I'd like to congratulate everyone for making it to this most special day: the 50-year anniversary of the previous Caption Contest starting! I know, I know. It's been a surprisingly busy summer and something had to give, and as fun as it is hanging out here it was also the best of bad options. On the other hand, I was able over the summer to finish 431st out of the 683 competitors at the Pinburgh pinball championship and isn't that something? Something less, if you know it was part of a fifteen-way tie for 431st.
I know it's traditional for long-open caption contests to end with a declaration that everyone's a winner. And while it's true that everyone participating in these is a winner, in actual practice, I want to be a little more specific. So while I thank everyone who contributed to the last, I want to single out for special attention and approval:
Because Captain Archer just can not get respect from some folks:
Because there's a fine line between Logic and Olive Burgers:
Because I know I'm missed when I accidentally go missing for three years:
Because some of us have the sense to come in from the Space Weather:
Because I was literally just thinking of that Dexter's Laboratory where they went to the Totally Not Star Trek Convention:
Because it was my wedding anniversary that week and we were going to a new-to-me amusement park, okay, a collaborative effort:
Because I will take any chance to call out my Amazing Karnak joke about what you get if you don't stop rubbing your Bulba:
Because playing games is part of human nature:
And now my set of screen captures from the next episode, Rogue Planet. This is best known as the episode where everybody spends the week dressing up like rogue high-concept New Wave bands of the 80s, and then is so embarrassed they turn the lights off. I don't know why; I think some of them could belt out a great cover of Video Killed The Radio Star.
Thanks to everyone participating in these, and I make you this promise: I'll set the next contest up no later than the week of my birthday! No, I won't tell you when my birthday is. Good luck!
I know it's traditional for long-open caption contests to end with a declaration that everyone's a winner. And while it's true that everyone participating in these is a winner, in actual practice, I want to be a little more specific. So while I thank everyone who contributed to the last, I want to single out for special attention and approval:
Because Captain Archer just can not get respect from some folks:
Because there's a fine line between Logic and Olive Burgers:
Because I know I'm missed when I accidentally go missing for three years:
Because some of us have the sense to come in from the Space Weather:
Because I was literally just thinking of that Dexter's Laboratory where they went to the Totally Not Star Trek Convention:
Because it was my wedding anniversary that week and we were going to a new-to-me amusement park, okay, a collaborative effort:
Because I will take any chance to call out my Amazing Karnak joke about what you get if you don't stop rubbing your Bulba:
Because playing games is part of human nature:
And now my set of screen captures from the next episode, Rogue Planet. This is best known as the episode where everybody spends the week dressing up like rogue high-concept New Wave bands of the 80s, and then is so embarrassed they turn the lights off. I don't know why; I think some of them could belt out a great cover of Video Killed The Radio Star.
Thanks to everyone participating in these, and I make you this promise: I'll set the next contest up no later than the week of my birthday! No, I won't tell you when my birthday is. Good luck!
