Caption Contest Winners
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Rodney Dill | Monday, August 4, 2008 |
The Go Fast, Turn Left Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over.
REUTERS/Sam VarnHagen-Ford Motor Co/Handout (UNITED STATES)
✰ THE WINNERS ✰
First: Cowboy Blob - Sometimes, the race card is called for.
Second: Triumph - Welcome to the world of Obama’s transportation policy.
Third: William d’Inger - The solar powered Canadian model is no match for the flatulence powered Goremobile.
HONORABLE MENTION
John425 - It was only AFTER they invented bumpers, that bumper car rides became popular.
Maggie Mama - Thanks to President Obama the “Beltway” is rarely congested these days.
elliot - Marge, would you look at that American driver speeding like that. He must be going 15 mph eh?
ℛODNEY’S BOTTOM OF THE BARREL
I’m putting you in the wall, Gordon.
Shitty Shitty Bang Bang
The 
Monday Contest is having an Obamalanche
About the Author: Rodney has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, back from when people knew what Hollerith cards were, and actually used the toggle switches on the front of computers. He is an IT Manager in the Motor City and working within the Automotive Industry. He has been blogging at OTB since November 2004.
Thanks for the HM - Elliot
Woo hoo, third. Is it permissible to gloat? OK, so third rhymes with turd and I hate to do worse than first, but at least I got on the board.
Speaking of punch cards and toggle switches, Rodney, did you ever have to toggle in the RIM loader on a PDP-8I? If I remember correctly, it went ...
7756 LoadAddr
6032 Deposit
6031 Deposit
5357 Deposit
etc.
One of my old high school classmates was on the Computer Science faculty in Wisconsin although I don't know the specific campus. His name was Meyer or Meyers. Actually, I knew his wife Barbara from junior high school.
Never touched a PDP-8, but I did have to toggle in patches and data into a 32K Modcomp computer. They still had 'core' memory so they retained memory even when switched them off. Which doesn't sound so impressive anymore with the advent of flash drives.
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