Guess who’s back… Back again… Bill and Bob… Back, my friend… Well, sort of back. Now they aren’t as prominent as they were before. They’ve on a different billboard tucked in between a gas station and a sign shop/car storage (the outer suburbs, guys <shrug>) But get this: Here’s the full text of the billboard God BlessedAMERICAChoose Hope Over FearRespectfully…Bill, Bob, et alPaid for by Duckhead Partners LLC · duckheadpartners@gmail.com Guys, they posted an email address! They claimed who was responsible for these. They do have accountability! Super tiny “don’t look at me” accountability but nonetheless… So what’s Duckhead? Sounds like investment bankers. LLC means “limited liability company”. Is it…
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The End of Bill and Bob (for now?)
So last week I drove down to Hwy 7 and was delighted to be reminded that the first of the month means (possible billboard changes). And nothing delighted me more than to see an advertisement for Grove Bank instead of Bill and Bob’s empty rhetoric. But the real question was… did the other side get the same treatment? Yes, it did! Now there’s a beautiful sign welcoming you to St. Bonifacius, with a lovely photograph of a bike trail in the fall (see above). Does this mean Bill and Bob are no more? I doubt it. I’ve seen their tirades come and go before. But now that Biden’s in office…
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Bill & Bob: Where Are They Now?
So I’m sure you’re all dying to know what’s happened to Bill and Bob since my first article in 2016 and my second in 2019. They ain’t gone away, that’s for sure. I thought they did, but like the cat, they came back. And I still gotta stare at this shit every time I work out. I can’t remember when it went up but the one that said “Dear Congress, ILLEGAL IS ILLEGAL, Sincerely Bill & Bob” returned. I think it originally appeared because of the disagreements over immigration policy (i.e. children in cages), but it became especially appropriate around the impeachment (they don’t change their billboards often). That was…
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The Return of Bill and Bob
I thought I was done with them. I thought maybe they’d died or run out of money. But nope, they’ve put up a new billboard. Granted I was sick of the Lord Fletcher’s one that had been there for years. All it had was an image of a walleye dinner with “Wally Wally” as a caption. Didn’t make a lot of sense to me, and all it did was make me hungry. But when I saw it, I was usually on my way home to dinner anyway. And after two or so years of looking at it, it started to become unappetizing. Two years is about the same amount of…
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Bill and Bob and the Billboard of Shame
So where I live in the sub-sub-suburbs, there are often political billboards in the farm fields. (Mostly speaking out against abortion, like the “I had fingerprints at two months” kinda stuff.*) But there’s one right where I leave my neighborhood in the morning. They started about a year ago, maybe two. It’s always some political message in the form of a letter, and signed “Sincerely, Bill and Bob”. The message is always some trite phrase like “Dear Mr. President, LEAD, don’t follow” and “Dear Congress, Political correctness is NOT correct”**. But this most recent one broke my camel’s back. And keep in mind I’ve got to stare at this every…
