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Caption contest!
Thursday, Oct 10, 2024 - Posted by Rich Miller * I had to give a speech today, which took me out of the office for a couple of hours. Isabel is still under the weather, so I have pretty much nothing for you. Sorry about that. But here’s a pic from 20 years ago at the Illinois State Fair. That’s me on the left and Isabel on the right…  Photo credit: Devin Miller.
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- Frumpy White Guy - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 2:35 pm:
You haven’t aged a bit.
- Give Me A Break - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 2:36 pm:
Stop making me feel old. Just stop it.
- George Ryan Reynolds - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 2:38 pm:
Are we sure that’s not Rick Pearson on the left?
- Cubs in '16 - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 2:38 pm:
===That’s me on the left and Isabel on the right…===
Thanks for the clarification.
Caption: ‘Uncle Rich, look. It’s an honest politician on display. Can we go see it?’
- JoanP - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 2:38 pm:
= That’s me on the left and Isabel on the right… =
Thanks for clearing that up, Rich.
- Steve - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 2:43 pm:
Ronnie Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd spotted after 1977 checking his portfolio.
- Lurker - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 2:54 pm:
The real world is right over there. Why don’t you join it with me?
- James - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 2:54 pm:
Time goes by, and I don’t know why.
- Henry Haupt - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 2:54 pm:
Rich’s thought bubble in photo:
“I’m so lucky to be living in the Digital Age. Nothing will ever be better than this little phone here. Handy key pad. Screen the size of my thumb. This is the life!”
(Three years later, Steve Jobs introduces the iPhone and pops Rich’s thought bubble!).
- Leslie K - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 2:55 pm:
We’ve got a scoop right there, Uncle Rich [exclamation point]
Demonstrating her journalistic prowess at a young age.
- Walker - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 3:04 pm:
“Is he really buying that bull?”
- JackieKnows - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 3:07 pm:
Someday in the near future you will use devices like the one you are holding to take a picture of the cute kid.
- Ink-Stained Wretch - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 3:11 pm:
An anonymous but reliable source gives Miller one of his earliest scoops.
- DuPage Saint - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 3:13 pm:
Uncle Rich ignoring his niece while taking a message from Oswego Willie
- Jessica R - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 3:21 pm:
Three things.
Nice ABC Club shirt.
Bring back the Nokia and Motorolla phones. Those were the days.
I hope Isabelle feels better soon.
- sulla - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 3:23 pm:
“Miss, do you have any comments on JCAR’s proposed height restrictions for the Tilt-a-Whirl?”
- HSI - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 3:30 pm:
Uncle Rich, I want to be a Trooper when I grow up (exclamation point)
Or
I long for the days when capitolfax was really a fax and flip phones weren’t burners
- Just Me 2 - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 3:40 pm:
6644422233 7444222
- Downstate - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 3:42 pm:
“Uncle Rich, would you put down your StarTac phone long enough to look at the Apple booth?”
- Benjamin - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 3:50 pm:
Rich (putting phone away): “Okay, kid, this is off the record. Now tell me what you know about my Christmas present.”
- Beep booop - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 3:50 pm:
“Uncle Rich come quick, Governor Pritzker is ending all of his questions with ‘right?’ again”
- Beep booop - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 3:51 pm:
“Please pardon any transcription errors.”
- Rich Miller - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 3:52 pm:
===Nice ABC Club shirt===
I wore that until it fell apart lol
- Beep booop - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 3:54 pm:
“Isabel Miller (no relat— wait a sec, yes relation)”….
- NonAFSCMEStateEmployeeFromChatham - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 3:54 pm:
Rich: “I have to take a very important phone call, sounds like a big scoop.”
Isabel: “Is the Governor going to get indicted tonight?”
- Amalia - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 3:59 pm:
Isabel, already in charge, telling you in which direction to head.
- Rabid - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 4:04 pm:
I want a ride on the roundup
- Ducky LaMoore - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 4:23 pm:
“I want a hamburger, no… cheeseburger…. I want a hotdog, I want a milkshake…”
“You’ll get nothing and like it.”
- Keyrock - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 4:35 pm:
“It’s not true that the only good pictures here are the ones of Oscar.”
- @misterjayem - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 5:25 pm:
While waiting in line on the midway, Isabel pointed at the Roundup and told Rich, “That ride gives me an idea…”
– MrJM
- Michelle Flaherty - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 5:26 pm:
“Uncle Rich, don’t you remember, you parked the golf cart in the pond over there”
- Rich Miller - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 5:36 pm:
Michelle wins.
- 47th Ward - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 5:49 pm:
“No comment.”
- Dotnonymous x - Thursday, Oct 10, 24 @ 7:53 pm:
So fast…eh?…like in the blink of an eye.