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The caption competition closes
Caption competition 19: The results
Jan 26th 2012, 11:09 by The Economist online
THANK you for all your entries in our latest caption competition. We asked you to provide a pithy caption for a photo accompanying an article in our Business section. It showed Kim Dotcom, the eccentric co-founder of file-sharing site Megaupload, who has been arrested in New Zealand at the request of American officials.
We received a treasure chest of gems this week. Many readers went with a pirate metaphor. New Conservative suggested "A pirate and his booty", a theme several others echoed. (We emphasise that Mr Dotcom denies all wrongdoing.) For some reason, quite a few readers drew attention to Mr Dotcom's physical appearance. "If only I could touch my toes" was suggested by fU4Fra7snW; guest-ijaiojo came up with "Too big to fail?"
Other fine efforts included:
chocolatecity: "I had one simple request: sharks with frikken' laser beams attached to their heads"
JW_uncapped: "The YMCA dance was not one of Kim Dotcom's strongpoints"
Devin423: "She's also my lawyer"
guest-iioaenw: "In hot water"
Both our correspondent in San Francisco and a reader called Vectorly suggested "Dotcom bust", which we've used as the title of the article. The (lightly edited) winner is: "This year's beach sumo contest was surprisingly one-sided". This was suggested by Harry Krishna and appears in the paper tomorrow. We offer our congratulations to the winners and our thanks to everyone who took part.
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My ship has sailed, so I want you all to uploads this to the executive jail server for me, eh?
I'm too late to enter this week but I did come up with:
"C'mon!Share a byte with me."
Relevant: http://imgur.com/fdbQL
http://chris-lowder.blogspot.com/
I am late and disappointed with the selections, nevertheless it should have been:
”Darling, not now I forgot my internet stick.”
Sounds like the caption selection committee had a jolly time at the pub before getting down to business. Frikken laser beams? YMCA dance? ummm.
I'll line up a few pints for the next competition. Cheers.
Elton John was disappointed with his gift with purchase.
The judges involved in this contest have proved that the Britons' sense of humour has been substantially eroded since the days of Monty Python.
Then again, these are economists, not lion tamers.
And here is my Italian Captain
You win!!
It is not so much punchy, as sweaty, flabby and pendulous.
What's the point of asking for entries with NO more than 30 chacters (including blanks, I assumed) if the requirement is then completely ignored? Only three of the seven mentioned above respected it!!!
I told The Economist not to hire retired politicians.
Regards
"Now that I’ve gotten your attention, I’d like to announce that one year from today, I shall make that beautiful yacht... disappear."
"I've made a terrible mistake."
"This year's beach sumo contest was surprisingly one-sided"
A) More than 30 characters.
B) Stereotyping overweight people.
C) There's only 1 "sumo" wrestler.
ooooooooo...
As we subsidise overweight people's healthcare costs and it is avoidable, we get to make fun of them.... but the caption is not really intended that way is my assumption. It is making fun of the fact that the FBI is heavyweight using domestic laws to arrest foreign people in foreign lands.
Best caption competition yet!
It says nothing of the yacht he is pointing to.
Also sounds a little off topic?
Nope.
The topic is "The Results of the Capture Competition"