The town where i live doesn’t have a mayor, so this is Joyce Craig, my hometown mayor of Manchester, NH. Irk is having a bad hair day, it’s VERY humid here lately!
@dave I’m putting my name on the ballot to run in Carrollton, Texas. First on my agenda, all companies selling IRKs will be required by law to send the mayor an IRK.
@dave Hmmm I can be mayor of all sorts of imaginary towns.
wearing my thinking cap (the image that came up wasn’t visible to me here so I screenshot it elsewhere)
This actually seems like a fun challenge. Sorta sad that no one foundthemayor in the time frame, since I was tasked with giving out coupons for participation.
@ExtraMedium@Kyeh Also, if we can’t catch the mayor somewhere but could find our senator and/or governor, would they be an acceptable alternative? I hear about them heading places more often than the mayor (and I’ve met my sleazy senator several times). They may be easier to photograph in the background of Irk.
@OnionSoup I’d allow a sneaky shot of the mayor, but only if you’re also in the photo. It’s too easy to hold up an Irk from your car or in front of a building or even your TV and get someone in the background.
Also, the higher in office you can manage the better, and I’m willing to double the coupon value for that. But, unlike the mayor, we’ll say higher-level elected officials actually do have to know the photo happening and face the camera just to make that aspect of the challenge more exciting. Glenspeed, you masters of your craft!
@ExtraMedium lol… Ok. That should be a fun challenge… Going to keep my eyes open for campaigning stops and try to sneak irk with me. Cardboard Irk is going to have to live in the trunk of my car a little longer so I don’t miss an opportunity.
@ExtraMedium Ugh, this makes the challenge more enticing… but also my mayor is dealing with some stuff, and most of the higher politicians? Are kinda shitty.
So, I had as good a chance as anyone to win this challenge. Maybe a little better than everyone else. Turns out I work for the Mayor. As in, my office is in his suite at City Hall. As in I see him 2 or 3 times a day. And yet I just couldn’t find a way to broach this particular subject. I briefly considered a photoshop job using a snap of a Senior Staff meeting but the Mayor…uhmm…pays a lot of attention to social media. Sooner or later he’d find the picture and that would be an unfortunate way to end my illustrius four year career in municipal government.
This is the only mayor I’ll ever recognize.
@Ignorant If you can get a photo of Irk with THIS mayor. I mean. Wow. That would all-time.
Well, it just so happens that I live in Flavortown (don’t check my profile to confirm) and you know who is the self-proclaimed Mayor of Flavortown!
Here he is holding a picture of Irk. Doesn’t he look proud?
100% real. No photo editing.
@OnionSoup the fingers are haunting
@OnionSoup @zippyus
YIKES, they most certainly are!
@Lynnerizer @OnionSoup @zippyus Those must be his “chef’s asbestos fingers”…? Granted, I’ve never seen them quite so “developed.”
@ircon96 @Lynnerizer @zippyus terrible accident involving hairspray in the eyes and using a chef’s knife.
He tries to be more careful of his fingers these days when cutting, but the damage is already done.
@OnionSoup @zippyus …just maybe his knife skills are not as on point as we may think
Anyone feel like a road trip to Alaska?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stubbs_(cat)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkeetna,_Alaska
@narfcake Georgetown CO has a dog mayor:
https://linktr.ee/officialsnowdog
@narfcake Here is a photo of that cat mayor
/giphy Americas mayor
The town where i live doesn’t have a mayor, so this is Joyce Craig, my hometown mayor of Manchester, NH. Irk is having a bad hair day, it’s VERY humid here lately!
fyi it’s allowable to run for mayor, get elected, and then post a selfie with a photo of Irk.
@dave What’s the deadline?
@dave I’m putting my name on the ballot to run in Carrollton, Texas. First on my agenda, all companies selling IRKs will be required by law to send the mayor an IRK.
@dave Hmmm I can be mayor of all sorts of imaginary towns.
wearing my thinking cap (the image that came up wasn’t visible to me here so I screenshot it elsewhere)
Does this mayor count?
@phendrick IMO, more than just about any other.
Irk and I stopped by City Hall while sight seeing. Unfortunately, it was after hours so no mayor.
This actually seems like a fun challenge. Sorta sad that no one
foundthemayorin the time frame, since I was tasked with giving out coupons for participation.@ExtraMedium There was a time frame?
@Kyeh Well, yeah…before now. lol
Actually, we can probably find some wiggle room if you manage to get a legit photo with Irk and a real mayor before the end of the year.
@ExtraMedium @Kyeh Does the mayor have to know and acknowledge Irk, or can we sneak in a photo with the mayor in the background…
@ExtraMedium @Kyeh Also, if we can’t catch the mayor somewhere but could find our senator and/or governor, would they be an acceptable alternative? I hear about them heading places more often than the mayor (and I’ve met my sleazy senator several times). They may be easier to photograph in the background of Irk.
@OnionSoup I’d allow a sneaky shot of the mayor, but only if you’re also in the photo. It’s too easy to hold up an Irk from your car or in front of a building or even your TV and get someone in the background.
Also, the higher in office you can manage the better, and I’m willing to double the coupon value for that. But, unlike the mayor, we’ll say higher-level elected officials actually do have to know the photo happening and face the camera just to make that aspect of the challenge more exciting. Glenspeed, you masters of your craft!
@ExtraMedium lol… Ok. That should be a fun challenge… Going to keep my eyes open for campaigning stops and try to sneak irk with me. Cardboard Irk is going to have to live in the trunk of my car a little longer so I don’t miss an opportunity.
@ExtraMedium I feel like @metaphore got close, though.
@ExtraMedium @metaphore @Thumperchick Not only that, but he got a landmark too!
@ExtraMedium Ugh, this makes the challenge more enticing… but also my mayor is dealing with some stuff, and most of the higher politicians? Are kinda shitty.
No, not kinda, definitely shitty.
So, I had as good a chance as anyone to win this challenge. Maybe a little better than everyone else. Turns out I work for the Mayor. As in, my office is in his suite at City Hall. As in I see him 2 or 3 times a day. And yet I just couldn’t find a way to broach this particular subject. I briefly considered a photoshop job using a snap of a Senior Staff meeting but the Mayor…uhmm…pays a lot of attention to social media. Sooner or later he’d find the picture and that would be an unfortunate way to end my illustrius four year career in municipal government.
@Frcal try the universal access key - bribe him. Works for special interests. And what’s more special than Meh?
@Frcal offer him some Trackrs in exchange for the photo.
@Frcal @OnionSoup Stroopwafels would be better bribe material, IMO. No wait. A box of Stroopwafels with a Trackr in/on it!