I figure you can’t have too many caption contests that have fire in them, can you? Either way, this week’s episode does.
It you want actual context, this is a fire on Mount McLean in Canada. But of course, you are welcome (and encouraged) to make up your own story / backstory for this. There’s lots of potential here, with a group of people sitting on their back porch watching a raging wildfire. What are they talking about? What will they do? Who is responsible for this catastrophe?
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Here is a cool video of Soundwave breakdancing — this is what you call doing the robot. 🙂 (If you don’t know, Soundwave was one of the Decepticons of Transformers lore; his Earth disguise mode was a jambox / cassette player.)
Supposedly this was initially put on YouTube in 2005, before YouTube was big, and it got to 15 million hits and crashed their servers. I saw it back in 2004 on another site. Think about that — at least 15 million hits, before YouTube was so popular. That’s a lot of Transformers fans, even before Michael Bay’s “re-imagined”* the franchise for his movies. Someone said it was made in 2002, and if so, that makes it even more impressive, because CGI was more difficult back then.
* Hey, I just found a soapbox! I won’t go into the full rant, because I’ve done that before (and I’ve revisited it with video examples of how Transformers could’ve been better), but I will say this — the Transformers universe was very established through hundreds of cartoons and many comic books, and it was a good story with lots of backstory, many great plots, extensive character development — everything you need for a great movie. Instead of using that, Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg (yes, it’s partly his fault, too) made the movie about “a boy and his car”. In doing so, they made Transformers be more about how a teenage boy has to save the world instead of the huge civil war going on between robots that are more intelligent than we are. Instead of making what could’ve been one of the greatest sci-fi stories ever, with characters you admire for their principles and a philosophical side that gets you to thinking — while keeping the great action scenes, we ended up with just the action scenes and lots of explosions. I’m not saying the movies weren’t entertaining at all, but I keep thinking what could’ve been…
It’s the hot part of summer, when ice cream is so refreshing — even more than normal. (I can eat ice cream any time of year, but it really hits the spot during these hotter-than-crazy-mad-hot days.) And so this week’s caption contest features a man with an ice cream cone — well, what’s left of it after a bird has stolen most of it. And some woman is laughing about it.
It’s up to you to write something funny to go along with this picture. Remember it can be from anyone’s perspective, or just general commentary. Or you can make up a backstory, or write what will happen next. It really doesn’t matter, as long as it’s funny.
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The past few days have been so hot we’ve been trying to figure out how to describe it. Wednesday it was 110 here with a heat index over 120, with lots of humidity. I think that goes beyond crazy-mad hot. Our local weathermen are running out of adjectives and phrases for the forecasts.
So we came up with a new heat scale:
* The day-star, it burns
* That ain’t right hot
* Crazy-mad hot
* Unbelievably stupid-hot
* Is this Arizona?
* This heat is inconceivable!
* Warmageddon
* Heatastrophe
* Hot Attack
* So hot that if someone says “Hot enough for ya?” you’re allowed to punch them.
* Did you replace my sweet tea with jalapeno juice?
* It feels like I’m on fire
* I’m on fire
* No really, I’m actually on fire it’s so hot
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