Outside the Beltway

Caption Contest Winners

Rodney Dill · Thursday, February 16, 2006 · 3 comments

The ACME Rocketpack Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

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First: Maggie – Michelle Kwan, BURNOUT or simple injury? The questions linger.

Second: Moe Lane – When you have a degree in English, you take what they offer you.

Third: Olrnf – After Sunday’s hunting accident, Vice President Cheney decided to take up a safer pastime.

Honorable Mention:

Eric J. – Maybe the Iranian nuclear program isn’t as advanced as we’ve been led to believe.

LJD – Although promising to smash previous records, the Russian speed skater was disqualified after testing positive for kerosene.

Bithead – I TOLD you you put too much coal into the robot!

FreakyBoy – Dante’s “Mohammed on Ice” is the latest Western spectacle to enrage the Arab street.

Hermoine – “…and it is a renewable fuel coming from the fanny tail pipe. People over 55 must not do this. You know how we feel about fossil fuels.”

Letters From the Edge Award

T. Harris –
Dear Dad,
Thanks for including the pic with your letter. I’d forgotten how much fun it was to roller blade in Hell. I know you’re very busy, being the Prince of Darkness and all, but it warms my heart to know that you’re thinking of me. See ya soon.

Love, Hillary

Rodney’s Bottom of The Barrel

Dubya: “And in the future the preferred personal mode of transportion will cause no one any undue concern as it does not rely on fossil fuels.”
Helen Thomas: “Well I see flames, just what does it run on.”
Dubya: “Copies of the Koran.”

Wile E. Coyote attempts another ill-fated shot at catching the Roadrunner

Bush had waited patiently for the Deus Ex Machina resolution to the Iraq War.

Apolo Anton Ohno experienced a flame out at an inopportune time.

How the WMD’s were really smuggled out of Iraq.

The The Thursday contest has already loosed the dogs of war.