About the pic: On January 17, 2023, climate activist Greta Thunberg, 20, was hauled away and briefly detained by police while protesting the expansion of a coal mine in western Germany. According to Reuters, the young activist, along with a group of protesters, were warned by police that they would be “removed by force” if they did not vacate the mine site. Reacting to videos circulating on social media of Thunberg seen laughing with police before she was hauled away, viewers accused Thunberg of staging the arrest, which both Thunberg and the German police denied. (BBC)
Here’s The Body Language Guy’s video analyzing the incident:
You know the drill:
Enter the contest by submitting your caption as a comment on this thread (scroll down until you see the “LEAVE A REPLY” box).
Body and Soul‘s writers will vote for the winner.
Any captions proffered by our writers, no matter how brilliant (ha ha), will not be considered.
This contest will be closed at the end of Tuesday, May 16, 2023.
‘To get the contest going, here’s my caption (from Shakespeare’s Macbeth):
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
For the winner of our last Caption Contest, go here.
Our writers dutifully voted for their #1 and #2 captions. Each #1 vote is worth 4 points; each #2 vote us worth 2 points.
And the winner, with two #1 votes and one #1 vote, totaling 10 points, is:
Captain America!
Here’s his caption:
Well, Creepy Uncle Joe just learned a new technique.
In 2nd place are Anonymous and Brain Heinz (each with one #1 vote), and GregB (with two #2 votes), each with 4 points each:
Anonymous: “That’s even less acceptable than ‘pull my finger’– jeez!”
Brain Heinz: “Look, he still had mustard on his face from lunch. I was just grooming, er, I mean cleaning him up.”
GregB: “This looks like the human version of a gecko with his tongue sticking out as he eyes his prey just before he zaps its unaware prey with its tongue and then devours it.”
Vett is in 3rd place, with one #2 vote and 2 points:
About the pic: On April 10, 2023, the Dalai Lama, whom Tibetan Buddhists venerate as a god, issued an apology after a video went viral showing the supposed deity and spiritual leader kissing a young boy on the lips and then asking the child to “suck my tongue” at an event last February in northern India. In a statement saying he “regrets” the incident, the office for the Dalai Lama said he “wishes to apologize to the boy and his family, as well as his many friends across the world, for the hurt his words may have caused,” and that “His Holiness often teases people he meets in an innocent and playful way, even in public and before cameras.”
You know the drill:
Enter the contest by submitting your caption as a comment on this thread (scroll down until you see the “LEAVE A REPLY” box).
Body and Soul‘s writers will vote for the winner.
Any captions proffered by our writers, no matter how brilliant (ha ha), will not be considered.
This contest will be closed at the end of Tuesday, April 25, 2023.
‘To get the contest going, here’s my caption:
The Dalai Lama sucks!
For the winner of our last caption contest, go here.
Our writers dutifully voted for their #1 and #2 captions. Each #1 vote is worth 4 points; each #2 vote us worth 2 points.
And the winner, with two #1 votes and two #2 votes, totaling 12 points, is:
Brian Heinz!
Here’s his caption:
I told you bean casserole not a good idea before the red carpet walk.
Gianni and GregB are in second place, each with one #1 vote and one #2 vote, totaling 6 points each:
Gianni: “Balloon Boy Sidewinder Bait”
GregB: “If he/it starts to levitate off the ground, just shoot it down with a $400,000 sidewinder missile. It might just be a Chinese spy balloon in disguise. You never know, and you don’t want to take any chances.”