CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #86
 

Although I'm sure I'll encounter some resistance in the process I'll point out that (19)86 was a very good year. If it weren't for 1986, I'd have been born some other year. Scary, huh?

Here's the scores:

And here's the picture:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pubarso...in/set-419531/

As always, the deadline is Saturday at midnight EST.

Go!

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"Listen here sonny..."

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With these glasses on hopefully no one will notice I snoozed through the whole meeting. Hey! Where is everybody?

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"If The World Had A Front Porch"
By Tracy Lawrence

It was where my mama sat on that old swing with her crochet
It was where grandaddy taught me how to cuss and how to pray
It was where we made our own ice cream those sultry summer nights
Where the bulldog had her puppies and us brothers had our fights
There were many nights I'd sit right there and look out at the stars
To the sound of a distant wippoorwhill or the hum of a passin' car
It was where I first got up the nerve to steal me my first kiss
And it was where I learned to play guitar and pray I had the gift
If the world had a front porch like we did back then
We'd still have our problems but we'd all be friends
Treatin' your neighbor like he's your next of kin
Wouldn't be gone with the wind
If the world had a front porch like we did back then

Purple hulls and pintos I've shelled more than my share
Cause lighting bugs and crickets danced in the evening air
And like a beacon that ol' yellow moon it always led me home
Some how mama always knew just when to leave it on
If the world had a front porch...
Treatin' your neighbor...

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If FIRST ruled the world...

Mike M.: This porch ain't big enough for the two of us.
Bill B.: The Indiana Mafia is displeased by your comments.

Annoying Announcer voice: We interupt this program to bring you a brief word from our sponsors!

AB: AndyMark has just released its trademarked AM transmission in fifteenth generation! Be sure to have one on your 2016 FIRST robot, for this year's challenge "Lavery Lagoon!"

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(in best gravelly, grouchy, grumpy old man voice) "... and back in the day, we didn't have none of those new fangled computers - we did all our calculating by putting rocks in little piles. You whippersnappers have it way too easy! We didn't have none of those "intergrated circuses" for our robots, neither. We had to use tubes and plug them into power supplies the size of the Hoover Dam. And when the tubes burned out, we pulled them out with our teeth! And if we burned our mouth in the process, we just smeared cactus juice on the burns. 'Cause that was all we had, and we liked it! When our robots used laser beams to burn our eyes out we didn't go crying to no doctors - we just put on sunglasses and kept on working. You young kids don't know how good you have it! And we had to walk to school. It was uphill - both ways! And we didn't go all comfortable with those silly "shoe" things - we just wrapped our feet in barbed wire. And we liked it! When we were done, we didn't have none of these here "houses" to go home to, we just crawled into a carboard box and set it down by the side of the road..."

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"I wear my sunglasses at night so I can so I can..."
Hey mike? it's in the daytime. it's not cool anymore.

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Thought bubble: I wonder if i should be doing something FIRST related right now? Nah. *falls asleep (after being awake for 6 weeks strait)*

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If I wear these sunglasses the team won't recognize me and I won't get in trouble for being out of uniform. I hate that orange colored team 47 shirt and they know it, but they keep making me wear it anyways!

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"Hmmmm, I wonder if the 07 game is going to have water in it???" :D :D :D

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"You have got to be kidding me. I don't care if you are two feet taller and 20 years younger than I am. Brandon, if you stick that digital camera in my face just once more during the offseason, I'm gonna... (camera shakes, screen goes abruptly to black)"

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1986-ish reply:
"My future's so bright, I gotta wear shades."

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"Yep, the turnado went right through here... yep, it looked the same as the last three times this week... no, I do not support gun control..."

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You kids get away, this here seats taken by CDXI when she gets home from Atlanta. I miss her already. ::tear::

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Brandon in the year 2046

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Why do I work on robots when there's all these other things to be built, including naps?

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"Aaaah this is the life...no kids around, no wife to hassle me, no FIRST....WHAT?! NO FIRST! That can't be right..."

<b>*two minutes later*</b>

"Aaaah this is the life...no kids around, no wife to hassle me, Chief Delphi all to myself..."

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Mike: "Son, I’m telling ya, the 1990’s were the good old days of robotics. Yes sir!

See this T-shirt, a MINT condition 1996 Hexagon Havoc, a collector’s item.
Dean wishes he had my collection.

I only wear it once a year, next week I’ll wear my 1995 Ramp n’ Roll in black.
One of a kind!
Someday my whole collection of FIRST T-shirts will be yours.
Did I tell you about the time in 1994 I ….. son? Where did he go?"

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M.D.: "Mike, it's worse than we thought."
Mike: "What is it, doctor?"
M.D.: "I'm afraid you're... old."

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That guy is obviously never been to a FIRST competition.

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Mike (thinking to himself): I don't care how many times anyone asks me if I'm going to sit here all night, I'm not moving until they all go home. It's not my fault I didn't see the "wet paint" sign before I sat on this bench. They should have printed it in ChiefDelphi Orange, I betcha I would have seen it then!

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/NPOE
Returning to the contest after a few weeks when I just didn't feel very funny.
/NPOE

<spit> Your guitar pickin' is nice Brandon, but I'm telling you that if DS&TKB is going to make it big, they need a banjo player.

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Aw, c'mon Gary--that never stops me from posting! ;)

First place goes to:

Second place goes to:

Honorable mentions go to:

1) Mr. I-get-ideas-from-the-Virginia-Science-Museum-fwahaahaa! (;))
2) Miss I-got-mentioned-by-Mr.-I-get-ideas-from-the-Virginia-Science-Museum-fwahaahaa!-at-VCU (;) squared)
3) EddieMcD
4) Rich Wong
5) meaubry
6) Dorienne 007
7) EricH
8) iCurtis
9) Wayne Doenges

And the burn award...

Which means the scores are...

Onward!

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So in the future, UCC (Unofficial Caption Contest) participants can invoke the "Gary Dillard" Rule when we are not feeling funny?????
:D

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Actually, The Gary Dillard Rule says folks can ask me to fudge the deadline or start of a contest because of important-type stuff. Hurricanes, for example.