Caption Competition
Winning entries in the Caption Competition.
The competition is now closed.
This week it was contestants in the synchronised swimming competition at the European Swimming Championships, currently being held in Hungary.
Thanks to all who entered. The prize of a small amount of kudos to the following:
6. Manisha
Mystery of the Lochness was finally solved - much to the dismay of many
5. Indum49
The "Simon Says" competition was now down to the last two!
4. SimonRookeÌý
"Keep smiling and edge towards the exit, I think that's Lembit Opik in the audience."
3. Gregss100x
John Barrowman launches JAWS: The musical
2. Ajshaw
Paris and Lindsey still found it difficult to distinguish between eyebrow pencils and toothpaste.
1. Cairngorm McWomble
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - the global warming years.
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Comment number 1.
At 5th Aug 2010, Rob Falconer wrote:Hungary for medals
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Comment number 2.
At 5th Aug 2010, Rob Falconer wrote:I bet that Magyar eyes water
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Comment number 3.
At 5th Aug 2010, Keyff Smyff wrote:Not waving, drowning.
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Comment number 4.
At 5th Aug 2010, Keyff Smyff wrote:Shark
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Comment number 5.
At 5th Aug 2010, rogueslr wrote:"Keep smiling and edge towards the exit, I think that's Lembit Opik in the audience."
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Comment number 6.
At 5th Aug 2010, rogueslr wrote:Will you quit humming the theme from 'Jaws'!
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Comment number 7.
At 5th Aug 2010, Rob Falconer wrote:Anyway, whose idea was it to stage "Swan Lake on Ice" during a heatwave?
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Comment number 8.
At 5th Aug 2010, Rob Falconer wrote:No wonder that was the longest-ever Cross-channel swim!
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Comment number 9.
At 5th Aug 2010, Hellagooduk wrote:Tragedy! averted, as Steps play on despite the stage flooding.
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Comment number 10.
At 5th Aug 2010, rogueslr wrote:Piranha 3D - The Musical.
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Comment number 11.
At 5th Aug 2010, Cairngorm McWomble wrote:Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - the global warming years.
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Comment number 12.
At 5th Aug 2010, Rob Falconer wrote:Unfortunately, their routine was totally destroyed when they were both distracted by a Mars Bar someone had dropped in the pool
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Comment number 13.
At 5th Aug 2010, rogueslr wrote:'Have you got the locker keys?'
'No, I thought you did?'
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Comment number 14.
At 5th Aug 2010, rogueslr wrote:Nobody move! I've dropped my contact lens.
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Comment number 15.
At 5th Aug 2010, lindum49 wrote:Team New Zealand's HAKA was proving to be an early highlight........
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Comment number 16.
At 5th Aug 2010, Rob Falconer wrote:No, I said to get a girl from the pool because I wanted a letter typed
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Comment number 17.
At 5th Aug 2010, Dyeb wrote:To you, no to you, no to you ....
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Comment number 18.
At 5th Aug 2010, rogueslr wrote:We believe this to be 'learned behaviour', they were raised by dolphins in Seaworld.
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Comment number 19.
At 5th Aug 2010, Dyeb wrote:Oh my god did you have Goulash for lunch?
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Comment number 20.
At 5th Aug 2010, BaldoBingham wrote:To subsidise their training, Dawn and Jacqui both work in the make-up department at Debenhams.
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Comment number 21.
At 5th Aug 2010, Dyeb wrote:Anything you can do I can do better, no you can't, yes I can .....
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Comment number 22.
At 5th Aug 2010, Valerie Ganne wrote:You mean we both forgot our watches?
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Comment number 23.
At 5th Aug 2010, lindum49 wrote:What were the odds of coming all this way for a swim and discovering someone else had the same cossie on?
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Comment number 24.
At 5th Aug 2010, Mad hatter wrote:Paris and Lindsey still found it difficult to distinguish between eyebrow pencils and toothpaste.
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Comment number 25.
At 5th Aug 2010, BaldoBingham wrote:What really separates man from the fishes? Jazz hands!
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Comment number 26.
At 5th Aug 2010, lindum49 wrote:OK......who let the electric eel out!
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Comment number 27.
At 5th Aug 2010, Valerie Ganne wrote:Some synchronised swimmer, you are! You arrived at the pool ten minutes after me!
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Comment number 28.
At 5th Aug 2010, lindum49 wrote:The "Simon Says" competition was now down to the last two!
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Comment number 29.
At 5th Aug 2010, littleDickie wrote:"OMG...The flatulence attack after vindaloos is really the worst!"
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Comment number 30.
At 5th Aug 2010, Valerie Ganne wrote:Of course there are no men - this is a synchronised women competition
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Comment number 31.
At 5th Aug 2010, littleDickie wrote:"Well Sonya, I can see you're a bit behind in yer timing..."
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Comment number 32.
At 5th Aug 2010, Tremorman wrote:Arrrrghhh who pulled the plug out.
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Comment number 33.
At 5th Aug 2010, Spraggy wrote:Ant and Dec really do look the part on ITV's new reality TV show Strictly Syncronised Swimming.
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Comment number 34.
At 5th Aug 2010, Ade wrote:"Okay, one word, rhymes with 'dark', some kind of carnivorous seafaring mammal... bark? Snark?"
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Comment number 35.
At 5th Aug 2010, Spraggy wrote:As the girls jumped in the Shark pool at Sea world some one was heard to say "shoud've gone to specsavers".
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Comment number 36.
At 5th Aug 2010, Tremorman wrote:Were they dancing to water music
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Comment number 37.
At 5th Aug 2010, Tremorman wrote:and suddenly the ice melted.
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Comment number 38.
At 5th Aug 2010, Ade wrote:Early reviews for 'Jaws The Musical' were generally disappointing.
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Comment number 39.
At 5th Aug 2010, Tremorman wrote:Proof of global warming as celebrity dancing on ice gets underway.
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Comment number 40.
At 5th Aug 2010, BaldoBingham wrote:Chuck 'em a fish and they'll do another five lengths.
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Comment number 41.
At 5th Aug 2010, Valerie Ganne wrote:Actually I've got my feet on the bottom - Lavinia's bottom
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Comment number 42.
At 5th Aug 2010, Valerie Ganne wrote:The French however were just piscine about
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Comment number 43.
At 5th Aug 2010, Valerie Ganne wrote:I went to the canteen for lunch - ruddy fish again!
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Comment number 44.
At 5th Aug 2010, Nick Fowler wrote:Even Gene Kelly would have needed more than an umbrella for this remake of 'Singing in the Rain'
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Comment number 45.
At 5th Aug 2010, Mr Snoozy wrote:Close your mouths please girls, we are not a Cod-fish..
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Comment number 46.
At 5th Aug 2010, Nick Fowler wrote:Maybe we should have both gone before we started
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Comment number 47.
At 5th Aug 2010, Mr Snoozy wrote:BP re-opens the swimming lanes in the Gulf of Mexico!
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Comment number 48.
At 5th Aug 2010, Mr Snoozy wrote:Britain won the synchronised Fishing competition after hooking a couple of crackers!
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Comment number 49.
At 5th Aug 2010, Nick Fowler wrote:I had my ballet shoes all ready in case there was a hosepipe ban
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Comment number 50.
At 5th Aug 2010, Mark S wrote:BP releases new TV ad about the Gulf of Mexico.
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Comment number 51.
At 5th Aug 2010, Nick Fowler wrote:Hurry up - they told us to be ready for 2012, and it's five past eight already
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Comment number 52.
At 5th Aug 2010, Nick Fowler wrote:However, Afghanistan was disqualified after it was found their team consisted of one swimmer and a mirror
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Comment number 53.
At 5th Aug 2010, Nick Fowler wrote:The show must go on, Gloria - keep synchronising until the Carpathia gets here
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Comment number 54.
At 5th Aug 2010, Pendragon wrote:Peter Stringfellow had a well-stocked aquarium
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Comment number 55.
At 5th Aug 2010, Paul Morris wrote:Deja Vue!
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Comment number 56.
At 5th Aug 2010, Pendragon wrote:Well, it doesn't actually say anything in the rules about Siamese twins ...
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Comment number 57.
At 5th Aug 2010, Discombobulator wrote:Its called a coalition - either we swim together or we sink together.
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Comment number 58.
At 5th Aug 2010, Mr Snoozy wrote:The Polish synchronised diving team put on a brave face despite coming to land in "the shallow end"...
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Comment number 59.
At 5th Aug 2010, Pendragon wrote:Yeah, I'm Pisces too!
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Comment number 60.
At 5th Aug 2010, Candace9839 wrote:Who needs Miranda rights anyway?
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Comment number 61.
At 5th Aug 2010, Pendragon wrote:That couple over there ignoring the "No petting" rule seem to be synchronising pretty well too
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Comment number 62.
At 5th Aug 2010, Candace9839 wrote:The Ethel Merman tribute was not as popular as in recent years
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Comment number 63.
At 5th Aug 2010, Candace9839 wrote:So that’s why he likes fishing so much
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Comment number 64.
At 5th Aug 2010, Candace9839 wrote:Me and my shallow
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Comment number 65.
At 5th Aug 2010, Presto West End wrote:The one on the left is a moose.
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Comment number 66.
At 5th Aug 2010, Candace9839 wrote:It was the only way we could get the crew to pay attention to the safety briefing
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Comment number 67.
At 5th Aug 2010, Ade wrote:Chaos erupts as Rick Wakeman's new rock opera "Dante's Inferno on Ice" goes horribly wrong.
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Comment number 68.
At 5th Aug 2010, Pendragon wrote:Nadia knew she could really deep-end on Anya
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Comment number 69.
At 5th Aug 2010, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:How’s the competition going? Swimmingly.
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Comment number 70.
At 5th Aug 2010, Pendragon wrote:Anna and Svetlana felt their careers were going down the drain
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Comment number 71.
At 5th Aug 2010, Matchew wrote:Steps rehearse their version of tragedy for the 2012 opening ceremony.
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Comment number 72.
At 5th Aug 2010, JimmyG wrote:For Steps, it was the biggest Tragedy of all.
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Comment number 73.
At 5th Aug 2010, Catherine J wrote:Rehersals for Lady Gaga's new music video are going well
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Comment number 74.
At 5th Aug 2010, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:Actually we pull our hair back this tightly so our mouths will stay open.
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Comment number 75.
At 5th Aug 2010, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:Splash dance
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Comment number 76.
At 5th Aug 2010, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:We're trying to channel our inner Ester Williams
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Comment number 77.
At 5th Aug 2010, Presto West End wrote:They had already bagged the bronzer medal, and they were going well in the eyeliner and armpit shaving events.
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Comment number 78.
At 5th Aug 2010, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:We're trying to channel our inner Esther Williams
(correction)
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Comment number 79.
At 5th Aug 2010, Raven Clare wrote:OK, but do you have to copy everything I do?
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Comment number 80.
At 5th Aug 2010, Presto West End wrote:It was odds on that this year's Miss Seaworld would be one of the Latvian entrants.
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Comment number 81.
At 5th Aug 2010, Raven Clare wrote:It was a real tragedy - my co-star started to drown, but I copied everything she did, so nobody noticed ...
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Comment number 82.
At 5th Aug 2010, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:OK who kicked the drain plug out?!
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Comment number 83.
At 5th Aug 2010, Raven Clare wrote:The Village Ballet Corps were a little out of their depth with their latest produciton of 'Swan Lake'
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Comment number 84.
At 5th Aug 2010, Raven Clare wrote:#83 - sorry, production
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Comment number 85.
At 5th Aug 2010, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:The new format for Shark Week on the Discovery Channel would prove a ratings success
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Comment number 86.
At 5th Aug 2010, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:We’re trying to spin your head right round actually
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Comment number 87.
At 5th Aug 2010, gmcoates wrote:Oh no it's those people from the Caption Competition, try to look inconspicuous Mabel.
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Comment number 88.
At 5th Aug 2010, Matchew wrote:I think we're out of our depth!
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Comment number 89.
At 5th Aug 2010, Liam wrote:Person on the left: MAH TOES HAVE GONE WRINKLY. >:(
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Comment number 90.
At 5th Aug 2010, funkyhorn wrote:This time, the new coach has given reassurances that the routine will be politically correct. In an interview with the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Mr Jolson added "Last week we tried blue instead of black. A couple of us got lost on the way to the training ground and ended up in some kind of protest about mining in India. And anyway, it came off in the water".
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Comment number 91.
At 5th Aug 2010, David Majka wrote:It is the Lobsters who have the last laugh.
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Comment number 92.
At 5th Aug 2010, Peter N wrote:YMCA - Latvian stylee
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Comment number 93.
At 5th Aug 2010, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:Hungary? No thanks, I just ate.
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Comment number 94.
At 5th Aug 2010, GirlWeekday wrote:"AAH, my SWIMMING CAP!"
"Shut up and keep going"
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Comment number 95.
At 5th Aug 2010, Em_Eng wrote:Argh! The chlorine really stings!
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Comment number 96.
At 5th Aug 2010, Mike wrote:Lib-Con efforts to appear harmonious were becoming extreme!
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Comment number 97.
At 5th Aug 2010, MayoGirl wrote:Peek-a-boo!
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Comment number 98.
At 5th Aug 2010, Raven Clare wrote:We'd better hurry up out of the pool - the next entrant on ITV's 'Celebrities Swimming in Water' is John Sergeant
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Comment number 99.
At 5th Aug 2010, Basil Long wrote:Our hair is going to be 'this big' when we get out because we forgot our straighteners
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Comment number 100.
At 5th Aug 2010, Raven Clare wrote:I don't want to worry you, Nadia, but we set off from Dover fifteen hours ago and I'm still not out of my depth
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