again. Yuch!
Chuck U Farley
August 16th, 2012
Big Whoop!
“On this spot Barack Obama had his first heterosexual experience”
“(That is, if we can prove the sexuality of Moose)”
Jim
August 16th, 2012
Where’s the limo Sinclair blew him in?
Stirrin the B.S.
August 16th, 2012
@Moe Tom – “…Oforfucksakegimmeafuckinbreakalready…”
I can’t find that word in the dictionary. What’s it mean?
You’re giving supercalifragilisticexpealidotious a run for it’s money!
Stirrin the B.S.
August 16th, 2012
Moose’s recollection of that first kiss was that it tasted like vanilla-chocolate swirl.
reddecaesari
August 16th, 2012
he’s the most interesting man in the world.
and his days are numbered………….
Xavier
August 16th, 2012
Plz get GPS #s and I’ll add it to my Duce List.
Chuck U Farley
August 16th, 2012
“…our dinner table doubling as the curb…”
They ate off the curb? I guess the scoops fell out of the cones, ala Sad-O, and they just lapped it up.
“Mmmm, curb concrete & cigarette butts. Tastes like chocolate.”
mcnorman
August 16th, 2012
Can you do another “On this site is where Barack had his school records shredded?”
Chuck U Farley
August 16th, 2012
“On this spot in Hawaii Barack Millhouse Obama was initiated into the ‘Choom Gang’ by being the pivot man in the Scooby Doo Choomobile.
Jethro
August 16th, 2012
On this site in Honolulu, on Feb 1, 1961, Barack Hussein Obama Sr. agreed to marry a 17 year old, pregnant Stanley Ann Dunham, even though he had never had sexual relations with her. At that moment her father and Frank Marshall Davis handed him $5,000 to pay for delinquent student loan bill…..
Unneutral
August 16th, 2012
I’d rather see a marker where I took my first shit in the woods.
Jethro
August 16th, 2012
….meanwhile, Miss Dunham failed miserably at her third home abortion attempt in the Dunham’s home bathroom.
Moe Tom
August 16th, 2012
Loshonhora. Come on, you can’t piss on the Blarney Stone. You have to bend over backwards to kiss it.
Which I did, many years ago. The fuckin’ taste in still in my mouth.
Roscoe P. Soultrane
August 16th, 2012
Wow…Living Color sure was prescient, right down to the Nobel Prize:
Look in my eyes, what do you see?
The cult of personality
I know your anger, I know your dreams
I’ve been everything you want to be
I’m the cult of personality
Like Mussolini and Kennedy
I’m the cult of personality
The cult of personality
The cult of personality
Neon lights, a Nobel prize
When the mirror speaks, the reflection lies
You won’t have to follow me
Only you can set me free
I sell the things you need to be
I’m the smiling face on your tv
I’m the cult of personality
I exploit you, still you love me
I tell you one and one makes three
I’m the cult of personality
Like Joseph Stalin and Gandhi
I’m the cult of personality
The cult of personality
The cult of personality
GW Bear
August 16th, 2012
On this spot Barry S told Moose that if they got married she wouldn’t have to do any of that icky heterosexual sex stuff, at least not with him. He knew that he would need to look like a normal man to get elected, at least that’s what Saul Alinsky told him.
Jethro
August 16th, 2012
At the same moment, in Chicago, William Ayers Sr, explains to his high school aged son, Billy, the philosophy of Karl Marx, along with the highly embellished “true” story of Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and how they gloriously lead the Bolshevic revolution.
Jethro
August 16th, 2012
On the same day, in Delaware, young Joe Biden tells his parents that when he graduates in June, he doesn’t want to be a two bit, used car salesman like his dad, but sees a better opportunity as a grifter…
Moe Tom
August 16th, 2012
I’ve been racking my brain. Can’t remember when or where I first kissed my wife. I know it was in Italy. So I asked her if she remembered. She said.
“Tom you need help, I wish you would stop drinking, you make no sense anymore.” So there you have it. I shoulda wrote it down, like obummer. Shit.
Moe Tom
August 16th, 2012
Stirrin the BS. Yougottakisstheblarneystonetocomeupwithawordlikethat.itscalledeloquenceofdiction. ipso facto.
MaryfromMarin
August 16th, 2012
On the steps of the U.S. Capitol building:
“On this spot, on January 20, 2009, Barry Soetoro pulled off the biggest fraud in the history of the United States.”
Anonymous
August 16th, 2012
I’m going to go piss on that obama shrine some day. I promiss
John Roberts
August 16th, 2012
@MaryfromMarin: “On the steps of the U.S. Capitol building:
“On this spot, on January 20, 2009, Barry Soetoro pulled off the biggest fraud in the history of the United States.””
And I helped! Just like Stove Top Stuffing.
RacKAttacK
August 16th, 2012
Man I really thought it would taste like disdain and contempt ……
RacKAttacK
August 17th, 2012
Or schnozzberries
RacKAttacK
August 17th, 2012
I kissed a girl and i liked it……do dooo dooo….seriously though, not really
louis
August 17th, 2012
They need to find the limo he shared with Larry Sinclair and put a marker on that!
scary black man
August 17th, 2012
“our dinner table doubling as the curb”???
What in the fucking hell does that mean?
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Never been to Chicago, but it would be worth it to pee on that stone. That stone would look good in my garden and I could get a few bucks recycling that metal plaque.
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plainjane31
August 17th, 2012
“When smashing monuments, save the pedestals – they always come in handy.”
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quotes (Polish writer, poet and satirist 1906-1966)
fred jimmer
August 19th, 2012
sasha and malia?…punished with ANOTHER mistake
66chevelle
August 19th, 2012
“And I helped! Just like Stove Top Stuffing”
Yeah good job with that, Roberts…so good you had to do a Reset on the inauguration. We should have taken that as an omen regarding both of your preening, sorry asses.