Outside the Beltway

Caption Contest Winners

Rodney Dill · Monday, May 29, 2006 · 2 comments

The Night at the Opera Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

(AP Photo/Markku Ulander, LEHTIKUVA)

I had to extend the honorable mention section again, as there were many excellent entries.

Winners:

First: John Burgess – We, the Congress of the United States of America, will protect our privileges! If you don’t like it, we’ll eat you.

Second: Anderson – Around the country, thousands of demons protested the Bush Administration’s proposal to build a wall between Hell and the United States.

Third: DaveD – OK, nothing’s perfect, but you have to admit that nuclear energy DID reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

Honorable Mention:

Freakyboy – The pre-airbrushing photos from the Dixie Chicks Time magazine cover photo shoot make the rounds on the internet.

Gollum – Lord of the Rings – – The Musical: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s lovesick tribute to Peter Jackson.

Doug – Levees? What Levee’s? We don’t need no Stinking Levee’s!

radio free fred – “Tell Keith Richards To Come On Out, We Wanna Party.”

radio free fred – “Open Up, We’re Out Of Oil Of Olay!!!”

Hodink – The Immigration Bill awaits a bruising battle in the House of Representatives.

McCain – Radio Free Fred, Charles Austin, Bithead, McGehee, and Spacemonkey rush to enter another photo caption contest.

Venomous Kate – Left-to-right: Janeane Garafalo, Helen Thomas, Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi pose for the cover of the 2007 Women of the Democratic Party calendar.

yetanotherjohn – Democrats held a photo op to introduce which mainstream democratic congress people would be conducting any investigations into impeaching Bush.

McGehee – “Hey, I used to live in that neighborhood!…
(In fact, I think I dated the one in the lower right…)”

Strange, but True Award:

Dave Schuler – And here we were, worried about the decay of European civilization. But now that we’ve seen the winners of this year’s Eurovision contest we can see there’s nothing to worry about.

Rodney’s Bottom of The Barrel

In actuality, quite a few things were left in US lawmaker William Jefferson’s freezer.

“Oh-oh, Dog doo-doo, good thing we no step in it.”

Between Ragnarok and a hard place

The The Monday contest is giving the cold shoulder.

Other Caption Contests

Riding Sun didn’t forget his hat.