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David G
I joined this website early in 2010 and was a keen visitor throughout that year. Nowadays I am a lot less comfortable participating here thanks to the removal of voter anonymity. I don't want people to know I have voted for them, and nor should I be entitled to know who has voted for me: ballot boxes aren't supposed to be transparent.
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I like the initial pun, but then this turns into something I wouldn't vote for.
06:04pm
Jenny from the blockage.
06:46pm
Each to their own, but I don't feel comfortable around this caption.
06:30pm
You've missed out the t in plastic but you get my voe anyway.
03:07pm
Whenever Scunthorpe is mentioned, I think of this advert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQqUCd9zfS0
01:03pm
"When you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the knitting."
"Say hello to my needle friend."
And so on.
01:58pm
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Joan#Related_issues
10:56am
I wonder whether the down-vote is entirely fair. Exposing the captioneer's behaviour was the right thing to do, and maybe that was enough. After all, the vote sits not against his/her behaviour but against his/her caption, which arguably does not merit it.
When I first started visiting this website, down-votes were disabled, and that was part of what encouraged me to keep coming back. I hope upon hope that I never do anything to incur one.
02:55pm
The speech marks have been used faultlessly; though the way I was taught, there should be a comma after 'said' as well.
12:00pm
The lack of commas is faithful to the original title. Maybe it's because BBC Three viewers don't have time for pauses but the closing question mark suits their like upward-inflection-at-the-end-of-sentences thing?
12:52pm
last comments (total: 11)
Excellent!
05:27pm
I have tried longer captions instead of puns lately. Maybe my longer captions are crap but it is clear that puns are more liked. Maybe people are to lazy to read and think about them (ofcourse a pun is quicker)..but actually I think it has to do with voting. On average the voting top 15 is more or less the same...maybe these captioneers slightly enjoy puns more often than the longer ones, so if there are captioneers complaining or annoyed that puns get all the votes....than start voting for longer captions yourself! If I don't get any points after entering 12 long captions I have to conclude that puns work better untill people start voting for longer captions. How great and original a captioneer can be, when not voting one should not complain about the voting..
12:19pm
While I can never resist a well-placed pun, I tend to feel in general that a good pun and a good caption are not the same thing. The voting on this website always seems to tell me otherwise. Sometimes a short, sharp pun does present itself as the best possible way of captioning a given photo; but not, in my opinion, quite as often as the voting would suggest. While I like to reward the most pleasing puns with a vote, I am happier voting for captions that explore a photo's potential at greater length, i.e. in a proper sentence. The same goes for my writing of captions.
Here is a submission that stuck in my mind. It could not even be classed as a good pun: it's just cheap, opportunistic wordplay, isn't actually funny and yet somehow it got the most votes. In an ideal world, that would not happen. This is hardly a victory to be proud of.
And what gives me the right to slate this 'caption'? I'm the one who submitted it.
03:28pm
My failed attempt to suck up to the boss. :)
06:47pm
A risky strategy, appealing to the Beckett fans. That'll be both of us, then- it worked for me. 'Spooooooooool!'
03:30pm
how did that get a vote?? pmsl
06:52pm
clever ,like it .
12:15pm
lol
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While I can never resist a well-placed pun, I tend to feel in general that a good pun and a good caption are not the same thing. The voting on this website always seems to tell me otherwise. Sometimes a short, sharp pun does present itself as the best possible way of captioning a given photo; but not, in my opinion, quite as often as the voting would suggest. While I like to reward the most pleasing puns with a vote, I am happier voting for captions that explore a photo's potential at greater length, i.e. in a proper sentence. The same goes for my writing of captions.
Here is a submission that stuck in my mind. It could not even be classed as a good pun: it's just cheap, opportunistic wordplay, isn't actually funny and yet somehow it got the most votes. In an ideal world, that would not happen. This is hardly a victory to be proud of.
And what gives me the right to slate this 'caption'? I'm the one who submitted it.
03:28pm
I have tried longer captions instead of puns lately. Maybe my longer captions are crap but it is clear that puns are more liked. Maybe people are to lazy to read and think about them (ofcourse a pun is quicker)..but actually I think it has to do with voting. On average the voting top 15 is more or less the same...maybe these captioneers slightly enjoy puns more often than the longer ones, so if there are captioneers complaining or annoyed that puns get all the votes....than start voting for longer captions yourself! If I don't get any points after entering 12 long captions I have to conclude that puns work better untill people start voting for longer captions. How great and original a captioneer can be, when not voting one should not complain about the voting..
12:19pm