h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Here's a new game idea, and I'll start it off.

Pick a random, bizarre stock photo, paste the link in here, and then others have to try and come up with the best caption to go with it. A bit like a caption competition

We come up with ideas for a period of time (until it seems to have run its course or someone comes up with something that can't be beaten) and a winner is chosen by mutual agreement (people post to say which ones they like as we go along, sort of like 'voting' ).

Then, the winner chooses the next one and we start again.

So, to start us off, here's a rather tame one from iStock:
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-23467816-omg.php?st=be6658a

Have fun!

I'll kickstart this off

"Middle-aged Blindness Linked to Popcorn"

Dammit, I know I left my popcorn somewhere round here!

Unfortunately, Maureen's Peril Sensitive Sunglasses suddenly stopped working halfway through the IMAX screening of Human Centipede 2...

You reckon they got to halfway?!

Kimberley realises why her friend wanted to watch Crank in 3D.

geggs beat me to it, but I was going to say

Abigail found to her horror that her new Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses were faulty.

Very good captions, but I reckon Geggs gets it as being the first to get in a reference to the Hitchhiker's

Your turn to chose one Geggs!

Okay, so how do I do this? Do I need to look through the istock site, or other sites, or what?


Geggs

Just find and link to any stock photo

Can be on any site you like

flickr creative commons is really good. A load of photographers share their free photos there.

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-2.0/

you can search for a particular image, or just browse. As long as you just give the link here we'll be fine to look at them.

Okay, I'm picking this one:

http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-10753226-crowd-of-young-people-having-a-new-year-s-party.php?st=826cd52

See what you can do with that.


Geggs

The Invisible Trumpet Blowers Orchestra


(although one at the front looks a lot ruder )

"Pastey's reaction to finishing Pliny"

I've been holding back for a couple of days,but here's my caption:

It was in complete ignorance of the later events that they celebrated the invention of the sentient photo-bombing robot. There were no survivors.


Geggs

"George's funeral took on a different slant when there was a mix up. Rentaparty arrived, instead of the expected sombre pallbearers from the Undertakers."

At last it was 5:00 o'clock on Friday afternoon.

F S

So, who gets to choose the winner?


Geggs

I'd say you Geggs, you chose the photo

Given that it would be astoundingly bad form to pick my own, I'm going to choose Lanza as the winner of that one.


Geggs