Caption Competition
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This week, Dutch "swine whisperer" Kees Scheepens hypnotises a piglet to uncover stress attitude in a pigsty in Germany.
6. SimonRooke wrote:
And this little piggy went Z, Z, Z, all the way home.
5. patio-phalangistwrote:
"... And there you are, a perfect, sausage roll..."
4. Filboid wrote:
Just humour me - try holding the apple in your mouth.
3. Edmund Crispin wrote:
You are feeling streaky.... You are feeling streaky....
2. CindyAccidentally wrote:
How to cure bacon.
1. BeckySnow wrote:
"Do your wurst! C'mon, I dare you!"
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Comment number 1.
At 28th Jun 2012, Candace9839 wrote:Swine blue
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At 28th Jun 2012, Filboid wrote:³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ trials new zen photo version of caption comp.
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At 28th Jun 2012, Rob Falconer wrote:Yeah, technically I’m a pygnotist
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At 28th Jun 2012, Pendragon wrote:Winnie the Pooh loves you ... Winnie the Pooh loves you ...
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At 28th Jun 2012, Steele Hawker wrote:Yeah, I'm a sowchologist
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At 28th Jun 2012, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:Pigs in trace
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At 28th Jun 2012, Valerie Ganne wrote:And, when you come out of your trance, you will see a picture on the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ MM Caption Competition page
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At 28th Jun 2012, Raven Clare wrote:The Dutch clearly don't believe in nominative determinism - Scheepens in the pigsty?
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At 28th Jun 2012, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:High of the hog
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Comment number 10.
At 28th Jun 2012, Nick Fowler wrote:The whole pigsty had been stressed ever since they had opened an all-day breakfast café next door
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At 28th Jun 2012, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:Kees also performs on the stage under the name of Paul BaKonna
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At 28th Jun 2012, Filboid wrote:Oh well, a thousand words are worth one picture...Dolly must have mucked up the links again.
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Comment number 13.
At 28th Jun 2012, MorningGlories wrote:Look, sauerkraut goes with many things. This is nothing to worry about.
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At 28th Jun 2012, Reeve Burgess wrote:There never would have been any stress if the farmer hadn't left a copy of "Animal Farm" lying around
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At 28th Jun 2012, Gurney Nutting wrote:Pigs often get stressed under the pressure of trying to keep the place clean
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At 28th Jun 2012, Candace9839 wrote:Yrs. Kermit was your father.
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At 28th Jun 2012, Martin Walter wrote:Kees couldn't understand why the pigs were so stressed. After all, it was hardly barbecue weather ...
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Comment number 18.
At 28th Jun 2012, BeckySnow wrote:"Dolly - a word in my office, now."
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Comment number 19.
At 28th Jun 2012, Frankonline wrote:300 Caption Competition guinea pigs participate in imaginary caption competition.
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Comment number 20.
At 28th Jun 2012, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:My methods are indeed sloppy.
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Comment number 21.
At 28th Jun 2012, Rob Falconer wrote:Frankly, mud ear, I don't give a damn
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Comment number 22.
At 28th Jun 2012, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:The lipstick is just not on, I'm afraid.
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Comment number 23.
At 28th Jun 2012, Pendragon wrote:Scheepens was able to calm the stressed pigs by saying over and over again the phrase "Mint sauce, mint sauce ..."
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Comment number 24.
At 28th Jun 2012, Steele Hawker wrote:The piglet was pleased he'd ticked the box for "No publicity"
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At 28th Jun 2012, Filboid wrote:How creative! Make up a caption and a photo to go with it. I spy with my little eye...a man...and a piglet...and lots of clowns, of course.
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Comment number 26.
At 28th Jun 2012, LaurenceLane wrote:He's just a hamateur.
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Comment number 27.
At 28th Jun 2012, BeckySnow wrote:"Do your wurst! C'mon, I dare you!"
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Comment number 28.
At 28th Jun 2012, MorningGlories wrote:You will grow up to admire Kevin Bacon.
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At 28th Jun 2012, BaldoBingham wrote:Nintendo reveal the new Wiiiiii.
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Comment number 30.
At 28th Jun 2012, Frankonline wrote:When I snap my fingers and say "Bacon" you will wake up and run for your life.
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Comment number 31.
At 28th Jun 2012, rogueslr wrote:And this little piggy went Z, Z, Z, all the way home.
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At 28th Jun 2012, Valerie Ganne wrote:It wasn't much of a consulting-room, but there as no way Kees was having the pigs on his couch
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At 28th Jun 2012, Gray Gable wrote:Diederik – the loaf and ketchup now please..
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At 28th Jun 2012, Candace9839 wrote:Nothing a silk purse can't fix.
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At 28th Jun 2012, Raven Clare wrote:At long last, Pork Farms manage to breed the baguette-sized pig
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Comment number 36.
At 28th Jun 2012, SkarloeyLine wrote:"So, that's two goals for Germany and none for Italy?"
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Comment number 37.
At 28th Jun 2012, Kudosless wrote:Now cast your mind back. What exactly did this wolf look like?
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Comment number 38.
At 28th Jun 2012, Filboid wrote:You are getting sleepy...your eyes are closing...now picture yourself...please.
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Comment number 39.
At 28th Jun 2012, penny-farthing wrote:"Did you say 'runt'? Cos now I'm stressed".
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At 28th Jun 2012, CindyAccidentally wrote:How to cure bacon.
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At 28th Jun 2012, BeckySnow wrote:Jazz hands a go-go at rehearsals for Babe the musical.
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Comment number 42.
At 28th Jun 2012, Neil Webber wrote:And this is how you make a bacon roll
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Comment number 43.
At 28th Jun 2012, patio-phalangist wrote:''...and there you are, a perfect, sausage roll.....''
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At 28th Jun 2012, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:And then the bartender says "I was talking to the goose"
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At 28th Jun 2012, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:Stressed? I though you said stretched.
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At 28th Jun 2012, Filboid wrote:And when you hear the phrase 'four legs good, two legs bad', you will awaken feeling completely refreshed and remember nothing.
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At 28th Jun 2012, Raven Clare wrote:Miss Piggy goes on a Celebrity Fat Club workout
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At 28th Jun 2012, Candace9839 wrote:Yes. Kermit was your father.
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At 28th Jun 2012, Nick Fowler wrote:OK, so maybe that medicine ball was a bit heavy for you
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At 28th Jun 2012, Reeve Burgess wrote:OK, now he's quiet and stress-free, stick that apple in his mouth!
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At 28th Jun 2012, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:Und the roast is history.
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At 28th Jun 2012, Martin Walter wrote:You are feeling streaky ... you are feeling streaky ...
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Comment number 53.
At 28th Jun 2012, BeckySnow wrote:(piglet stalling for time) "Try and say 'beer can' without sounding like a Jamaican saying 'bacon' - can't be done."
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Comment number 54.
At 28th Jun 2012, CindyAccidentally wrote:Unfortunately, Kees had registered his London-based company as Trotters Independent Training.
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Comment number 55.
At 28th Jun 2012, Valerie Ganne wrote:The psychologist was just thinking how much he'd like a few rashers and a Freud egg
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At 28th Jun 2012, Kudosless wrote:Ein. Schwein. Fry Fear
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Comment number 57.
At 28th Jun 2012, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:Stressed? I thought you said stretched.
(correction)
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At 28th Jun 2012, Gurney Nutting wrote:Boy, is this piglet heavy! You'd better get a pork-lift truck.
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At 28th Jun 2012, Rob Falconer wrote:And, to complete the cure, I'd recommend a massage, a mud bath, and two hours at Regulo 8
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At 28th Jun 2012, Filboid wrote:When I snap my fingers, you will awake and have no desire to smoke cigarettes ever again.
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At 28th Jun 2012, Fi wrote:On the count of three, just relax and then lean back...
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At 28th Jun 2012, MorningGlories wrote:A fish may not need a bicycle, but a pig certainly needs coping skills.
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At 28th Jun 2012, Pendragon wrote:Haribo prepares to go into production with their latest sweet, Swine Gums
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At 28th Jun 2012, BeckySnow wrote:Piglet told to wait 600 seconds before posting gives up the will to live.
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At 28th Jun 2012, Raven Clare wrote:But you're a pig - you can't go cat-atonic
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At 28th Jun 2012, Candace9839 wrote:Who says we don't have a sense of humour?
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At 28th Jun 2012, Kudosless wrote:Perky didn't know whether to be relieved or worried to discover that "Kees Scheepens" is Dutch for "Kiss Sheep".
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At 28th Jun 2012, Nick Fowler wrote:Miss Piggy goes into a stupor after begin rejected once more by Michael Parkinson
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At 28th Jun 2012, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:We're all worried about Greece, but we're doing all we can.
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At 28th Jun 2012, Steele Hawker wrote:The Empress of Blandings reacts badly on hearing she is to be rehoused on a council estate
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Comment number 71.
At 28th Jun 2012, Filboid wrote:Just humour me - try holding the apple in your mouth.
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At 28th Jun 2012, Clare wrote:Single razorback, 5 points. That means I'm winning!
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At 28th Jun 2012, johnc wrote:Rip Ham Winkle
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At 28th Jun 2012, Reeve Burgess wrote:The customs officers at Berlin were still laughing at what Kees had in his passport under "occupation"
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At 28th Jun 2012, Kudosless wrote:And when my wife walked in, "swine whisperer" was the first thing I could think up ...
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Comment number 76.
At 28th Jun 2012, penny-farthing wrote:"'......and this little piggy had none'.That's why I get stressed!"
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At 28th Jun 2012, Filboid wrote:Good, he's under - now where's that blanket?
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At 28th Jun 2012, johnc wrote:And when you awake you will think you are a sheepdog.
3, 2, 1, you are back in the room.
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At 28th Jun 2012, tundra1 wrote:Jiggery piggery
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Comment number 80.
At 28th Jun 2012, Kudosless wrote:Actually, I'm a Swiss wine-pourer, but I'll have a go
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At 28th Jun 2012, VirtuousFang wrote:'Vorsprung Pork technik'
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At 28th Jun 2012, Filboid wrote:So, you're really only three degrees of separation from bacon...I mean, um, Kevin Bacon.
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At 28th Jun 2012, johnc wrote:Closer, closer...
Vlad the Attack Pig's play dead ruse was working, as the prey crouched down nearer to his gaping maw...
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At 28th Jun 2012, Martin Walter wrote:Kees was glad he'd worn his hard hat as the enemy started throwing ever-heavier livestock at him and his men
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At 28th Jun 2012, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:Lovely plumage, the Norwegian Pink ...
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At 28th Jun 2012, Frankonline wrote:As Kees broke wind, he never got the chance to hypnotise the piglet.
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At 28th Jun 2012, Kudosless wrote:So, Kees. How are you getting on assembling that flat-pig wardrobe?
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At 28th Jun 2012, johnc wrote:Its not dead. Its resting.
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At 28th Jun 2012, Gurney Nutting wrote:Unfortunately, this little piggy didn't speak German, and went oui oui oui all the way home
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At 28th Jun 2012, Kudosless wrote:If you really dream of being LIBOR-rated, I think you need to talk to Barclays
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At 28th Jun 2012, david regan wrote:..... and then we just roll in salt, pop him in a tray and roast on a low heat for 3 hours
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At 28th Jun 2012, Rob Falconer wrote:As David Tennant rehearsed with a little pig, he clearly hadn't understood Shakespeare's underlying concept of Hamlet
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At 28th Jun 2012, Filboid wrote:600 seconds! That's like 10 minutes in pig-years!
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At 28th Jun 2012, Pendragon wrote:A Dutch psychologist tries to cure Porky Pig of his stutter
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At 28th Jun 2012, GuitarKate wrote:I was only joking. England didn't win the penalty shoot-out.
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At 28th Jun 2012, Steele Hawker wrote:A financial analyst discovers that Barclay's has been telling porkies again ...
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At 28th Jun 2012, Valerie Ganne wrote:Nah, there's not a lot of money in this game. In fact I'm barely pork scratching a living.
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At 28th Jun 2012, Raven Clare wrote:Yes, your pigsty is very clean. So how long have you suffered from OCD?
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At 28th Jun 2012, grazvalentine wrote:...and when you wake up, I'm no longer a three bar electric fire but a talking piglet lying on its back...
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At 28th Jun 2012, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:I'm afraid she's determined to have those pearls. I blame Miss Piggy.
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