CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #87

[Billfred]

...written while watching a bunch of people I don't know blathering on about things I have no interest in. (Isn't the Oscars pre-show wonderful?)

Here's the scores:

MissInformation 87
Gary Dillard 83
EddieMcD 79
T. Hoffman 75
Rich Wong 73
Jay Trzaskos 71
Dlavery 68
Jay H 237 64
Icurtis 62
Al Skierkiewicz 60
Andy Baker 59
Nehalita 58
EricH 57
Wayne Doenges 54
KathieK 52
Bcahn836 47
Dorienne 007 45
Koko Ed 42
Arefin Bari 40
DCA Fan 33
Amanda Morrison 31
Artdutra04 31
EricS-Team180 29
Goober!!! 27
Andrew Blair 24
Ashley Christine 24
JosephM 23
Xzvrw2 23
“Big Mike” 21
Alex Cormier 21
Rich Kressly 20
Kyle Love 19
KenWittlief 18
Mechanicalbrain 18
Zach Purser 16
Conor Ryan 16
1derboy 14
Tim Delles 13
JVN 12
KarenH 12
Jessica Boucher 11
Richardp 11
Bill_Hancoc 11
Kjhobin 11
Pat McCarthy 10
Squirrelrock 10
Greg Needel 9
Dave Scheck 8
Kevin Kolodziej 8
Tiffany34990 8
Fruity Pebbles 7
DanielBCR 7
Sciencenerd 7
Brandy836 6
Elgin Clock 6
Miketwalker 6
RoboMom 6
Skimoose 6
Greencactus3 6
Sciguy125 6
InfernoX14 6
MattD1Drift 6
Boiler 6
Lil' Lavery 5
Adam Richards 5
Lukevanoort 5
Wetzel 5
Killerofkiller 4
Ogre 4
Cyberguy34000 4
Denman 4
Matt Attallah 4
Spears312 4
Beth Sweet 3
GaryV1188 3
Meaubry 3
RogerR 3
Ryan Foley 3
Tytus Gerrish 3
Shyra1353 3
Andrew Rudolph 2
BuddyB309 2
Dan Swando 2
Eria4044 2
Kyle 2
Meredith343MiM 2
Mini-D67 2
Sammy 2
Cody C 2
Eugenia Gabrielov 2
Liz C 2
Pwilczynski 2
Rohan_DHS 2
anna~marie 1
Barry Bonzack 1
Ben Lauer 1
Budda648 1
CarpeDiem 1
Courtneyb1023 1
DjAlamose 1
Dubious elise 1
First degree 1
Joe_P. 1
John Wanninger 1
KyleGilbert45 1
Lisa Perez 1
Mr. A 1
Mrblack298 1
Rees2001 1
Saru29 1
Termite233 1
Wilshire 1


And the picture:

http://www.invisiblerobot.com/robotics/robot_c43e/index/p2199765.html

As always, the deadline is Saturday at midnight Eastern

Go!

[Koko Ed]

http://www.invisiblerobot.com/robotics/robot_c43e/p2199765.jpg
DAVE:This is the last time you photoshop me, Heidi! SEND IN THE LIONS!

[JackN]

And here we observe the FIRSTer in their natural enviroment. Their main Diet is Krispy Kremes and Mountain Dew. There only natural predator is sleep. The whole pack hibernates for six weeks and when they emerge they give birth to one new member. They tend to migrate to chiefdelphi and many of the members pretend to be JVN. In four years they leave. Some join new packs as alpha members. Some start there own packs. Most are afraid of the numbers 71, 111, 67, and 254. That about sums up the FIRSTer.

[KathieK]

FIRST 2007: Didn't I tell you guys they'd sink to the bottom? You can lead a robot to water, but you can't make 'em swim!

[Jay H 237]

Dave (talking to the guy next to him)

"You know, the last time I stared through a window like this my wife made me buy a puppy and bring it home. Don't ever let your wife catch you staring at one like this otherwise it's her job to pick one out and then it's your job to pay for it, feed it and walk it for the rest of it's life."

[Travis Hoffman]

(In my best Transformers voice-over dude voice....)

It is the year 2075. The Era of the Operator Interface is over. IFI CEO JVN has long since switched his company's focus to building beer opening robots for the increasingly lazy world population. For decades, human drive teams have toiled over their joysticks and pushbuttons in an effort to control their machines of magnificence, but no longer. Mind over machine has become the new paradigm. On the FIRST battlefield, humans now focus their newfound telekinetic powers on their mechanical masterpieces. Here we see such a drive team concentrating on their task; however, the guy on the left possesses no such powers. He is just trying to pick his nose without making it too obvious to everyone else around him.

[Goober!!!]

DAVE(talking to guy beside him):Hey is there somthing coming out of my nose??? :D :D :D

[Jeff Rodriguez]

What..have..we...done?

[Andrew Blair]

http://www.invisiblerobot.com/robotics/robot_c43e/p2199765.jpg

The NASA control room after repeated budget cuts...

[Rich Wong]

DaveL: I’m sorry......
Dave’s Friend: I’m so embarrassed.

DaveL: I’m really sorry......
Dave's Friend: You had to say to the guard “I’m Dave Lavery! I don’t need no stinking badges”, now we’re kicked out and have to seat here in the peanut gallery.

DaveL: I did say I’m sorry.....

[Conor Ryan]

Dude With Goggles: Yes! Our Autonomous works!
Dave: Watch it do the back stroke! I should of thought of this water game years ago!

[Ian Curtis]

Inside Dave's Head (which is a place I'd like to go someday, but I'm not entirely sure what I'd find): If only they knew how many nonsequential twenties it took for Team Hammond to get all those Championship wins. :ahh:

[114Klutz]

Help! Trapped in spacecraft factory!

[artdutra04]

Kid in sunglasses: So that is what underwater magic smoke looks like!

[Bill_Hancoc]

"You ever feel like a zoo animal behind all this glass, I do"

[Kevin Kolodziej]

We now take you to a preview of the new FIRST Place attraction, FIRST: The Ride...

Announcer: If you look in front of you, we are now passing by the wax figure gallery. Here you can see each Woodie Flowers Award winner, along with Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers himself.

Passing into the next room...shaking begins...

Announcer: Hold on to your seats! Its an earthquake! The robots will save us!

Dave: Oh look, here come the Vex bots that JVN designed for this part of the attraction. Do they look a bit small to you?

[Wayne Doenges]

Dave: “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?”
Man to Dave’s left: “Yes, I think placing all the robots in the arena at the same time was a bad idea.”
Dave: “No, I’m thinking I could have saved 15% on my car insurance by switching to GEICO (TM) . I wonder if I could insure my other car.”

[EricH]

Dave: I can send a signal to my other cars and they respond, but my robot doesn't. Why did we trust John and his coworkers with this job? Why, why, why?

[meaubry]

(in the best gravelly, grouchy, grumpy old man voice - to the man next to him)
"... and back in the day, we didn't have fun playing with robots - all we did was have fun building model rockets. You whippersnappers have it way too easy! We didn't have none of those "remote controllers" for our model rockets, neither. We had to use cardboard tubes and firecrackers for propulsion. And when the parachutes burned up, we chased em for miles! And if we got tired or lost in the process, we just kept looking and looking, for days even. 'Cause that was all we could do, and we liked it! You young kids don't know how good you have it!
(in the second best gravely, grouchy old man voice - back to Dave)
And we had to walk to school. It was uphill - both ways! And we didn't wear sun glasses inside a building to block the glare - we just shielded our eyes with our hand, or squinted really hard . And we liked it! When we were done, and our head hurt from staring, we just kept it to ourselves ..."

[Taylor]

1) If you look hard into the glass, you can actually see the Ghost of Championships Past.


2) (thought bubble): I wonder if I can pull the "Would-you-like-to-see-the-animation-early" trick again at next year's kickoff...

(answer: Unfortunately, yes.)

[Rich Kressly]

Dave: "Pstttttt. Hey Pete. Ten bucks says the Schmales kid picks his nose."
Pete: "Looks like you beat him to it, Dave."

[Tim Delles]

Dave: Okay so remind me why their are no robots at this competition?
The depressed kids next to him: Because you told them they had to play the game on Mars.

[DjAlamose]

Dave: These Tetras are devious, But not devious enough.... maybe if someone got hit in the head with a poofball the game would be more interesting!

[Lil' Lavery]

Will this be the last picture of Team 116? Find out next week!!

[Zach Purser]

Here we see Dave Lavery giving last minute instructions to his team using his thumb phone. Let's listen in: "What do you mean you're still out in the parking lot playing with Diet Coke and Mentos?!?! Our next match starts in 1 minute!"

[MissInformation]

2007-the game- "Shoot Faster"

Dave (nervously biting his thumb nail): I have a bad feeling about this... I really don't think I should have let Tony convince me that cruise missiles would be okay...

[Al Skierkiewicz]

"You know, while we were considering all the things that robots could do during this competition, eating the balls and spitting colored confetti into the goals wasn't one of them."
"OK, so now what do we do? There are no more balls in the shipping container and I don't even want to think about going into the field with that thing still out there."
"Yeah, I know what you mean. I am thinking about that kickoff last year when the camera locked on to my shirt."

[EddieMcD]

From right to left: "Yep..."
"Yep..."
"Yep..."
"Uh-huh..."

[Billfred]

Apologies on the lateness--between getting back from UCF at 6:00 AM with two more hours of driving to go, plus moving back into Preston, I had to invoke the Billfred Is Working Way Too Much Rule.

First place goes to:

DAVE:This is the last time you photoshop me, Heidi! SEND IN THE LIONS!

Second place goes to:

The NASA control room after repeated budget cuts...

Honorable mentions go to:

1) KathieK
2) Conor Ryan
3) artdutra04
4) Al Skierkiewicz
5) MissInformation
6) Zach Purser
7) Lil' Lavery
8) DjAlamose
9) Rich Kressly
10) Tim Delles
11) EricH
12) Ogre
13) Rich Wong

And the burn award...

(In my best Transformers voice-over dude voice....)

It is the year 2075. The Era of the Operator Interface is over. IFI CEO JVN has long since switched his company's focus to building beer opening robots for the increasingly lazy world population. For decades, human drive teams have toiled over their joysticks and pushbuttons in an effort to control their machines of magnificence, but no longer. Mind over machine has become the new paradigm. On the FIRST battlefield, humans now focus their newfound telekinetic powers on their mechanical masterpieces. Here we see such a drive team concentrating on their task; however, the guy on the left possesses no such powers. He is just trying to pick his nose without making it too obvious to everyone else around him.

Which means the scores are:

MissInformation 89
Gary Dillard 83
EddieMcD 80
T. Hoffman 78
Rich Wong 75
Jay Trzaskos 71
Dlavery 68
Jay H 237 65
Icurtis 63
Al Skierkiewicz 62
Andy Baker 59
EricH 59
Nehalita 58
Wayne Doenges 55
KathieK 54
Koko Ed 52
Bcahn836 47
Dorienne 007 45
Arefin Bari 40
Artdutra04 33
DCA Fan 33
Amanda Morrison 31
Andrew Blair 29
EricS-Team180 29
Goober!!! 28
Ashley Christine 24
JosephM 23
Xzvrw2 23
Rich Kressly 22
“Big Mike” 21
Alex Cormier 21
Kyle Love 19
Zach Purser 18
KenWittlief 18
Conor Ryan 18
Mechanicalbrain 18
Tim Delles 15
1derboy 15
JVN 12
KarenH 12
Bill_Hancoc 12
Jessica Boucher 11
Richardp 11
Kjhobin 11
Pat McCarthy 10
Squirrelrock 10
Kevin Kolodziej 9
Greg Needel 9
Dave Scheck 8
Tiffany34990 8
Fruity Pebbles 7
Lil' Lavery 7
DanielBCR 7
Sciencenerd 7
Boiler 7
Brandy836 6
Elgin Clock 6
Miketwalker 6
Ogre 6
RoboMom 6
Skimoose 6
Greencactus3 6
Sciguy125 6
InfernoX14 6
MattD1Drift 6
Adam Richards 5
Lukevanoort 5
Wetzel 5
Killerofkiller 4
Cyberguy34000 4
Denman 4
Meaubry 4
Matt Attallah 4
Spears312 4
Beth Sweet 3
DjAlamose 3
GaryV1188 3
RogerR 3
Ryan Foley 3
Tytus Gerrish 3
Shyra1353 3
Andrew Rudolph 2
BuddyB309 2
Dan Swando 2
Eria4044 2
Kyle 2
Meredith343MiM 2
Mini-D67 2
Sammy 2
Cody C 2
Eugenia Gabrielov 2
Liz C 2
Pwilczynski 2
Rohan_DHS 2
114Klutz 1
anna~marie 1
Barry Bonzack 1
Ben Lauer 1
Budda648 1
CarpeDiem 1
Courtneyb1023 1
Dubious elise 1
First degree 1
Joe_P. 1
John Wanninger 1
KyleGilbert45 1
Lisa Perez 1
Mr. A 1
Mrblack298 1
Rees2001 1
Saru29 1
Termite233 1
Wilshire 1


Onward!

[Cody Carey]

Can't a guy find a decent place to be a curmudgeon around here?