Althouse: Caption contest!

September 9, 2014

Caption contest!

81 comments:

Fernandinande said...: "The rumor that the President would veto the bill is reported to have come from a high White Horse souse"; 9/9/14, 12:21 PM
TosaGuy said...: I haven't read David Brooks since he was enthralled about Obama's perfectly creased pants. Has Brook's opinion changed upon seeing Obama's very wrinkled suit?; 9/9/14, 12:26 PM
Original Mike said...: "Mommy voted for this guy???; 9/9/14, 12:26 PM
PackerBronco said...: Behold the future of America under your leadership.; 9/9/14, 12:26 PM
Beta Rube said...: "He said I, Me, Mine like 800 times. He's killing me."; 9/9/14, 12:29 PM
Will said...: Tommy Vietor, get off that couch immediately!! Dude!!; 9/9/14, 12:30 PM
MadisonMan said...: I'm wondering: What's kept in those very nice chests of drawers?

Not a fan of the two paintings. Not enough color variability. I like the woman's summer dress though.; 9/9/14, 12:30 PM
Cheryl said...: I wonder if it smells like stale cigarettes.

What a pussified color scheme. Rust and tan.; 9/9/14, 12:41 PM
Shanna said...: Is it me, or are those drapes really ugly?

The whole room looks drab and sad.; 9/9/14, 12:43 PM
Shanna said...: Except the wallpaper. I like the stripes.; 9/9/14, 12:44 PM
DanTheMan said...: Caption:
"Gerald Ford III visits White House"; 9/9/14, 12:46 PM
SteveR said...: "Not another speech"; 9/9/14, 12:47 PM
Barry Dauphin said...: The president attempts to reassure parents after hooking his drive.; 9/9/14, 12:55 PM
Think said...: Today: "What boy on the couch? There is no boy on the couch."

Next month: "Look, the first time I heard about the boy on the couch was when I read it in the papers, just like the rest of you."; 9/9/14, 1:00 PM
PB said...: I've often wanted to do a face-plant after listening to this guy.; 9/9/14, 1:01 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: "I'm wondering: What's kept in those very nice chests of drawers?"

Under the socks and underwear are the Playboys and the boy band fan fiction.; 9/9/14, 1:02 PM
Scott M said...: Having just been informed that he was being preemptively drafted for more war in the Middle East, young Jeffery collapsed in a fit of apathy.; 9/9/14, 1:03 PM
PB said...: Mommy, Mommy! Please make him stop!; 9/9/14, 1:04 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: In an effort to appear more domestic, Michelle took up knitting, but the crafter demographic appeared unswayed by her photo realistic little boy afghan.; 9/9/14, 1:04 PM
David said...: "Smells Like Sulphur."; 9/9/14, 1:05 PM
DanTheMan said...: "The boy on the couch was left here by the previous administration."; 9/9/14, 1:06 PM
66 said...: "President Explains He Would Have Been Greatest Ever But For Republican Obstructionism While Young Boy Attempts to Suffoccate Self"; 9/9/14, 1:06 PM
66 said...: Suffocate; 9/9/14, 1:07 PM
George M. Spencer said...: Why would the White House release this photo?

The president's back? The face plant? And who are those people?; 9/9/14, 1:07 PM
mccullough said...: Young Boy Performs Gerald Ford Impersonation in Oval Office; 9/9/14, 1:08 PM
Rusty said...: "Thanks for bringing him over. While he's much too young to be director of the Fed, I think he's just right for Secratary of State."; 9/9/14, 1:10 PM
FleetUSA said...: The backside of BH0. What we all want to see.; 9/9/14, 1:11 PM
Irene said...: "Young boy responds to 'stand down' order."; 9/9/14, 1:12 PM
FullMoon said...: President knocks out little boy, MSM ignores; 9/9/14, 1:12 PM
Original Mike said...: @Irene: I like it.; 9/9/14, 1:15 PM
66 said...: " And let me be perfectly clear, once the Republicans stop interfering, I will likewise throw ISIS onto the crushed velour couch of history."; 9/9/14, 1:15 PM
Anonymous said...: "I didn't know he was face down when I sat on him."; 9/9/14, 1:15 PM
Mark Jones said...: "Look, I admit that this robot kid is pretty convincing. But he doesn't look anywhere near old enough to plausibly be of voting age. That's what you promised. I think I'm gonna go with the general amnesty plan."; 9/9/14, 1:17 PM
Irene said...: @Original Mike, Thanks!; 9/9/14, 1:17 PM
66 said...: "Little bastard touches my golf clubs again and there will be more of the same."; 9/9/14, 1:17 PM
Quaestor said...: Six years old, white, male, blond... what's there left to live for?; 9/9/14, 1:21 PM
Anonymous said...: we call him "mini biden"; 9/9/14, 1:22 PM
66 said...: "And that, my friends, is how I took down Osama."; 9/9/14, 1:22 PM
exhelodrvr1 said...: No caption, but I'm sure that TMZ has the video.; 9/9/14, 1:32 PM
Will Cate said...: "Can we goooo now Mommy? This guy's boring."; 9/9/14, 1:41 PM
madAsHell said...: "....and Mommy said that this guys shit doesn't stink!!"; 9/9/14, 1:43 PM
66 said...: "Hey look, Tommy has perfected leading from behind."; 9/9/14, 1:45 PM
Rumpletweezer said...: I asked him what he's doing here, but it turns out he doesn't speak English.; 9/9/14, 1:49 PM
MadisonMan said...: The president's back? The face plant? And who are those people?

Per the caption (click through), former Secret Serviceman and family.; 9/9/14, 1:52 PM
David said...: "Play That Funky Music, White Boy!"; 9/9/14, 1:57 PM
eddie willers said...: If that were Bill Clinton in the picture, I'd have a hundred lines.

With Obama....I got nothing.; 9/9/14, 1:59 PM
David said...: St. George said...
Why would the White House release this photo?

I scrolled through the entire photo stream and had that question over and over.; 9/9/14, 1:59 PM
jacksonjay said...: What's with the gray suit, Swaggy?; 9/9/14, 2:02 PM
Jim said...: Youth passes out after eating a regulation "Let's Move" lunch.; 9/9/14, 2:03 PM
Jim said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 9/9/14, 2:03 PM
Marcus Carman said...: "We're going to be friggin late for our tee time...."; 9/9/14, 2:04 PM
Unknown said...: One is a little man in a world too big for him falling on his face. The other is a kid on a couch.; 9/9/14, 2:14 PM
Anonymous said...: 'Timmy, when I was young and my Mom called me 'Buster,' perhaps I was already thinking how great I would one day become.

You see, I have to make sure activist ideology and racially divisive politics can then be attached to a definition of the 'Middle-Class' and Left-liberal politics. I owe those NPR ladies a lot. We've spent a whole lot of money and made a lot of promises, Timmy.

You see, all this is then spoon-fed to the American public through careful image management, political rhetoric and frankly, a lot of bullshit, Timmy.'

'Go away, Mister'

'You're now part of the Dream machine, Timmy, like you Mom and Dad here.'

'Thank you'; 9/9/14, 2:15 PM
George M. Spencer said...: The two paintings at left?

When I noticed them, I thought, "How sad. How lonely." No majesty. No people.

Both by Hopper and added during Obama's term.

From The White House Blog: "Emblematic examples of his work, the two paintings lent by the Whitney Museum capture the strong sense of atmosphere and light as well as the empty stillness that characterize much of Hopper’s imagery."

The empty stillness.

(In fairness to Obama, other paintings in the Oval Office include portraits of Washington and Lincoln, a Childe Hassam watercolor, a Rockwell rendering of the Statue of Liberty, and a depiction of the Grand Tetons.) Interestingly, the Rockwell painting shows the Statue from the rear. Rather lonely. Aloof.; 9/9/14, 2:20 PM
George M. Spencer said...: Oh, and yes, if you click on the link to the White House Blog, there's a photo of Obama taken from the rear admiring the paintings.; 9/9/14, 2:22 PM
Mountain Maven said...: "Thank God I won't have to hear about !@# POTUS and how much my dad hates him any more!"; 9/9/14, 2:23 PM
Darrell said...: Boy passes out when he learns his share of the debt.; 9/9/14, 2:26 PM
Quaestor said...: lbs 1898 wrote: One is a little man in a world too big for him falling on his face. The other is a kid on a couch.

Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner.; 9/9/14, 2:52 PM
lemondog said...: peeeUUUU!!!!!!!; 9/9/14, 3:12 PM
MzWIsh said...: Response to: "He could be my son!"; 9/9/14, 3:18 PM
John Scott said...: We love you Mr. President but look what Michelle's lunch progam is doing to our son.; 9/9/14, 3:19 PM
Anonymous said...: Duck, Duck, Goose-down throw pillow; 9/9/14, 3:26 PM
jimbino said...: a. I've been thinking, and I finally came up with an alternative to patriation of all those Latino kids.

b. I guess I'd have to blame Michelle's school lunch.

c. I dunno. Last I saw, he was trying to figure out hopey-changey.; 9/9/14, 3:31 PM
MathMom said...: Youth passes out after eating a regulation "Let's Move" lunch.

5 stars.; 9/9/14, 3:38 PM
Bill said...: Don't worry about Chuck Todd. I'll come back after the commercial break.; 9/9/14, 4:13 PM
alan markus said...: Future Daily Kos commenter, AKA "Obama Throne Sniffer"; 9/9/14, 4:15 PM
richard mcenroe said...: "Small child realizes only way to avoid one more second of Obama is to suffocate himself with couch pillow..."; 9/9/14, 4:36 PM
uffda said...: Timmy, having forgotten his hanky, made do.; 9/9/14, 6:43 PM
Anonymous said...: "The only way we can lose this coming election is if we're caught with either this dead boy or a live girl."; 9/9/14, 7:02 PM
Anonymous said...: Disposable taste tester now available in travel size. Visit your local Planned Parenthood while supplies last.; 9/9/14, 7:12 PM
chillblaine said...: Obama reportedly told the youngster what his share of the national debt is. He got a smile from the parents when he remarked, "That doesn't mean we intend to ever pay it down!"; 9/9/14, 7:29 PM
Jaq said...: "Jeesums he won't shut up."; 9/9/14, 7:32 PM
PackerBronco said...: Little kid: jeez don't you people realize he's not wearing any clothes!; 9/9/14, 7:47 PM
Opinh Bombay said...: Timmy, as of 0900 this morning, your share of the national debt is $540,056.23...and rising...Timmy? Timmy?; 9/9/14, 8:00 PM
Unknown said...: "Mommy, you were right! If I close my eyes and breathe, I can still smell the Gipper."; 9/9/14, 8:26 PM
Known Unknown said...: Febreze!; 9/9/14, 9:51 PM
Tom said...: Look, two adults in the Oval Office!; 9/9/14, 9:58 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: Full video to come, later on TMZ.; 9/9/14, 11:47 PM
Mark said...: Regarding the paintings.

Hopper was undoubtedly a fine artist, but his paintings are among the most depressing works I've ever seen. I call them "landscapes for slit wrists."

Does Obama actually spend any time working in that room?; 9/10/14, 7:57 AM
Anonymous said...: "And now, Mr. President, our son will enact how your presidency will be perceived by history."; 9/10/14, 12:11 PM
Unknown said...: "...and the best part is, our KIDS will have to pay for it!"; 9/10/14, 1:42 PM