Monday Caption Challenge No. 3

Your turn to make Scott Feschuk laugh

by Scott Feschuk on Sunday, December 13, 2009 6:27am - 75 Comments

For logistics-based reasons, I’m posting the Monday challenge on Sunday. As you read this, please be advised that it is NOT Monday – unless you are reading this on Monday, in which case please be advised that Couples Retreat is NOT a good movie.

The challenge, as always: To regard the assigned photograph – of famed Olympian Barbara Ann Scott having the cheek to spark up a Cheech-grade doobie smack in the middle of the House of Commons, and boy doesn’t Jim Flaherty in particular look delighted at this unexpected turn of events – and devise within your mind a caption of such astonishing insight and/or hilarity that grown men the world over have no choice but to tip their fedoras in your general direction and say something along the lines of “Indeed!” or “Very much so!”

Finalists will be announced Tuesday morning, followed by voting, followed by the victor being rewarded with a $30 gift certificate from Amazon.ca (all part of my foolproof plan to subtly nudge Amazon.ca into sponsoring this challenge, or alternately to drive Heather Reisman into such a bubbling rage of jealousy that Chapters steps in and does it instead), followed by widespread grouching that the wrong entry won, followed by me not caring.

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  • Curt

    As I said in the Senate yesterday, anybody need a light for their joint?

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/lgarvin lgarvin

    Don't…. Bo-gart that joint… my friend.
    Pass it over… to me.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/sea_n_mountains sea_n_mountains

    Harper: I'll be damned if I'm paying more than a billion dollars in restoration costs… Flaherty is the insurance paid?

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/SamDavies SamDavies

    Barbara Ann Scott – Canada's very own Guy Fawkes!!

    "Remember, remember, the tenth of December
    The Gunpowder Treason and plot ;
    I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason
    Should ever be forgot.
    Barb Scott, Barb Scott,
    
'Twas her intent.
    
To blow up Harper and the Parliament.

    Three score barrels of powder below.
    
Poor old Canada to overthrow.

    By God's providence she was catch'd,

    With a dark lantern and burning match."

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/SamDavies SamDavies

    Barbara Ann Scott – Canada's very own Guy Fawkes!!
    "Remember, remember, the tenth of December
    The Gunpowder Treason and plot ;
    I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason
    Should ever be forgot.
    Barb Scott, Barb Scott,
    'Twas her intent.
    To blow up Harper and the Parliament.
    Three score barrels of powder below.
    Poor old Canada to overthrow.
    By God's providence she was catch'd,
    With a dark lantern and burning match."

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Tceh Tceh

    "The first one who tries to take the fire stick away from me gets the whole flaming mess right up the a s s"

  • Mike T.

    [House Speaker, two minutes later:]

    The honourable member has proposed adjournment and orderly exit from the, quote, rapidly smoke-filling deathtrap, unquote. Do I have a seconder?…All in favour…motion carried."

  • Mike T.

    [overheard in the press gallery]:

    -"Awesome you rejigged the torch route to go right through the House floor."

    -"That's nothing. The next guy runs it right through Duceppe's salle de bains."

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Crit_Reasoning Crit_Reasoning

    "Mr. Prime Minister, Honourable MPs, I'm so thrilled to carry the torch in the House of Commons. It brings back many happy memories. In fact, I haven't been surrounded by this much 'flying camel spin' since Dick Buttons invented the manoeuvre in 1948."

  • Blues Clair

    Tony Clement, Pong wizard.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/GeoffM GeoffM

    I love the smell of GHG in the morning!

  • anglophone

    "Although few observers were surprised that the Canadian populace had finally decided to burn down their unwieldy and ineffectual house of government, they were not expecting its inhabitants to applaud their own fiery deaths."

    Alternatively: "This room hasn't seen something so flaming since Sven Robinson left town."

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/SamDavies SamDavies

    Barbara Ann Scott – Canada's very own Guy Fawkes!!

    "Remember, remember, the tenth of December
    The Gunpowder Treason and plot ;
    I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason
    Should ever be forgot.
    Barb Scott, Barb Scott,
    
'Twas her intent.
    
To blow up Harper and the Parliament.

    Three score barrels of powder below.
    
Poor old Canada to overthrow.

    By God's providence she was catch'd,

    With a dark lantern and burning match."

    • Peggy DTs

      AHA! Someone with talent, finally ….

  • kcm

    BAS: " So let this be a warning to you, if you make me come back in here again i'll bring the bloody flamethrower".

  • kcm

    BAS: " What do you mean the olympic torch shouldn't be in here…i could have sworn i saw a notice saying CPoC this way!

  • Dee

    John Baird looks for the exit after realizing he is the most flammable cabinet minister available.

  • Anon Liberal

    Hedy Fry: 'torches are burning right in Parliament…as we speak!'

  • J Wiedrick

    "As winter mercilessly took its toll and the temperature inside the Little House plummeted, nobody on the Prairies believed in global warming anymore; but Lloyd Robertson's granddaughter had an invention that just might help." Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • Joking! Only Joking!

    It was only a matter of time after Svend Robinson retired from federal politics, that another flamer joined the House of Commons.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/s_c_f s_c_f

    Al Gore may have invented the internet, but look at this thing we call "fire".

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/s_c_f s_c_f

    Let's have some applause for medical marijuana!

  • kcm

    Ok i just heard the pilot light has gone out in this place…which way to the democratic boiler room?

  • Jason G.

    Duuude, you're getting a run in it.!

    -or-

    So this is, you called it, heart-warming?

  • Alan

    Greenpeace activist attempts to burn down Parliament. Conservatives seen cheering.

  • kcm

    Show and tell:

    A hands on demonstration to the Conservative bench of man's evolutionary progression

    …chpt 1. The discovery of fire.

    …cht 2. Were dinosaurs or Conservatives around 6 thousand years ago?

    • kcm

      Ah…Jarrid must have been by.

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