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Caption Challenge: Special “We’ve Gone and Taken Our Jackets Off – Your Move, Economic Crisis!” Edition

The winner shall receive a $40-billion budgetary shortfall (Actual prize probably something nicer)

by Scott Feschuk on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:28pm - 124 Comments

Wherry has already mentioned the photo op that led to this not-at-all awkward portrait of “Shirtsleevery in a Time of Crisis,” so let us (ie. me) not dwell.

Instead, let us (ie. you) simply come up with a caption that is equal parts hilarious comedy and penetrating insight – or at least one that marvels at the sheer number of inanimate props handed out for the occasion (documents, a coffee cup, Jim Flaherty).

As befits the occasion, the winner shall receive a $40-billion budgetary shortfall. What a precious heirloom to pass down to your children and your children’s children! (Actual prize probably something nicer.)

Tags: budget09, caption contest, economic crisis, Jim Flaherty, Stephen Harper

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Darcy

Chuckles and awkwardness greet the prime minister’s fart.
Sam

“Is it just me, or does this budget smell like shit?”
Cole

Stockwell Day: “You think with all this money being thrown around we could have gotten better coffee!”
Sarah

Stage one of the world’s worst game of “Show me yours…”
J@ck M!tchell

Harper: “Hey, photoshop me back outta here!”
http://AOL Paul Downey

“Short straw flys the test plane” By the look on all their faces,this looks like the question at hand.
http://AOL Paul Downey

“If this does not work who can we blame ?”
http://notquiteunhinged.blogspot.com Catelli

Ah Geez Jim, did you have to eat the burrito at lunch? The doors closed and its already stifling in here!
catherine

Scott: why did you post this cropped picture? Wasn’t the whole point of having the two women perched on booster seats, elevated above all the seated men, to show of their legs, as their skirts rode up? You wouldn’t have seen Lisa’s thighs at all if she had been standing or sitting on at the men’s level.

http://www.macleans.ca/feschuk Scott Feschuk

i didn’t actually post the picture this way. as a renowned thigh enthusiast, i put it up sans crop.

Stu

Harper and his cabal at the first meeting of “the Bankrupters of Canada”. Future historians point to this bathroom stall meeting as the first event that triggered the end of the nation of Canada
http://www.calgarygrit.ca Calgary Grit

The Harper Cabinet learn that interacting normally with other humans is harder than the instruction manuals make it out to be.

Shenping

My fave.
Mike T.

other?

Shenping

“Hey, can Parliament get a tax credit for the new energy efficient furnace we installed in here? It’s January, it’s so warm we had to take off our jackets, and we’re still saving money.”
Mike T.

“We need to shift attention away from the economic climate. Stock, can you make any more unfounded accusations of pedophilia?”
Big Daddy

Harper: “Wait, you are saying all these people are in my cabinet”

or

Harper: “Allright Flaherty, here is your budget. Go out there and read it as if you wrote it.”
SAB

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper pauses for reflection with his colleagues after finalizing the sale of his soul. Jim Flaherty, the Devil’s attorney, smiles after signing the contract.
http://www.macleans.ca/feschuk Scott Feschuk

Welcome to the Macleans.ca Caption Challenge – Official Home of the Fart Joke!

Lots of good entries in there: honorable mentions to Quinn, Christopher Thrall, Ian, kc and Claude.

A close runnerup was Calgary Grit (“The Harper Cabinet learn that interacting normally with other humans is harder than the instruction manuals make it out to be.”) I liked that one.

But I’m going to have to go with the entry that made me laugh out loud: “Coffee is for closers only, Day.”

Well played, Mike T.

Flip me an email at sfeschuk@sympatico.ca and I’ll dispatch your prize via the mighty power of the interweb. No, it’s not a Cadillac Eldorado. (It’s not even the steak knives.)
DP

Flaherty is thinking:

“I know Mike Harris. I worked with Mike Harris. He may look like him, but he ain’t no Mike Harris.”
PWW

Harper (smiling/grimacing): “Who forgot the shovels and hard hats?”
Flaherty (smirking): “Not me sir!”
Raitt (to herself): “He can’t make put a hard hat over this glorious hair, can he?”
Finlay: “Sir, I brought the documents!”
Day (to himself)” “Oh oh… I thought coffee mugs!”
Dennis Van S

Suddenly, Stockwell Day realizes he left he left his best hairpiece in his OTHER pants. (see placement of left hand)
Ryan

Prime Minister Harper introduced his plan to save taxpayer money in light of the economic downturn, by cutting his ministers’ suit jacket allowances. Following the meeting Stockwell Day told reporters “thank god I rode that jet skit otherwise this would be my economic mess.”
Little_Johnny

Okay. Heads, “The fundamentals of our economy are strong”, tails “Today we meet at a time of unprecedented economic uncertainty”. Who wants to flip this time?
Darden Cavalcade

Each is thinking, “How can I enter private industry with my reputation intact?”
Stephen Wahl

To the tune of Tommy Roe song, ‘Where or Where Can My Baby Be’

Well, where oh where can my budget be?
The Opposition took it away from me
It’s going to Committee so I gotta be good;
So I can pass my budget when I leave this room
Steve

Caption: While the Prime Minister considers his reaction to the rumour that Michael Ignatieff has launched off his “fuzzy red sweater” publicity campaign, minor government officials watch closely to learn what their own reactions will be. The one at the back left thinks he already knows.
Jonathan

It’s not funny, Jim. Many prime ministers have suffered from the heartbreak of nervous flatulence.