Friday Caption Contest: Family Cycling Edition
Welcome to Friday! This week we’ve a lovely retro photo for you to caption, but before we get to that, there’s the small matter of last week’s winner.
There was some pretty stiff competition for our prize, and Tom came pretty close to winning. But the prospect of seeing him in one of those bib-shorts gimp suits was enough to put anyone off, or at least set my therapy back by years. So in the end our panel of judges decided that Rhode Long (is that your *ahem* “stage” name?) was the clear winner with,
“Lycra clad louts on the pavement again.“
We’ll be sending you your prize just as soon as the previous owner has taken it off. Unfortunately we will be unable to clean the item first, but I’m sure you won’t mind. Runners up will be receiving some special consolation prizes courtesy of our friends at the Etsy Asylum Craft Group.
They’ve been recycling old inner-tubes:
Experimenting with leather:
The mind boggles at the things people find to do.
So let’s return to a more sensible theme, with this week’s photo for you to caption. It’s from the 1930s, when live was a whole lot more wholesome, and is brought to you via Modern Mechanix:
This is typical of the just-the-facts style of reporting. The bigger questions to answer are, what are these people saying or thinking? Why is the daughter looking so terrified? What is the mother making? And what have they been feeding their son?
Add speech bubbles, thought balloons, captions, whatever, and see if you can uncover the truth behind this picture.
The best entry will win a fabulous prize, which is particularly pertinent in the week that we learn that Syria ALSO has weapons of mass destruction:
Sadly, this suit is only available in lead, so you’re going to have to spend a lot more money on carbon fibre to keep your bike+rider package light.
Good luck!
“Rhode Long” is of course a contributor to the Bristol Traffic site. What you have taken for “humour” is in fact Rhode’s opinion. Every pedestrian on the pavement in lycra is taking up a parking space. The picture even implies they are running, which we know Endangers Pedestrians.
Regarding captions, here is one for the lead suit entry:
“Yes, but what does it do about zombies?”
Regarding the lead suit, two Daily Mail headlines:
(Week One)”For God’s Sake Think of Britain’s Children! If It Saves One Life It’s Worth It!”
(Week 2) “Lead-Suited Terror Cyclists Go Round Frightening Britain’s Children.”
“For Gawd’s sake hurry up sewing the lycra, Ma.”
[...] I fear that I may have given you too much to look at last week. So you all got distracted, and seemed to provide captions for whichever photo took your choice. [...]