The Walking the Berkshires Family Archive Caption Contest is no longer just a prestige event in which the wittiest wags on the web vie for the honor of appending something deliciously droll to an image from my extensive family files. While the honor of the thing is reason enough to let your fancy fly, we now offer an even greater incentive. Though fortune is beyond our means to bestow, fame is another matter, and winners of the Family Archive Caption Contest now are awarded a handsome, custom-made testimonial, suitable for framing, and broadcasting to all and sundry that you and you alone had the winning caption. Regular participants are sure to be strong contenders, but this is anyone's race and this time it could be you! All that is required is an inspired and imaginative caption for this:
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Posted by: GreenmanTim | September 04, 2007 at 02:32 PM
Who won? (To be honest I'll be happy with anyone who posted here. They made me laugh heartily.).
J
Posted by: Janice Brown | September 04, 2007 at 01:33 PM
You know, Janice, I'm not sure but that might explain why he's such a witty fellow
if he has!
Posted by: Bill West | September 02, 2007 at 12:09 AM
Does Chris Dunham have Abbott in his tree also?
Janice
Posted by: Janice Brown | September 01, 2007 at 08:01 PM
I dunno. Chris over on my Dunham side has a sense of humor too, or so I'm told...*grin*
But I definitely detect that Abbott strain in me too!
Posted by: Bill West | August 31, 2007 at 10:16 PM
Undoubtedly! Those genes are neither resessive, nor do they water down after 12 generations.
Posted by: GreenmanTim | August 31, 2007 at 10:30 AM
(this is not an entry)... hey cousin Bill, I am just cracking up reading your entries... it makes me wonder if we get our strange sense of humor from the Abbott side of the family...
Janice
Posted by: Janice Brown | August 31, 2007 at 09:12 AM
ah well..in that case....
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Posted by: Bill West | August 31, 2007 at 02:19 AM
Janice, I'm about to host the History Carnival where multiple submissions are frequently encountered. Unlike there, where we try to limit to one post per author, you are most welcome to keep the captions coming! Lord knows how we'll choose among such great ones this time. Maybe a dart board...
Posted by: GreenmanTim | August 30, 2007 at 11:39 PM
Can we do more than one entry? ... if so this is my 2nd choice.
After his friends remained motionless for 48 hours, Quan Li was horrified to discover that he had used too much starch.
Posted by: Janice Brown | August 30, 2007 at 10:16 PM