BS: Cataclysm ... your caption

Subject: BS: Cataclysm ... your caption
From: Alice
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 11:06 AM

cat-a-clysm. -noun 1.any violent upheaval, esp. one of a social or political nature.

Subject: RE: BS: Cataclysm ... your caption
From: Amos
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 11:20 AM

Funny!

BTW, I think we would be well served by having ONE "Your Caption for this Picture" thread instead of a new one every time someone finds a cute JPEG to prompt captions with. My reasoning is simple. I have been connected to the web and the internet since the early 1990's, and in that time I have seen 57,389 cute pictures of the osrt that could be used in mixed company for this sort of thing. If you add off-color ones, 3.4 million.

Given that the Mudcat wanders readily back and forth across the line between local color and off-color, that means we are contemplating, over the coming years, about half a million threads by rough estimate dedicated to thinking up funny captions for clever pictures.

That's more than the whole Mudcat had in the first ten years of its existence. ANd only marginally related to any sort of music at all, and even arguably only second class BS to boot--like comparing headline-writing with journalism or Hemingway.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Cataclysm ... your caption
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 12:23 PM

As you can see from the graph children, the mouse poulation is still on the rise!

Subject: RE: BS: Cataclysm ... your caption
From: topical tom
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 04:05 PM

My god, their predictions are so far out it's catastrophic!

Subject: RE: BS: Cataclysm ... your caption
From: topical tom
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 04:07 PM

It's going to take all of our nine lives to repair this mess.

Subject: RE: BS: Cataclysm ... your caption
From: topical tom
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 04:09 PM

Omigawd, you have to read this right to left!

Subject: RE: BS: Cataclysm ... your caption
From: Alice
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 06:04 PM

The people who have fun with the caption threads have PM'd me to keep them the same as they have been. If they are in one thread, no one would know which image someone would be referring to or when a new image would be added or just another caption.
In other words, it would not work as one thread.
It brings pleasure to a lot of people who like it just the way it is and have PM'd me to let me know.

Subject: RE: BS: Cataclysm ... your caption
From: paula t
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 06:21 PM

"Can You see what it is yet?"

Subject: RE: BS: Cataclysm ... your caption
From: Alice
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 07:12 PM

Mom cat alarmed at the rising cost of Meow Mix and kitty litter.

Subject: RE: BS: Cataclysm ... your caption
From: michaelr
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 08:59 PM

I'll go Amos one better and suggest that cute pictures are best dealt with in private, i.e. email them to those of your friends who will let you (and I won't)

As for posting them on Mudcat, I think it's a waste of bandwidth and server capacity.

Subject: RE: BS: Cataclysm ... your caption
From: Genie
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 12:21 PM

"Wow! The mouse that left those tracks must've gotten into the rum cake!"








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PS
Re "bandwidth," I don't see how the picture caption threads "waste" any more of it than the myriad other BS threads do.   : )

Subject: RE: BS: Cataclysm ... your caption
From: Amos
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 12:34 PM

It is not as though we were posting the pictures themselves on the Cat's server, so the threads are just text strings like any other thread.

Hey, if folks want them, knock yourselves out. I don't go for them myself.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Cataclysm ... your caption
From: topical tom
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 05:42 PM

To each his own, right?(as long as it's not hurtful or mean-spirited)

Subject: RE: BS: Cataclysm ... your caption
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 05:49 PM

If we'd been shown this earlier we could have told them to expect a recession!

Subject: RE: BS: Cataclysm ... your caption
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 05:52 PM

No, it isn't upside down.

Subject: RE: BS: Cataclysm ... your caption
From: van lingle
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 07:25 PM

"What did I tell you, kids? Catnip is recession-proof!"

Subject: RE: BS: Cataclysm ... your caption
From: Alice
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 08:06 PM

home schooling the kiddies
on graph theory

Subject: RE: BS: Cataclysm ... your caption
From: Alice
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 08:15 PM

FUN WITH CHARTS!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Cataclysm ... your caption
From: topical tom
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 10:33 PM

LOL Very funny, Alice!

Subject: RE: BS: Cataclysm ... your caption
From: Genie
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 02:33 AM

Wonderful site, Alice! LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Cataclysm ... your caption
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 06:17 AM

I can't wait for playtime; this is boring.

Bar charts are easier, especially the M & M ones - they are so easy to change! LOL

Do we have to do statistics, we've got ages to go before GCSE?