Satire: The News in Pictures XXIV

Part of: O Caption! My Caption!

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


“How do you like my scary face? It’s good, right?”
“Yes, it’s great. Now hold still, you have something between your teeth.”
(AP Photo/Madame Tussaud)


“Yea! I’m first this time! No more ‘has to eat rotten eggs’ for me!”
(Yonhap/AFP/Getty Images)


Now that I know they’re packed by bare hands with dirty fingernails, no more of those for me!
(John Vizcaino/Reuters)


“Can you believe these phony art types? This ribbon is an award for that
piece of paper I spilled yellow paint on when the new kid bumped my elbow!”

“Oh, I know it. I just sold that painting of ‘clouds’ for $4,000!”
(George Skene/Orlando Sentinel)


“I’ll tell you what; I’m even more disturbed that the walls
of this parking garage appear to have been made of paper mâché.”
(Tom Gilbert/Tulsa World)


“So yea, just 6,000 more of these and we’ll have this place cleaned up in no time. Well, until they start pooping, that is.”
(Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images)


“What is that you’re recording me with? Is that a rectal thermometer?!”
(AP Photo)


“There you go. That makes two of us!”
(AP Photo/Natalia Kolesnikova, Pool)


"Woo! I have outstanding fashion sense, but I clearly don’t
understand the oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle! Woohoo!”
(Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)


“Heh, heh. This cheeky monkey here thinks a mile is longer than a kilometer!”
(Stefan Wermuth)


“Thank you all for coming. How are you enjoying the world’s longest couch?”
(AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)


“Bad news, Aunt Louise. It looks like you have the syphilis.”
(Sam Wolfe)

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Diana Hartman is a (ret.) USMC spouse, mother of three in college and a Wichita, Kansas native. She is a contributing writer to Holiday Writes and can be found on Twitter.

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  • 1 - Jet Gardner

    May 04, 2010 at 11:04 am

    Jet subitted this great satire to digg and wrote: Explore the great BlogCritic's feature "O Caption! My Caption" as Diana Hartmen-one of BC's best- delivers a delightful satire and some "Bad news, Aunt Louise. It looks like you have the syphilis."

  • 2 - diana hartman

    May 04, 2010 at 11:42 am

    Thanks Jet!

  • 3 - Daniel Speir

    May 04, 2010 at 3:31 pm

    Haha, this is great stuff.

    Thanks for the laugh!

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