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Guess the caption

Posted by Dalton48 on 22 Nov 2007 at 03:00 pm | Tagged as: Toronto

8 Responses to “Guess the caption”

1. on 22 Nov 2007 at 7:03 pm   Jeff
   
   

   I think Helicopters do come with special deicing spritzers, but only for themselves. Am so far rather disappointed with the snow, so Toronto, so half hearted. Let us be blanketed. Let the grime be covered up in white powder.

2. on 23 Nov 2007 at 9:54 am   gigantichound
   
   

   Hi, Dalton48 -

   This is a bug in action; there are many in our publishing system. What you are seeing is the cutline for a different-sized image also associated with that story.

3. on 23 Nov 2007 at 11:31 pm   lawgeek
   
   

   Jeff you should come to Ottawa where we have real snow.

4. on 24 Nov 2007 at 8:07 am   Jeff
   
   

   I should!

   Come friendly snow and fall on Toronto!
   It isn’t fit for humans now,
   There isn’t grass to graze a cow.
   Swarm over, Blizzard!

   Come, snow and blanket Toronto with invisibility
   Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
   Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
   Tinned minds, tinned breath.

   Mess up the mess they call a town-
   A condo for ninety-seven k Canadian down
   And once a week a half a loonie, worth US$10.4
   For two thousand years years.

   And get that man with double chin
   Who’ll always cheat and always win,
   Who washes his repulsive skin
   In women’s tears:

   And smash his desk of polished oak
   And smash his hands so used to stroke
   And stop his boring dirty joke
   And make him yell.

   But spare the bald young clerks who add
   The profits of the stinking cad;
   It’s not their fault that they are mad,
   They’ve tasted Hell.

   It’s not their fault they do not know
   The birdsong from the radio,
   It’s not their fault they often go
   To Buffalo to shop.

   And talk of sport and makes of cars
   In various bogus-English Pubs And daren’t look up and see the stars
   But belch instead.

   In labour-saving homes, with care
   They frizz their dogs with peroxide hair
   And dry it in synthetic air
   And paint their nails.

   Come, friendly snow and whitewash TO
   To get it ready for the plough.
   The cabbages are coming now;
   The earth exhales.

   –All apologies to Betjers.

5. on 24 Nov 2007 at 10:48 am   Jeff
   
   

   Gigantichound,

   I don’t quite understand what you mean. Jeff

6. on 26 Nov 2007 at 10:02 am   Techboy
   
   

   I think he means that their editors know more about writing captions than about how their software works.

7. on 28 Nov 2007 at 1:08 pm   gigantichound
   
   

   Kind of like that, yes. An article *should* be able to have different pictures of different sizes associated with it, with all their cutlines kept distinct. That this is not true is still another blemish on an imperfect world, though maybe not one of the more important ones.

8. on 28 Nov 2007 at 1:11 pm   gigantichound
   
   

   Techboy, the software was designed in-house, which seemed like a good idea at the time to the powers that be.