Friday , March 29 2024
Budgets, breaking up, and pipe dreams.

Satire: The News in Pictures IV

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.

↓ “The President understands that a number of the issues he deals with in some way, shape, or form are…oh no, will you look at that, and my mani-pedi isn’t until tomorrow.”

AP Photo/Ron Edmonds

↓ “Crap. Where did I park?”

AFP/File/Samuel Kubani

↓ (Man typing) “O-h-,-h-e-l-l-n-o-!”

REUTERS/Chip East

↓ “Seriously Stan, this is the last time I’m going to be the Designated Hopper.”

AFP/DPA/File/Markus Fahrer

↓ Look at all those household budgets.

AFP/William West

↓ “You’re breaking up with me?”

REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

↓ A man demonstrates how precarious pipe dreams can be.

AFP/File/David Furst

↓ “You’ve ridden through my prize gardenias for the last time. You’ll never get it back now, you little whippersnapper!”

Jason Wang for The New York Times

↓ Never underestimate the Ninja skills of simple womenfolk whose cooking skills have been insulted.

Fernando Salazar/Eagle file photo

↓ Workers struggled through the night to keep up with the deluge of more than 4,000 short-circuited icemakers, dumping the excess into drainage systems that made its way into the Neva River in front of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. One worker was overheard to ask, “What do we need icemakers for, anyway? This is Russia, for crying out loud!”

Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters

↓ “Where’s the beach?”

AP Photo/Heribert Proepper

↓ “I have discovered fire! And…this boat-looking thing! And these rad sunglasses. Could someone throw me some cookies? I’m a little peaked after all this discovering.”

Jody Amiet/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

↓ “Did mom leave the iron on?”

Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press

About Diana Hartman

Diana is a USMC (ret.) spouse, mother of three and a Wichita, Kansas native. She is back in the United States after 10 years in Germany. She is a contributing author to Holiday Writes. She hates liver & motivational speakers. She loves science & naps.

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