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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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Carting this around is app hauling. |
11/11/10 |
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"OK, I've put in my digits, now what?" |
15/02/10 |
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"Frankly, it's a welcome break from blooming Dairy Milk." |
15/12/10 |
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Salad daze |
02/11/11 |
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Elmo was delighted he'd managed to restore his hurricane-damaged house and garden before the sale went through. He'd even remembered to put the dandelion clock back. |
30/10/11 |
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The Emperor needed to stop having fry-ups. They were turning him into the fat tum menace. |
25/02/11 |
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As the smell wafted to Tatooine, Luke was soon tempted ova to the sunny side. |
25/02/11 |
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Ruff and reddy |
12/09/10 |
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Sign flu. comments (total: 2) |
24/02/10 |
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Bruinette. |
08/02/10 |
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Suzette wasn't lapin up the attention. comments (total: 1)Now we're on to French word play at Caption Competition. Has to be a thumbs up for that alone. 13/03/10
12:46pm |
13/03/10 |
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"I don't get that one. Why would a cat want a cheeseburger in the first place?" |
09/03/10 |
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A chop, a skip and a dump. |
25/02/10 |
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Pop ♥ |
12/11/11 |
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"Come and play, everything's A-OK" |
30/10/11 |
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Entomb-ology |
16/10/11 |
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Cat on a hot bin roof. |
10/11/10 |
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If looks could gill |
16/09/10 |
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"I've worked out how to burn CDs!" |
16/08/10 |
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Many miles away, a soldier is staring at a bouquet and saying, "What the hell happened to my hand grenade?" |
25/06/10 |
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Pug of war |
10/06/10 |
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Golden, blown, texture like sun comments (total: 1) |
24/04/10 |
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"Does my bum look big in this?" |
19/04/10 |
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Bride comes before a fall. |
18/04/10 |
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Soldier boy. |
03/04/10 |
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Available from all good chopping channels. |
18/03/10 |
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Two more competitors crash out of the ice cream eating contest. |
03/03/10 |
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Nearby bongs indicated she was high. |
27/02/10 |
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Air conditioning as standard. |
25/02/10 |
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Carcass. |
25/02/10 |
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"Hahaha! No but seriously, we do want to get to Battersea." |
23/02/10 |
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The hall of residence's new toilet was designed to accommodate all head sizes. |
22/02/10 |
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"We're going to keep our brand new loo fresh and clean. No whiffs, no butts." |
22/02/10 |
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"Of course there isn't room to swing me, that's why I'm in here." |
18/02/10 |
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Urine for a surprise. |
12/02/10 |
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It was only after starting at the salon that Goldilocks began to work through her issues. |
08/02/10 |
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Tamsin smiled as the stylist got to work on the second bear. |
08/02/10 |
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On the lookout for a beehive. |
08/02/10 |
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Toto realised now that he didn't know Dorothy quite as well as he thought. |
06/02/10 |
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How much is that doggie in the picture? |
06/02/10 |
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Something wickhead this way comes comments (total: 1) |
09/12/11 |
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Avast behind! |
13/11/11 |
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Move Over, Dali |
12/11/11 |
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Doug hated having to get up when he was shattered. |
12/11/11 |
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He's ready for an app. |
14/02/11 |
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If you prick me do I not read? |
25/11/10 |
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Bin feline a bit down. |
10/11/10 |
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It all catches up with the cat from the Bacardi Breezer ads. |
10/11/10 |
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Mary Bale hesitated, before shaking her head. "Nah, bin there, dumped cat." |
10/11/10 |
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"Hi, Room Service? Yes, we've run out of towels." |
28/10/10 |
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top comments (total: 14)
I like the initial pun, but then this turns into something I wouldn't vote for.
06:04pm
comment on caption: Wee Yeung Boi would learn the hard way when playing 'shut your eyes and open your mouth' [Stephen Paterson]
Jenny from the blockage.
06:46pm
comment on caption: A novel use for Jennifer Lopez's enema bag. [Eileen M.]
Each to their own, but I don't feel comfortable around this caption.
06:30pm
comment on caption: Despite the recent warm weather, only the most hardy smoke outside in Cumbria as it was minus 12. [Stephen Paterson]
You've missed out the t in plastic but you get my voe anyway.
03:07pm
comment on caption: RIP .... "Bloody plastic bags hope the chicken doesn't fall out". [Austin Marry]
Whenever Scunthorpe is mentioned, I think of this advert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQqUCd9zfS0
01:03pm
comment on caption: Scunthorpe resident enjoys a rare day out in the sun. [Ian Skelding]
"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
comment on caption: Al Pacino's Mum was so good at knitting, she was known as Scarf Ace [Rob Falconer]
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Joan#Related_issues
10:56am
comment on caption: The Pope has just had this delivered. It's his Holy chair. [Ian Skelding]
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
comment on caption: Who knew the blue plastic bottle was filled with gunpowder? [I Grade Dice]
The speech marks have been used faultlessly; though the way I was taught, there should be a comma after 'said' as well.
12:00pm
comment on caption: "So I took my knickers off and said 'Have you ever seen a red-haired twat before?', and he said 'Yes, Mick Hucknall.'" [Paul Woolley]
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
comment on caption: Snog Marry Burn at the stake? [Rob Falconer]
last comments (total: 11)
Excellent!
05:27pm
comment on caption: Something wickhead this way comes [David G]
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
comment on caption: Sign flu. [David G]
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
comment on caption: Sign flu. [David G]
My failed attempt to suck up to the boss. :)
06:47pm
comment on caption: This one's crisp... and so's that one. They're crisp each. [David G]
A risky strategy, appealing to the Beckett fans. That'll be both of us, then- it worked for me. 'Spooooooooool!'
03:30pm
comment on caption: If Krapp's Last Tape were a porno [David G]
how did that get a vote?? pmsl
06:52pm
comment on caption: Noticing the word 'scarecrow' etched on his friend's crotch-plate, Lion was reminded of the old slogan about doing exactly what it said on the tin. [David G]
clever ,like it .
12:15pm
comment on caption: Golden, blown, texture like sun [David G]
lol
08:14pm
comment on caption: With a new throne off Freecycle, he was clawing his way back from a defeat to He-Man that had cost him everything. [David G]
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