Satire: The News in Pictures III

Part of: O Caption! My Caption!

Welcome to "O Caption! My Caption!" Blogcritics' examination of news, sports, and politics by utilizing the most efficient and time-saving method: looking at pretty pictures and deducing what happened based on the pixels.

↓ Contractors from around the world gathered for their first annual “Cut So Many Corners the Building Will Be Round” Construction Competition. The team representing workers for the United States government is the favored to win.

Ajit Solanki/Associated Press


↓ German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber flicked a boogie at cameramen during a break in testimony at the Oliphant Commission in Ottawa.

Blair Gable/Reuters


↓ For cryin’ out loud, I’m right here! I know I don’t dress up and run around anymore, but I’m middle-aged!

Joshua Trujillo/seattlepi.com


↓ Who just called me a sexy bitch?

Alexander F. Yuan/Associated Press

↓ In the end, it was a very bad day.

↓ Uh, dude. I don’t think the gypsy woman you insulted in the forest just a moment ago was kidding.

David Mdzinarishvilis/Reuters

↓ A facilitator with self-help group, “Facing Down Inadequacy” took four group members on a field trip.

Orlando Barria/European Pressphoto Agency

↓ I mean it you hooligans! I will turn this thing around and then no one will get ice cream!

Bob Martin/Red Bull Air Race via Associated Press

↓ Who knew smoke was sharp.

Karim Sahib/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

↓ Strange brew.

Doug Mills/The New York Times

Britain’s Got Talent angelic-voiced favorite, Susan Boyle, who was laughed at when she first walked on stage, gives two thumbs up to cameramen as she mouths, “What now bitches!”

Andrew Milligan/Associated Press

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  • 1 - Joanne Huspek

    Apr 21, 2009 at 2:05 pm

    :-) Good ones.

  • 2 - Christopher Rose

    Apr 21, 2009 at 2:36 pm

    Nicely done, Diana. A great laugh to word ratio too!

  • 3 - Christopher Rose

    Apr 21, 2009 at 2:41 pm

    Oh, on second look, I thought Boogie was a dance?

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