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It's time to play captions!
There's a big news story going around that the Air Force fucked up bigtime and accidentally flew 6 nuclear-warhead-tipped missiles across the US. Oopsies. Here're a few links from varied sources, if this is news to you:
Okay, now we've got all that depressing stuff out of the way, let's play!
I came across this gem in an AP News bulletin about the story:
This picture is priceless. I saw it and immediately came up with a bunch of witty captions. Here're a few:
"As you can see on this chart here, WE FUCKED UP."
"Let me introduce you to my friend, smoky the NUCLEAR WARHEAD, to explain more about what happened..."
"And I said, 'Nuclear?? I hardly know 'er!' Thanks, folks, I'll be here all night."
and one from robinzing:
"And I was like KARATE! And Fred was like, 'PEW PEW'"
See, it's fun for the whole family! How would you caption this story? Here're some guidelines:
Have at it!
There's a big news story going around that the Air Force fucked up bigtime and accidentally flew 6 nuclear-warhead-tipped missiles across the US. Oopsies. Here're a few links from varied sources, if this is news to you:
- US admits errors in nuclear flight [Al-Jazeera English]
- Air Force fires commanders over nuclear mix-up [Reuters Canada]
- US military explains incident of mishandling nuclear warheads [Xinhua, China]
- [tons more on Google News]
Okay, now we've got all that depressing stuff out of the way, let's play!
I came across this gem in an AP News bulletin about the story:
This picture is priceless. I saw it and immediately came up with a bunch of witty captions. Here're a few:
"As you can see on this chart here, WE FUCKED UP."
"Let me introduce you to my friend, smoky the NUCLEAR WARHEAD, to explain more about what happened..."
"And I said, 'Nuclear?? I hardly know 'er!' Thanks, folks, I'll be here all night."
and one from robinzing:
"And I was like KARATE! And Fred was like, 'PEW PEW'"
See, it's fun for the whole family! How would you caption this story? Here're some guidelines:
- Try to come up with something funny or bizarre to make light of an otherwise depressing news story.
- Bonus points for taking the picture out of context.
- Your caption definitely need not be a quote like mine.
- One point per entry; and the top million captions win.
Have at it!