Warning : May contain more than your daily recommended allowance of randomness
Here in Arkansas, it’s been over 100 degrees every day, and it was for much of June, too (which is not normal and ain’t right). In case you’re wondering why, here’s a picture that was taken today.
Apparently the Earth is about 12 feet from the Sun now. That must explain why it’s crazy-mad hot now.
For the next caption contest, I want to use a picture from a recent post. (Hope that’s okay, because I’m doing it anyway!) We recently talked about creating our own space laser inator, and one of the pictures showed a purple laser burning a house. I have no actual context for this picture, but that matters not. You get to make up the context. (For those of you new here, you can write a story or joke to go with the picture. The only rules are make it funny and keep it clean.)
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I’m finally getting the caption contest restarted. Having a newborn around the house can wreck havoc on your schedule. 🙂
For those of you who are new subscribers, welcome, and you are welcome to participate in the caption contest. (We also welcome the first-time guests.) All you have to do is write something funny about the picture. It’s that simple. The only rule is to keep it clean.
This week’s photo features some type of protest, or so it appears — it can be any context you want to think up. One of the guys is offering a peace flower to a policeman in full riot gear. You can write from anyone’s perspective, even as an outsider or as yourself. And if you don’t subscribe to the comments already, it’s good to subscribe to them at least on the caption contests, because that’s when they get really fun.
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What would you do first if you won the mega jackpot in the lottery? 300 Danish people were recently told they had won between 1 billion and 280 billion crowns ($49.7 billion), but it turns out they had won only between $35 to $70. It took an hour and a half to find and correct the mistake. How would you like to be the lottery director who gets to inform these people of the mistake?
Three hundred Danes believed a dream lifestyle of champagne and caviar awaited them this week after they were announced billionaire lottery winners — until they discovered it was a mistake. …
“Three hundred of our lottery players who won the lottery, the Keno, received a message saying they had won a sum in the billions. And they never won that amount … We are of course very sorry. We have now written to them to inform them of the sum that they really won,” Roersig said. …
Roersig said some of the gamers “were disappointed, others were furious and I can fully understand that, but most of them took it well.”
I have a feeling that after all the excitement and jubilation, the words “very sorry” just aren’t much consolation. I wouldn’t be surprised if there will be some lawsuits in this scenario. I figure some of the “winners” already quit their job and starting buying expensive stuff. The lottery director said he’s considering increasing their winnings to help compensate for their disappointment. I’m curious how much that would be.
I wonder if any of the “winners” sent an e-mail to their boss saying something along the lines of “take this job and shove it”. If you know the song by that title, are you singing it yet? It’s one of those that can get stuck in your head. If you aren’t familiar with it, it was a #1 hit in 1978, written by David Allan Coe and covered by Johnny Paycheck.
Anyway, I also wonder how many of those people later sent an e-mail to their boss saying “I’ve always appreciated your ability to take a joke” or “My computer got a virus and sent these crazy e-mails to everyone”. 🙂
If you aren’t familiar with that song or haven’t heard it in a while, it’s (of course) all over the YouTube. But here’s one version I remember seeing from the Dukes of Hazzard, where Johnny Paycheck got caught in one of Boss Hogg’s infamous celebrity speed traps and thus had to sing at The Boar’s Nest. Classic stuff here…
Boss’ reactions to the main hook are awesome. That’s one of the best TV shows of all time.
I wonder how many people have written about the lottery and the Dukes of Hazzard at the same time… 🙂
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