I plan to post a new caption contest every Monday, as long as the creek doesn’t rise. (Fortunately for you, I don’t own a creek.) That said, it’s Monday, and here’s your new caption contest!
This week’s photo is of Superman hanging laundry. Well, it’s obviously not the real Superman, given how baggy his costume is, unless he’s really let himself go. Anyway, explain what might be going on here. Or make a joke about it. Or just say something funny that’s somehow related to the picture.
(To see the other caption contests, click on the “Say What?” category in the sidebar.)
You’ve probably seen the recent Batman movie The Dark Knight, featuring the Joker. (If you haven’t, what’s wrong with you? It’s only one of the best action movies ever!) Anyway, someone made a new trailer for that movie but set it in the context of the 1960s Batman TV series (which is good, but cheesy, and takes itself way too seriously). Prepare to be taken back in time*.
* Not literally. That technology is still in the research stage.
To some, Joe Biden is funny. What makes him funny is that he usually isn’t trying to be funny, but he makes so many verbal mistakes. Some even call him the “human gaffe machine”. In this video clip, he was giving a speech and the teleprompter blew over, so he made a joke at the expense of himself and Obama.
It’s good to be able to laugh at yourself, but isn’t it kinda sad that there’s such a reliance on teleprompters that Obama and Biden are known for extreme stuttering and making ridiculous unintended statements when they don’t have them? I mean, this is the President and Vice-President of the United States, some of the most powerful and influential people in the world! I know it’s more difficult to speak “off the cuff”, but they should know what they’re doing!
Oh, wait, I got kinda serious there. This is the wrong blog for that. My bad… Let’s go in a different direction.
If you happen to see a question-and-answer session or an interview with Obama where he doesn’t have a teleprompter, you could count how many times he says “Uhh” per minute. I used to do that with one of my foreign teachers in college who could barely speak English. (He averaged about 15 times per minute, which is once every four seconds. Imagine listening to that the whole class!) Counting this with Obama won’t cause you to miss much — he usually doesn’t answer the question anyway. Of course he’ll give an answer, but often he “speaks around” the answer, making “politically correct” statements but not actually answering the question or leaving out the specifics.
Earlier tonight I was on the road, and the radio was set to K-Love. The song “Whatever You’re Doing (Something Heavenly)” by Sanctus Real came on, and it came on again later that evening. (Is there such a shortage of good Christian songs that they have to replay the same ones every hour or so? The short answer: NO! Also, this happened about a week ago with a different song. That’s why I rarely listen to the station. But that’s a rant for another day.)
Anyway, the chorus of the song says, “You’re up to something bigger than me”, and I got to thinking about that. That’s BIG! I mean, for it to be bigger than me, that’s saying something! So I’m excited about that!
~ Thomas Wayne
(FYI, yes, this is humor. Or at least an attempt at it.)
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