Satire: The News in Pictures IX

Part of: O Caption! My Caption!

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

↓ “Tony’s Leather Shop? I wanna talk to someone about a refund on the belt I bought earlier.”


Mark Humphrey/AP

↓ “Get off me, freak! I’m not a horse!”


Getty Images Photo

↓ “I’ve got to sell this house somehow. I’ll paint the brown grass green, the green pool water blue, the dull house yellow like the sun, and I’ll paint the people inside to look like the majority of people in this neighborhood…no wait, not the people. That would be unethical.”

↓ “Bless you.”


Justin Lane/EPA

Child typing: “u broke ur arm when you fell out of a tree? that sux. were having steak for dinner. btw wats a tree?


Wally Santana/AP

↓ “All those in favor of lowering this humongous desk? Right, and all those in favor of raising the chairs?”


AP Photo/Yonhap, Kim Hyun-tai

↓ After a map of the economic stress index hit papers across the nation earlier this week, Wyoming’s Fremont County experienced a surge in population.


AP

↓ “Come on dear, it’ll be fun.”
“I don’t want to go in there. I like my torso!”


AFP/Str

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  • 1 - The Crow

    May 21, 2009 at 6:52 am

    Very funny! Bravo.

  • 2 - Phillip Winn

    May 21, 2009 at 7:27 am

    The economic stress map is great. And I say that not just because I live in Dallas, where the economic stress is nearly identical to what it has been for years: low.

    Okay, maybe that *is* the main reason I find that one funny.

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