OTB Caption Contest
Time for the Thursday OTB Caption ContestTM
Time for the Thursday OTB Caption ContestTM
Winners will be announced Monday PM
Time for the Thursday OTB Caption ContestTM
Time for the Thursday OTB Caption ContestTM
Winners will be announced Monday PM
You really can see Russia from here.
Ok, now this is what Orbital Skydiving would have looked like if they had actually filmed it for Star Trek Generations.
Whatch out for that first step, it’s a doozy.
Felix Baumgartner does his always-popular impression of Obama poll ratings.
Baumgartner’s favorite cartoon character? Wile E. Coyote.
“Hi Mr Felix! I hope you don’t mind me stowing away on your nifty balloon! I’m from Jehovah’s Witnesses.”
Don’t land in Arizona, don’t land in Arizona, don’t land in Arizona….
“That’s one LARGE step for man…..”
Turns out, Red Bull doesn’t give you wings.
Lance Armstrong, this is your career on drugs. Any questions?
Next week… Worlds longest bunjee jump…
“Wait! I forgot to grab my keeeeeeyyyyyysssssss…..”
Burgess ftw.
From ground station: “Sorry, Felix, you should have thought of that before takeoff.”
“Oh, crap, I left the iron plugged in.”
“That’s one small step for mankind, and one giant leap for a man.”
What’s going to happen the next time Doug Mataconis tells me to get off his lawn.
“I must go–my planet needs me.”
Felix Baumgartner tries an unorthodox method for his search for America’s debt ceiling.
“I wanna glide down over Mulholland
I wanna write her name in the sky
I wanna free fall out into nothin’
Gonna leave this world for awhile
And I’m free, I’m free fallin'”
Look out for the biggest cannonball you ever saw!
american airlines introduces the new “No frills” fare…”.Ok, passengers get ready to disembark for Kalamazoo in 4….3…2…1….GO!!!! Next stop, Grand Rapids…..
“What we have here ladies and gentlemen, is a short teaser of the Felix Baumgartner record breaking skydive. We as a civilization should not only revel in the awe-inspiring courage of Felix, but, also, the massive technological leaps that have allowed us to watch a human being travel faster than the speed of light.”
In a metaphor for politics, it takes a lot of time, money and people to lift a man to stratospheric heights but only one tiny misstep to send him plummeting back to earth.
@Mr. Replica: Hmmm…. that would indeed be quite a technological leap.
Just when he thought he was out, gravity pulls Felix back in
“Hello, cruel world.”
GeronimooooooooooooooooOhNo!
@rodney dill:
I’ve been hungover for the better part of today. I regret nothing!
If I fall faster than the speed of sound, will I be able to hear political commercials? No? Lets do this!
“Make it so.”
“Nice move, Felix, but, uh, you know the London Olympics were over months ago, right?”
“I’m coming Elizabeth!”
You didn’t jump that.
As the lowest ranking person on the International Space Station, Steve was denied a place in the escape pod.
“I’m jumping 128,000 feet and I bet the lead item on the news tonight will be about Honey Boo Boo.”
Felix Baumgartner hoped to travel faster than the Speed Of Light and wind up in a future where MSNBC didn’t totally suck.
“Gotta hit 88, gotta hit 88, gotta hit 88…”
“I hope I get back in time because I’ve got a great idea for the OTB Caption Contest.”
Oh yes, Threepio, there will be an escape for the Princess this time…
“I’m feeling very still, and I think my spaceship knows which way to go.”
“You don’t have a spaceship, Felix.”
“What?! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU–“
Faster than scrolling through all the comments on an OTB Caption Contest entry…
A journey of 24.2 miles begins (and ends) with a single step.
“FELIX FALL BREAKS FACEBOOK RECORD”
In the most audacious act of political protest ever, Felix Baumgartner demonstrates the future of the European Union.
At first, Felix Baumgartner dismissed the sense of Déjà vu he was feeling as the ill effects of the high altitude. Then it hit him: he was stuck in a quantum loop.
“Beam me down! BEAM ME DOWN!”
At first, Felix Baumgartner dismissed the sense of Déjà vu he was feeling as the ill effects of the high altitude. Then it hit him: he must be stuck in Thursday’s OTB quantum loop caption contest™.
Trapped in a quantum loop, Felix Baumgartner had an eternity to regret his failure to heed a warning to reschedule the jump, while physicists at CERN powered up the LHC.
He did fall faster than light, but not as fast as Obama in the polls.
@Robert W. Armijo: Damned Groundhog’s Day
Damn that Home Depot salesman; he told me this was an “extendable ladder.”.
There’s no toilet in this tin can? Well I gotta go, see ya.
Hey Beavis, see what happens if you step off that ladder….heheheheheheh yeah yeah.
We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth
Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies
And the cool, green hills of Earth.
-Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth
@Mr. Replica:
A pretty reasonable caption for this contest as well.
…and actually FTL makes the original caption a little funnier than FTS anyway.
Nine point eight meters per second per second… not just a good idea, its the law.
“No, no. You go right ahead. I’ll stay here and run the video camera.”
Felix Baumgartner was never quite certain if he broke the sound barrier, or if he just passed gas from the breakfast burrito, he ate earlier in the day.
Hold my beer and watch this.
And so I had to jump back to earth, again.
My skydiving knob goes to 11.
Wave at the Byrds as you pass 42,000 feet.
Someone on the Internet is wrong and I have to fix it!
If you broke the speed of sound in the vacuum of space, how would you know?
It’s true, Earth does suck.
I’m going to Disneywooooooooorrrrrrrrllllllllll….
If you can’t think of at least three David Bowie references, you aren’t trying.
Well, to be honest I wasn’t sure, but just then David Lee Roth said, “might as well jump.”
But I don’t want to land in New York City, don’t want to land in Mexico, don’t want to land on no Three Mile Island, don’t want to see my skin aglow, don’t want to land in Comanche Sky Park or in Nashville, Tennessee, don’t want to land in no San Juan airport or the Yukon territory, don’t want to land no San Diego, don’t want to land in no Buzzards Bay, don’t want to land on no Ayatollah, I got nothing more to say.
Rasmussen adds graphics to Obama’s post debate tracking poll: Record breaking free-fall.
Rip Cord? It was right here on my left…