CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #205

[Billfred]

Only four more contests left for this year!

Here are the scores:

EddieMcD 131
Travis Hoffman 130
JaneYoung 126
GaryVoshol 123
boiler 118
KathieK 111
Wayne Doenges 109
kramarczyk 88
EricH 88
Don Rotolo 88
Al Skierkiewicz 85
EricS-Team180 81
Rich Wong 70
skimoose 53
BlondeNerd 33
rocketperson44 32
lukevanoort 30
Greg Needel 30
Barry Bonzack 28
Rick TYler 25
raymaniac 21
dlavery 20
joshsmithers 19
Andy Baker 18
InfernoX14 18
Alan8or 16
cooker52 15
Diriye 14
Jay H 237 14
Tottanka 12
Schnabel 11
Libby K 10
MissInformation 10
3dude_2231 10
Pavan 10
Cynette 9
KarenH 8
Hiteak 8
Alex Cormier 8
Nuttyman54 8
Danielle H 8
Richard 7
Koko Ed 7
wpdrummer 7
Alexa Stott 6
Kristian Calhoun 6
Rosiebotboss 6
Michelle Celio 6
basicxman 6
zinefer 6
Tim Delles 5
Jeff Rodriguez 5
taylort 5
Dave Scheck 4
Joe Matt 4
Lil' Lavery 4
"Big Mike" 4
Rich Kressly 4
Bcahn836 4
SSMike 4
Derek Smith 3
Otaku 3
Protronie 3
artdutra04 3
BandChick 3
Bharat Nain 3
Dorienne 3
Elgin Clock 3
robotcanuck1676 3
Zyik 3
lilstogi11 3
11Mort11 2
Beth Sweet 2
ChrisH 2
dhoizner 2
iCurtis 2
KTorak 2
Peter Matteson 2
ShaneP 2
sishu7 2
Spiffizzle 2
Tetraman 2
vhcook 2
1902_Battery_SGT 2
Jeremiah Johnson 2
Karibou 2
lingomaniac88 2
Matt Attallah 2
Water Bandit23 2
114ManualLabor 1
65_Xero_Huskie 1
andrew348 1
bduddy 1
blakcheez 1
blaxbb 1
Carol 1
cobrawanabe1699 1
Conor Ryan 1
crafty 1
Goober!!! 1
Herodotus 1
Jack K. 1
JBotAlan 1
Jessica Boucher 1
jmb226 1
JMB226 1
KelliV 1
Littleswimmer14 1
SlimBoJones 1
Steve W 1
whlspacedude 1
acdcfan259 1


And the picture:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/25912
(Happy early birthday, Baker!)

As always, the deadline is theoretically Saturday at midnight EDT.

Go!

[EricH]

Andy Baker: "That'll be $50 for the autograph and $10 for the omniwheels..."

[Taylor]

Customer: I don't care about the wheels, how much for a balloon?

[Kyle Love]

Andy: "I bet when Kyle sees this, he'll think I'm Mary at first."

no offense to Mary. :p

[Wayne Doenges]

Andy: "People keep buying our drink coasters (see bottle) and putting them on there robots. Maybe there is a market there."

[GaryVoshol]

Andy, paging through next year's regional list: "Lessee, where can I send Mark next year while I'm off to New Zeeland? He is full-time now, so it's got to be a little more fair than GLR while I was at Hawaii."

[JaneYoung]

A Tale

In his own little world of success, AndyMark - Andy decided to take inspiration from the stand-alone water bottle and count to infinity. He got to one and a haze of confusion settled over his notes. He shook his head to clear the haze, took a swig of water, belched, and began again. He got to one.

Andy: hm, I'm not doing this right - infinity can not be that hard to attain. I'm Andy Baker, I could do this twice if I wanted to.

As the day wore on, the competition venue closed around him, orders for the AM products were placed, everyone said good night, and Andy sat there with his muse - the stand-alone water bottle, his notepad and pen, never clearing - one -.

Andy: Well, this is going to have to wait until IRI. Surely, some of the egos that come to play know how to count to infinity. Maybe beyond. Hey, they may even have a clicker. Nah - but I could make an AndyMark Infinity Clicker. Oh, I have to tell Mark about this... and the wheels started turning.

As Andy left the darkened hallway - his muse and inspiration, the stand-alone bottle of water, was tossed into the trash joining an infinite number of others that had been bagged and carried to the dumpster.

[DonRotolo]

OK, lessee here.... Um, divide by 7... carry the 1... square root over Pi...add in the three cents I found... Allright! I can buy another water bottle!

Andy in the early days...

[KathieK]

Some people set up tables at events and sell baked goods as a fundraiser.
Nerds sell mecanum wheels. <<sigh>>

[Travis Hoffman]

Andy mulls over the latest IRI team list with a perplexed look on his face....

Andy: This team just did an incredibly brave thing. What they should have done was stay at home! They don't own this game - the Thunderchickens do! Their ego is writing checks their robot can't cash. They've been busted, lost every qualification match at a regional three times, and received red cards twice, by me, with a history of high speed collisions with five hurdling robots, and one founder's brother's daughter!

Me, out of frame, randomly visiting for no reason: Libby Kamen?

Andy: And you, Hoffman. Your team is lucky to be here!

Me: Thank you, sir. Happy belated birthday, sir. May I get you another bottle of water sir?

Andy: And let's not beat around the bush, Hoffman. Your schtick ain't the best around. You need to be doing it better, and funnier than the other guy. Now what is it with you?

Me: Just want to serve my public, be the best caption writer on Chief Delphi, sir.

Andy: Don't screw around with me Hoffman. You're a heck of an instinctive writer. Maybe too good. I'd like to bust your butt but I can't. I got another problem here. I gotta send somebody from this backup list to Indianapolis. I gotta do something here, I still can believe it. I gotta give them their dream shot! I'm gonna send them up against the best. This team....is going to IRI. For two days, they will be competing against the best robotics teams in the world. They were number two, the Poofs were number one. The Poofs lost it - pulled out of the event. Now this team is number one. But they should remember one thing: if they screw up, just this much, they'll be building a robot frame out of rubber dog [puke] from Hong Kong!

[Karibou]

Andy: "Ok, I have orders for everything on the table...everything except for our new line of water bottle products."

[Travis Hoffman]

Updated Entry:

"Miss Daisy had one too many "Buds" to drink that day...."

[Lil' Lavery]

I still can't believe these floral arrangements are outselling me...

[Rich Kressly]

"Mi-kan-umm .... uhhhhhhh... Ma-cun-im ... grrr .... Mech-in .... ackkkkkk!!! Hey Mark, I ran out of paper. We're just gonna call them 'Way-Cooler-Omnis-on-a-Slanty-Angle,' OK?"

[kramarczyk]

Andy works to expand his market by introducing AndyMark novelty party products.

Andy: When baked into a cake these AM party wheels will prevent the guest of honor from blowing out the candles by moving the cake in random directions.

Perspective customer: What does the label on them say?

Andy: Oh, that. These should only be used on a rather large table; the lawyers made us put those on.

[EddieMcD]

"He may be able to divide by zero, but even Andy Baker can't figure out how the heck the Lakers blew Game 4 of the NBA finals."

[skimoose]

Dr. Baker writes a prescription:

"Two two super shifters and call me at Kickoff." :cool:

[Rich Wong]

(This picture is taken in 1985; you can see how young Andy looks!)
During his high school year in Junior Achievement Andy's enterprise spirits were high but he just couldn’t market his “Omni directional Pot & Dish coasters to anybody.”
Not even a free daisy with every Omni-coaster.

[Billfred]

Alright, alright, I'm doing it! :P

First place goes to:

"Mi-kan-umm .... uhhhhhhh... Ma-cun-im ... grrr .... Mech-in .... ackkkkkk!!! Hey Mark, I ran out of paper. We're just gonna call them 'Way-Cooler-Omnis-on-a-Slanty-Angle,' OK?"

Second place goes to:

I still can't believe these floral arrangements are outselling me...

Honorable mentions go to...

1) EddieMcD
2) GaryVoshol
3) JaneYoung
4) Don Rotolo
5) KathieK
6) Travis Hoffman
7) EricH

And the burn award...

Andy works to expand his market by introducing AndyMark novelty party products.

Andy: When baked into a cake these AM party wheels will prevent the guest of honor from blowing out the candles by moving the cake in random directions.

Perspective customer: What does the label on them say?

Andy: Oh, that. These should only be used on a rather large table; the lawyers made us put those on.

Which means the scores are...

EddieMcD 133
Travis Hoffman 132
JaneYoung 128
GaryVoshol 125
boiler 119
KathieK 113
Wayne Doenges 110
kramarczyk 91
EricH 90
Don Rotolo 90
Al Skierkiewicz 85
EricS-Team180 81
Rich Wong 71
skimoose 54
BlondeNerd 33
rocketperson44 32
lukevanoort 30
Greg Needel 30
Barry Bonzack 28
Rick TYler 25
raymaniac 21
dlavery 20
joshsmithers 19
Andy Baker 18
InfernoX14 18
Alan8or 16
cooker52 15
Diriye 14
Jay H 237 14
Rich Kressly 14
Tottanka 12
Schnabel 11
Libby K 10
MissInformation 10
3dude_2231 10
Pavan 10
Lil' Lavery 9
Cynette 9
KarenH 8
Hiteak 8
Alex Cormier 8
Nuttyman54 8
Danielle H 8
Richard 7
Koko Ed 7
wpdrummer 7
Alexa Stott 6
Kristian Calhoun 6
Rosiebotboss 6
Michelle Celio 6
basicxman 6
zinefer 6
Tim Delles 5
Jeff Rodriguez 5
taylort 5
Dave Scheck 4
Joe Matt 4
"Big Mike" 4
Bcahn836 4
SSMike 4
Derek Smith 3
Otaku 3
Protronie 3
artdutra04 3
BandChick 3
Bharat Nain 3
Dorienne 3
Elgin Clock 3
robotcanuck1676 3
Zyik 3
Karibou 3
lilstogi11 3
11Mort11 2
Beth Sweet 2
ChrisH 2
dhoizner 2
iCurtis 2
KTorak 2
Peter Matteson 2
ShaneP 2
sishu7 2
Spiffizzle 2
Tetraman 2
vhcook 2
1902_Battery_SGT 2
Jeremiah Johnson 2
lingomaniac88 2
Matt Attallah 2
Water Bandit23 2
114ManualLabor 1
65_Xero_Huskie 1
acdcfan259 1
andrew348 1
bduddy 1
blakcheez 1
blaxbb 1
Carol 1
cobrawanabe1699 1
Conor Ryan 1
crafty 1
Goober!!! 1
Herodotus 1
Jack K. 1
JBotAlan 1
Jessica Boucher 1
jmb226 1
JMB226 1
KelliV 1
Littleswimmer14 1
SlimBoJones 1
Steve W 1
whlspacedude 1
Kyle Love 1