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Last week, we showed you this picture and asked you to come up with a caption for it. We had less responses than usual, but still managed to pick out a winner from the pile.

The prize for best caption to last week’s picture goes to Andrew Mills, who provided this:

But that nice homeopath woman told me the treatment would make them go away. Not make them bigger!! Last time I rub water on my crabs…

Homeopathy and STDs. Who’d have thought to combine the two?

This week’s picture involves a slightly more famous human being with another anonymous animal. What should be the caption for the picture below?

Last week we showed you this photograph of what appears to be the home of a cyberman in a leafy suburb.

Amidst the accusations of cyberman-dressing-denialism aimed at Hayley Stevens, who graciously supplied the photo, there were some good answers this week.

Lard supplied this disconcertingly real parody of the kinds of letters paranormal investigators must hate receiving:

“hi my name is Angela and im sending yuou this photo becuase i like yoiur site and your alwats have good ghost pictures this picture was takem by my mother as a picture of some nice greenry and plants she thought was nice but in the window is a ghost figure that wasnot there when the picture was taken.The house where the picture was taken was where some one may have died once and there was no one in the house wehn the picture was took. you can see the ghost is wearing old silver cloths like they did in olded times and a old hat or something.”

Spelling mistakes most likely intended.

Lard came very close to winning, but the verisimilitude of the woo in ‘Angela”s letter unfortunately just made us depressed, so we had to cheer ourselves up with a more upbeat caption (never let it be said that we’re fickle).

In the end, we decided to hand the trophy to Lucas Randall for this entry:

“Shit – did I just hear The Doctor?”

Well done, Lucas.

So, from cybermen to crustaceans now, as we bring you this photograph of Merseyside Skeptic and InKredulous host, Andy Wilson, enthusiastically showing off a lobster:

What should be the caption for the picture below?

Last week we showed you this picture and asked you to come up with a caption for it. Because, you know, it’s a caption competition. After hours and hours – alright, minutes – of laborious and painstaking thought we at MSS HQ finally agreed upon a winner in the form of this simple yet elegant entry:

Colin: Duuuude.

Mike: Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuude.

Thanks to Lene Taylor for that one.

This week’s picture comes courtesy of Hayley Stevens of the Righteous Indignation podcast. You may need to look closely at this one.

What should be the caption for the picture below?

Last week, we showed you this picture and asked you to come up with a suitable caption. As always we had lots of great answers, and once again we were tempted to have joint winners. Unfortunately, if we have too many joint winners there’s the possibility you may all become complacent and slack in your efforts, so we’re going to go with a solo winner this week in aid of furthering your competitive instincts. Think of it as helping evolution along.

So what caption won last week’s competition? That would be this one:

“Chris Atkins and Johnny Howorth’s next production went slightly beyond the realms of credibility.”

Tom W is the scribe behind this little gem. Chris Atkins and Johnny Howorth are the filmmakers behind the recent hoax footage of people supposedly murdering urban foxes. So funny and topical!

Special mentions go to Lucas Randall for this caption, and Simon Nurse for this one. We think they should get together and form a crime-fighting duo called ‘Randall and Nurse’. No? Well, suit yourselves…

Anyway, it’s that time again. No foxes this week, just two strange men. They are otherwise known as Mike Hall, president of the MSS, and Colin Harris, who is the person currently typing that name in the third person and trying not to feel too weird about it.

What should be the caption for the picture below?

Once again, it was difficult to choose a winner from last week’s competition so we’ve another joint win for you this week. Last week we showed you this picture and asked you to come up with a caption for it. We got a lot of entries, mostly involving Marsh’s crotch, but we were never going for highbrow with that picture.

The two winning entries were from John, who posted first with this caption:

“It was considered important that the new tory mp had actually met a black man…”

And from Michael, with this lengthy imaginary conversation between Mike and Marsh:

Marsh: “His batteries don’t really last long enough, although a toaster would have been more reliable, but mono-functionality is sooo last year.”

Mike: “I may go for a Debenham’s list for my wedding gifts.”

Marsh: “Playin’ it safe.”

Mike: “No I just can’t see the need for ‘one of those’.”

Marsh: “I haven’t shown you the ‘executive options’ pack.”

Special mention goes to Adam, Jo and LucasRandall, who all came close to winning.

No crotch-related imagery in this week’s picture, at least we don’t think so. You may prove us wrong. Get your imagination ready. Here’s this week’s picture, from hahastop.com:

Hello again, caption creators! We got a great response for our first edition of the Caption Competition. It’s been very difficult to choose a winner from the treasure trove of wit sent our way, but after much debate and drama we whittled it down to two, who will be the joint winners of our very first Caption Competition.

The winners are:

Philby63, with this imaginative and athletic offering:

“After being harangued for twenty minutes with a bizarre and sometimes violent diatribe on why Jim Morrison was the reincarnation of Rameses II, David Aaronovitch responds in the only possible manner – by recreating the haunting, diaphragmic scream of a dying manatee.”

Bill Blunt, with this shorter but no less funny offering:

“For some reason, David had imagined the endoscope would be a little smaller.”

Congratulations to both of them. Special mention should go to Hayley, Paul Smout, Jon D and Matthew Partridge, who all came very close to winning.

So here we are again, with another photograph for you, this time featuring our very own Mike Hall and Michael Marshall. Train your caption-creating synapses upon the photograph below: