Welcome to the first (and surely the last) ever photo caption contest here at Notes from….
My March 25 post about stolen Easter eggs (sorry, I had to embed the link; it’s a law of the internet) included a screamingly irrelevant photo of our neighbor J. But I’d better let you see the photo yourself:
After it appeared, J. went on Facebook and suggested a caption contest. So this is all her fault.
You should know before you leave your captions in the Comments box that we already have a winner. In fact, I declared it the winner when it was still the only entry. That’s how contests work around here. It’s J. regrets asking the plastic surgeon to “enlarge these puppies.” It comes from J. from New Zealand, who is not to be confused with our neighbor J. from Cornwall. You can tell them apart because only one of them has a dog in her shirt.
But let’s not focus on who gets to win, okay? It’s about the experience, as we were all told when we were eight years old and limped over the finish line last, bleeding, and covered in mud.
Or substitute some equivalent experience. The minute someone says, “as we were all told,” you just know it won’t apply to you, right? In the spirit of complete transparency, I wasn’t told that either. The phrase hadn’t been invented yet when I as eight. We’d barely gotten around to inventing language.
But please, all you strange and lovely people out there, send me a caption anyway. Because it’s that kind of photo. Because we’re that kind of crowd. I’m not sure what kind that is, exactly, but I’m very sure it’s the kind we are.
Get my balls out of your bra.
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No way am I going to compete with either J. !
That’s one cute puppy.
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The contest that was over before it began? You gotta love it! I’m not entering because I think my entry would be a trifle below the belt. In deference to grown-ups as opposed to “adults”.
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Now we’ll all wonder what it was. Or is. Or would have been.
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I’ll leave it to your imagination!
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Not always a wise idea.
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“Ridley Scott immediately regretted getting Disney involved in the remake of the Alien films…”
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Another good one. You guys are going to make me regret having already declared a winner.
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Well it wouldn’t do to make things easy ;-)
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Absolutely not.
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I don’t think I could come up with a better caption than the declared winner.
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Sadly, I couldn’t either.
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“Drink this,” they said. “It’ll put a little hair on your chest, they said.”
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Oooh, good one!
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Not nearly as good as the winner!
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But it’s been running around in my head since you sent it in, and making me laugh. So not bad at all.
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Oh good!
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Wait. The contest is over? You’ve already picked a winner? But you still want less than stellar caption? This is way too confusing…especially for a Monday. This caption thing is a great idea-you should do it again…but with a prize. You know, to make it exciting/enticing. Just an idea…;)
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Oh, you know how it is around here: I never quite do things the predictable way. Even when I mean to. And I had declared a winner, not only before I widened the contest audience but before anyone declared me the judge.
Come to think of it, no one’s declared me the judge yet. So if anyone else wants to step in and declare a different winner, that’d only be fair.
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What on earth is IN the water where you live? Kidding. I say, you stay on as Judge. You talk sense. ;)
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We’re not sure what’s in the water, but I’m told psychedelic mushrooms grow wild up on the moor. I haven’t gone looking, but it might explain a few things.
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Wahaha! Indeed it does.
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I don’t usually go around announcing that….
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Well yes. Probably best…but it actually could serve as a great defence. Or not. Hah!
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Um, yes Your Honor, it was in the water but I swear I didn’t put it there? Nah, I think I’ll try something else.
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Ok cool. But as far as defences go-its a good one. And not often used.
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*a less than stellar caption…
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I can’t compete – I must find a diet to put hairs on my chest
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Be careful what you wish for.
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:)
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“He’s so cute! What’s his name?”
“Sweater Puppy”
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They put all those people with chihuahuas in their handbags to shame.
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I was thinking that joke might fall flat with readers in the UK, but I figured you would get a kick out of it.
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As far as I can tell (and it’s not very far) it translates.
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Ha ha ha! That’s definitely a winner of a caption. There’s no way I can compete with that.
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Me neither. A few folks here are doing pretty well, though.
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Can’t come up with anything appropriate, but must say that J’s winning entry makes me think of a New Yorker cartoon caption.
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Y’know, you’re right. I’m never any good at coming up with those, but I do love the contest.
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“I inhaled. Does it show?”
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It always does, doesn’t it?
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I so love your take on caption contests. Some of these folks should never be discouraged from riffing on a photo, even if the trophy already left the building. Promote Wit!
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Now that’s in the spirit of the contest. Except there never was a trophy.
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And they called it, Puppy Looooove!
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I haven’t thought of that tune since–was it 1863? (No, that’s not a typo.) Now I’ll have it stuck in my head all day.
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When that happens, try thinking of a product jingle: “Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is.” It should replace the song in no time. Not much of an improvement, really, but at least the jingle is shorter and the lyrics easier to remember.
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Arrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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I’m not familiar with that product. Can you hum a few bars?
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I will, but lucky you, you won’t hear me.
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