CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #573

[Billfred]

Welcome to the twelfth straight year of the Chief Delphi Unofficial Caption Contest!

After the season-ending contest last week, here are the scores:

You        0

Instead, I give you the rules. (Other rules have been created, but these are the ones that see use.)

Originally Posted by The Rules (enacted Caption Contest #1)

The rules:
-I am never ever gonna be eligible, unless I change the rule just before handing over control of the game to someone else.
-If it's your image I pick, you're not eligible.
-If you suggest an image and I pick it, you're not eligible.
-Entries will be scored by me on originality, or in the absence of that, dry humor.
-First place gets ten points, second gets five, honorable mentions will be awarded at my whims.

Traditionally, roughly half of the entries receive a two-point honorable mention, and one particularly good zinger received the burn award, good for three points. This year, I'm making a change: twos for (almost) everybody. Why? There are relatively few truly bad entries in recent years, and weeding out honorable mentions from singles has long been the biggest part of time spent working on the contest. What's more, giving everyone twos would not have affected the top three in the past four years. So we're going to give it a go: ten, five, three, or two. Singles will be reserved for blatant copycat entries or the truly incomprehensible.

There have been some updates to the rules over the years:

Originally Posted by The Heidi Foster Rule (enacted Caption Contest #20)

Preventing anyone from entering the caption contest by means of any feat of engineering is prohibited. This rule shall not apply if both the victim and Billfred are laughing after the act has been committed.

Originally Posted by The Billfred Is Working Way Too Much Rule (enacted Caption Contest #24)

If, for whatever reason, Billfred is working on a job on a day he has to post or judge a caption contest, he reserves the right to fudge the posting or judging by one day in either direction.

("Working" gets a rather liberal interpretation, mind you.)

Originally Posted by The OTHER Heidi Foster Rule (enacted Caption Contest #29)

No person may kidnap, threaten, or otherwise cause harm or mental distress to Billfred in order to influence the outcome of a caption contest.

Originally Posted by The -infinity Rule (enacted Caption Contest #42)

At certain times, should Billfred be pwned by a contestant, he may, at his sole discretion, assign a score of -infinity to that contestant. Points still accumulate as normal, but the -infinity score will remain posted until Billfred either lets off or forgets to add the -infinity score again.

Originally Posted by The Koko Ed Rule (enacted Caption Contest #46, but a de facto rule for long before)

Anyone except Billfred can enter the caption contest, even if it's their picture.

Since then, the only thing that's changed is the deadline: Sunday at midnight Eastern, though entries posted afterward will count if they're posted before I open the thread to score it.

Here's this week's picture:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/36842

Go!

[EricH]

A few minutes later, in another pit:

"We need to cut some aluminum exactly ->this<- long."

[GeeTwo]

"And when you get your fingers and thumb in a triangle, turn left, and back up a step so it looks like it's on the peg."

[Taylor]

I thought the game was called Logomotion. These logos don't appear to be moving at all.

[dodar]

I swear I left a triangle right here...darn you 217!!!

[Ichlieberoboter]

So you're telling me that the ones with three sides are the triangles?! The ones that look like this??? Oh wow. In that case, I'm going to have to go fix some old match scores...

[Vale]

"So you take the tube, and you hang it. Not so hard, right?"

[efoote868]

Most of the time engineering problems have open ended solutions. But that... That right there is the right answer. Other acceptable answers would have been a combination of 25, 111, 254, 987, 1114, 2056...

[GaryVoshol]

Get that volunteer off the field, and maybe 217 would have been able to put up the last triangle to complete the logo.

[cgmv123]

Covering up the lack of a perfect score with plausible deniability. You can't see if they scored, but you can't see if they didn't score either!

[Wayne Doenges]

Guy in fore ground: I've got to get a picture of the is near perfect Logo hang. OH LOOK, a quarter.

[M1KRONAUT]

We later discovered a function in 217's code called "InduceOCD," which made the robot stall if there was only one tube left to hang. The programmer who wrote this bit of code had to write an apology letter to all three teams in the alliance; and especially to his own team, who had to give their Gracious Professionalism award back.

[DohertyBilly]

Missing tube? *stands between camera and empty peg*
I don't know what you're talking about...

[Nick Lawrence]

Look ma, *some* Ubertubes!

-Nick

[Kevin Leonard]

"Ha! Let's see them do THAT in Canada!"