Caption Competition

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:lol: :lol:

Political captions are always great! :-D
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Great topical captions, Courtenay. :lol:


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Hey, they weren't my captions — they were Anita's and Shadow's. I can't take any credit!! :wink:
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Courtenay wrote:Hey, they weren't my captions — they were Anita's and Shadow's. I can't take any credit!! :wink:
My apologies to Anita and Shadow. :oops: Your captions really brought a smile to my face. :D
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Any more? I'll pick a winner sometime tomorrow. :-D
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Well - as its been over a week now, I should announce the winner! :-)

I always like Political captions, and the one I liked best was shadow's --

shadow wrote:Even at school Theresa was strong and stable but often fell over at the end.
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Well done shadow! Over to you! :-D
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A well-deserved win — well done, Shadow. :wink:
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I can't believe I won the battle of the political captions!

Here's the next one from Benjy and the others

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'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
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Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
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(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)



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