Have at it! Winners announced… eventually.

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See, I thought for once that stating the obvious about a Caption Contest deadline — that I’d post the winner whenever, rather than a date I didn’t keep — might get you people off of my back. But nooooOOO.

So, you want a winner? Fine, you’ve got a winner. And a second place. And an honorable mention.

First Place: Bill with, “December 15, 2020: Now wait a minute, I didn’t say global global warming.”

Second Place: Timmer with, “Seriously? You ALL came on private jets and you ALL rented limos? Nobody thought to car pool?”

Honorable Mention: Ike with, “Back when I was pretending to grow up in Tennessee while going to DC prep schools, my nanna gave me this bit of wisdom: Never let leaked messages from a whistle-blower get in the way of a potentially-lucrative narrative.”

Happy now?

Photo credit: AFP

Winners announced… whenever.

(If you’re viewing this on Facebook, please click through to the original to post your caption!)

The winner (despite your “votes”) is:

Schizoid with:
Figure 3b. Atypical pinocchism with no nasal deformity.

Honorable mentions:

Will with:
If you experience your tie pointing sideways for more than four hours, contact your dry cleaner.

and

Ike with:
“Not to worry, Mr. Axelrod… to get the maximum possible impact for each phrase of empty rhetoric, we’ve programmed his tie to indicate which prompter he ought to face.”

It’s been a while since we played Word Fugue, that addictive word association game that fills space when I’ve got nothing else to blog about. (Well, I could tell you about the awesome shoes I bought, but if you’re a Facebook friend you’ve already seen them.)

So, what the heck, it’s almost Halloween, and since I love this time of year, let’s honor autumn with a round that’ll while away those extra hours of darkness.

If you’ve never played it before, here are the rules:

(NOTE: If you’re reading this on Facebook you’ve got to click thru to my blog to play.)

1. I start it off with a word.

2. You look at the most recently posted comment.

3. You leave ONE word that comes to mind upon reading the most recent comment.

4. You may play as many times as you like, but you may not use the same word twice.

5. Don’t leave links. They’ll only send you into comment moderation.

6. Word Fugues that wind up in comment moderation will get deleted.

7. The game continues until you bore me, at which point comments are closed.

Ready?

Here’s the word:

Reap

Your turn.

(If you’re reading this on Facebook, you need to click over and leave your caption at the blog.)

Winner announced Monday!

Funny, but I was just saying to myself the other day, “Self, wouldn’t it be great to play a game that fuels your paranoid political delusions? Wouldn’t it be just swell to game out, say, a political revolution in response to the administration’s abrogation of the Constitution and efforts to turn the country into a socialist state?”

It must be my lucky day, because today I found out about US of Earth, a MORPG organized by a bunch of Ron Paul supporters. (Really.)

The website notes that this rudimentary World of Warcraft-type multiplayer game—titled “2011 Obama’s Coup Fails”—is merely “an action-packed, satire-filled” entertainment. But it does say, “If current events keep transpiring as they are, then 2011 Obama’s Coup may in fact become a dark chapter in American History.”

The winner for this week’s Caption Contest is Brian J. with:

♫ People…
People who rule people…
Are the luckiest people in the world…
They’re children, our needy children… ♫

And Randy gets an Honorable Mention for almost making me pee with: Lady in Pink Blouse: “Eggs? check, Toilet paper? check, Bread? Check … my neighbors mortgage at the expense of my children’s education? … check.”