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September 14, 2003
A Game of Inches

OK boys and girls, it's time once again to play "caption that photo!" Submit your entries in the comments section and you'll have a chance to win tonight's grand prize -- an all-expenses-paid trip to Camp X-Ray on beautiful Guantanamo Bay! (sorry: jumpsuits, leg cuffs and sedative injections are extra.)

Few will enter, but many will win!

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Update 9/14 11:00 PM ET: OK, we have some winners.

1st Place:
"C is for Cheney, that's good enough for me.
"C is for Cheney, that's good enough for me.
"C is for Cheney, that's good enough for me.
Oh Cheney Cheney Cheney starts with C."
Norbizness

2nd Prize:
"So I turned the dial up a little more,
and now smoke is coming out of his ears."
deminva

Honorable Mention:
"Tim, I'm asking you for the last time....IS IT SAFE?"
libertas

"Give me the location of the rebel base, Admiral."
ChrisL
(Or how about: "I find your lack of faith disturbing, Admiral Russert.")

"Redrum! Redrum!"
Stanton
(or how about: "Dicky isn't here, Mr. Russert.")

Posted by billmon at September 14, 2003 08:26 PM
Comments

"Whereas George's is this big!"

Posted by: at September 14, 2003 08:29 PM

"Then I wrapped my hand around George's scrawny little neck like so and said 'what do you mean you want to start telling the truth?'"

Posted by: Mark H at September 14, 2003 08:33 PM

Bartender, make mine Maker's Mark, and pour this much.

Posted by: Louise at September 14, 2003 08:34 PM

lynnie-pooh came this close to giving me a hummer last night....

Posted by: tim at September 14, 2003 08:35 PM

"well, tim, i have to confess that i haven't actually seen my penis in years but, if i remember correctly, the old boy is about like that."

Posted by: phillip at September 14, 2003 08:41 PM

"You'd be a miserable old bastard too, if yours was only this big!"

Posted by: JMFeeney (USA) at September 14, 2003 08:42 PM

"First you twist their balls clockwise, then you keep twisting and twisting - THAT'S how you get a no-bid contract."

Posted by: reef the dog at September 14, 2003 08:46 PM

Tim, I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven’t had now for over three years. They simply slip a stack of 100s about this thick through the mailslot every Saturday morning, that's it.

Posted by: libertas at September 14, 2003 08:49 PM

Redrum! Redrum!

Posted by: Stanton at September 14, 2003 08:51 PM

Listen, you anti-american crybabies, you're this close to landing yourself in gitmo. Is that clear?

--

...and then I cocked my Glock and said "Hey Saddam, get your filthy hands off my fucking oil!"

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If i turn the knob this way, the left side of my mouth goes up!

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My heart is this big.

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Give me the location of the rebel base, Admiral.

Posted by: ChrisL at September 14, 2003 08:53 PM

"Vee have vays of making you talk!"

Posted by: Gestapo at September 14, 2003 08:55 PM

"So I turned the dial up a little more, and now smoke is coming out of his ears."

Posted by: deminva at September 14, 2003 08:56 PM

"Look, I may have told a few lies now and then, but they were only this big..."

Posted by: nearpass at September 14, 2003 08:59 PM

I swear the little Weasel is about this far from losing it.

Posted by: libertas at September 14, 2003 09:00 PM

"Billmon, we need a guy like YOU on the PNAC payroll to help get our message out to the American public, and we have a wad of C-notes THIS THICK just sitting here for you... so whaddya say? gimme a call, okay, Billmon?"

Posted by: glenstonecottage at September 14, 2003 09:02 PM

Tim, I'm asking you for the last time....IS IT SAFE?

Posted by: libertas at September 14, 2003 09:02 PM

Is it safe?

Posted by: Billmon at September 14, 2003 09:03 PM

Our deficit knob goes to eleven.

Posted by: Evan Allen at September 14, 2003 09:05 PM

"I'm crushing your head! I'm crushing your head!"

Posted by: Loki at September 14, 2003 09:15 PM

Our lies about WMD and Iraq's connection to 9/11 were only this big.

Posted by: TechnoPeasant at September 14, 2003 09:17 PM

Our lies about WMD and Iraq's connection to 9/11 were only this big.

Posted by: TechnoPeasant at September 14, 2003 09:17 PM

Getting away with it? Missed it by THAT much!

Posted by: kherr at September 14, 2003 09:19 PM

Tim, then you lift your finger off the little hole in the bong and breathe in all of the smoke. It really cuts the harsh, dude, you gotta try.

Posted by: at September 14, 2003 09:20 PM

I have seen pictures of Arnold's penis on the Internet and mine is this much shorter...

Posted by: TechnoPeasant at September 14, 2003 09:20 PM

I have seen pictures of Arnold's penis on the Internet and mine is this much longer...

Posted by: TechnoPeasant at September 14, 2003 09:22 PM

"C" is for Cheney, that's good enough for me.
"C" is for Cheney, that's good enough for me.
"C" is for Cheney, that's good enough for me.
Oh Cheney Cheney Cheney starts with "C".

Any follow-up questions, Timmy? Right, I'm out of here, you pasty shitbag. See you in six months.

Posted by: Norbizness at September 14, 2003 09:26 PM

[GAO] "Comptroller General David Walker, I am crushing your head! "

Posted by: Trillian at September 14, 2003 09:29 PM

i need a new heart, it is your duty. come on now, national security. do you have a twenty something? it will be painless and heh I'll give some of that chocolate from iraq in payment. come on, i am running out of time.

Posted by: ralphy boy at September 14, 2003 09:30 PM

"Come on, Tim, it'll be fun, I'll crush your little head!"

Thank you, "Kids in the Hall."

Posted by: gfyfe at September 14, 2003 09:32 PM

Is this how you make the 'Loser' sign?

Posted by: MaxDProphet at September 14, 2003 09:41 PM

We're teaching this to all the soldiers in Iraq. It's an old Islamic gesture that either means:

"Get the fuck away from my oil!

or

"Your camel's ass is turning me on!"

I can't keep them straight.

Posted by: TheOaf at September 14, 2003 09:48 PM

explaining his trigger finger?

Posted by: J Bradley Johnson at September 14, 2003 09:48 PM

"So you take the truth and twist it like this."

Posted by: mike in pr at September 14, 2003 09:51 PM

"Just between you and me, Tim -- 'cause we're guys -- when it's only this big you have to start a war or two to compensate, y'know what I mean?"

Posted by: Swopa at September 14, 2003 09:54 PM

I call it the "War" sign.

Posted by: Billmon at September 14, 2003 09:57 PM

"Um, no, that's when it's hard."

"See the vial in my right hand? It contains a superconcentrated nuclear bio-chemical weapon of mass destruction we found in one of Saddam's palaces. Oh, well, only the pure in heart can see it."

Posted by: at September 14, 2003 09:59 PM

Cheney is at the punchline of his favorite joke about the difference between a sorority girl and a bowling ball.

Posted by: at September 14, 2003 10:03 PM

Cheney is at the punchline of his favorite joke about the difference between a sorority girl and a bowling ball.

(Sorry, forgot to enter name and URL...)

Posted by: Rick in Davis at September 14, 2003 10:04 PM

"Just today, we've spent a stack of $1MM bills this thick in Iraq. I took a cut myself - brokering the deal and all."

Posted by: adrian at September 14, 2003 10:13 PM

we're this close to stealing, er I mean pumping some oil.

Posted by: Shaun at September 14, 2003 10:28 PM

Mmmmmmm.... Live rats!

Posted by: defaultcitizen at September 14, 2003 10:30 PM

I try to keep my eyes open this wide, because when they're closed, I see dead people...

Posted by: at September 14, 2003 10:40 PM

Oil? No. Liberation? No. Bechtel? No. The whole damn thing is about alcohol sales, Tim. You know, depress the left, who are alcoholics anyways, and up goes the [gestures) glug glug!

Posted by: hamstak at September 14, 2003 10:45 PM

Lynne's nipples get this big when I talk about how m uch money we'll be getting from Halliburton!

Posted by: Charles2 at September 14, 2003 10:47 PM

There's not much to do down in the cave, so Osama and I sometimes do shadow puppets. This, for example, is you, Tim.

Posted by: Bob at September 14, 2003 11:02 PM

"I don't want you to talk, Governor Dean, I just want you to die."

Posted by: Lupin at September 14, 2003 11:10 PM

"I have this much credibility left... and I'll be damned if I leave this studio with any of it!"

Posted by: Brian J. at September 14, 2003 11:10 PM

I don't get the "is it safe" one. Color me stupid.

Posted by: DavidNYC (now in DC) at September 14, 2003 11:25 PM

I'm squishing your head. Like a small arab child.

Posted by: Gastrocentric at September 14, 2003 11:28 PM

"I don't get the "is it safe" one. Color me stupid." Lawrence Olivier in "Marathon Man," before he drills big holes in all of Dustin Hoffman's teeth.

Posted by: deminva at September 14, 2003 11:30 PM

"You just grip one by the neck like this, and voila a 'liberated, flower throwing Iraqi"

Posted by: mcp at September 14, 2003 11:51 PM

I don't get the "is it safe" one. Color me stupid.

Not stupid. Unschooled in 27 year old movies is all. See Marathon Man. Laurence Olivier plays the scary dude in this one. Later Olivier played the good guy to Gregory Peck's scary dude in The Boys from Brazil. Neither performance up to his Shakespeare roles. Marathon Man is worth a look though, if only to get the reference.

Or maybe the reference was to Ian McKellan's Gandalf? Naaaah. Gandalf is the Good Guy. Unlike our boy Dick.

Posted by: Steve Jones at September 14, 2003 11:57 PM

I don't get the "is it safe" one. Color me stupid.

Not stupid. Unschooled in 27 year old movies is all. See Marathon Man. Laurence Olivier plays the scary dude in this one. Later Olivier played the good guy to Gregory Peck's scary dude in The Boys from Brazil. Neither performance up to his Shakespeare roles. Marathon Man is worth a look though, if only to get the reference.

Or maybe the reference was to Ian McKellan's Gandalf? Naaaah. Gandalf is the Good Guy. Unlike our boy Dick.

Posted by: Steve Jones at September 14, 2003 11:57 PM

Sorry for the stutter.

Posted by: Steve Jones at September 14, 2003 11:59 PM

Man, was there some memo about what to do with your hands on TV? Check this out.

Posted by: Patrick Berry at September 15, 2003 12:29 AM

Thanks for the help. But why specifically is Olivier asking Hoffman if it's safe?

Posted by: DavidNYC (now in DC) at September 15, 2003 12:37 AM

Honorable Mention:
"Tim, I'm asking you for the last time....IS IT SAFE?"
libertas

My personal favorite. Good Marathon Man reference.

My entry:

"Let me show you my 'Quart of Blood' technique. Do that and a quart of blood will drop out a person's body."

Posted by: kdub at September 15, 2003 12:44 AM

David,

Olivier has smuggled a shitload of diamonds out of Nazi Germany. Dustin Hoffman's brother - Roy Scheider, an American (and Jewish) spook, is onto him; Olivier kills Scheider. Hoffman watches his brother die in agony. Hoffman seeks and finds the link between his brother's death and Olivier, the ex-Nazi dentist (a play on Doctor Mengele). Olivier kidnaps Hoffman, and fires up his dental drill. Asking Hoffman, "Is it safe?" Hoffman (correctly) pleads ignorance. Olivier drills into Hoffman's perfectly healthy teeth, without anaesthesia. As Hoffman continues to plead ignorance, between screams, Olivier contiues the torture, then applies clove oil to the damage he's done, much to Hoffman's relief, asking again, "Is it safe?"

Hoffman secures the diamonds through devious means. In the end, of course, Hoffman turns the tables on Olivier, scattering the diamonds into the New York City sewer system, then plants a round in Olivier's abdomen, leaving him to die horribly.

Revenge; a dish best served cold, is the moral of this, and many other, movies.

Hope this helps.

Posted by: Steve Jones at September 15, 2003 01:34 AM

Asking Hoffman, "Is it safe?" Hoffman (correctly) pleads ignorance.

Meaning, "Is it safe for me to go and pick up the diamonds?"

Sorry - left that part out.

Posted by: Steve Jones at September 15, 2003 01:45 AM

"Tim, the reason why we haven't any WMDs is that we have a reliable source that tells us Saddam managed to have them miniaturized till they were this small ...

Now you understand the trouble we're having finding them, don't you?"

Posted by: at September 15, 2003 01:50 AM

"sorry, you've got a little something in your eye, here, let uncle cheney..."

Posted by: bryan at September 15, 2003 02:16 AM

"...then I put all the pieces in a big glass jar and top it up with alcohol--vodka works fine--and then I screw the lid on really really tight..."

Posted by: TheBrewmaster at September 15, 2003 03:11 AM

"We have evidence. See ? That's one of Saddam's virtual WMDs."

Posted by: superdupont at September 15, 2003 03:47 AM

No, really, Timmy.
The e-mail from Halliburton said 3 - 5 inches, nearly overnight, if we invaded. We invaded, I think they lied to me. I just don't understand why they lied about something so important.

Posted by: Marisacat at September 15, 2003 04:06 AM

I'm this close to being preznit.

Posted by: moeman at September 15, 2003 08:52 AM

Tim, YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

Posted by: couldntresist at September 15, 2003 09:14 AM

and Mr. O'Reilly has his head this far up my ass!

Posted by: vokr at September 15, 2003 10:21 AM

Look, Freud was right about one thing. I mean, if your penis is this big, Tim, then you simply HAVE TO start a war and kill thousands if not millions of innocent people in order to show Joe six-pack your the boss. Sure, people will say I'm lying or deceiving or whatever, but in the end they'll say, 'At least he's got balls.'

Posted by: argenti at September 15, 2003 11:03 AM

"You can't actually see it, but I'm holding Saddam's most powerful WMD."

Posted by: Swoosh at September 15, 2003 11:04 AM

I'm a size 8 leg iron. I wanna be sedated!

Posted by: Norbizness at September 15, 2003 11:21 AM

"My nizzles on the hizzle call me C-Murda, bee-otch..."

Posted by: abellsmith at September 15, 2003 11:54 AM

I'm a big Vice President and I need a big cereal.

Posted by: Tony at September 15, 2003 04:17 PM

That's how much you can trust me Tim.

Posted by: Daryl at September 15, 2003 05:15 PM

I swear, we're thisclose to finding the WMDs.

Posted by: Patience at September 15, 2003 06:02 PM

Tim, we want you to bend over just this much more.

Posted by: erik k at September 15, 2003 06:35 PM

Since when does the Vice President of the US wear a cheap, $.60 Flag Pin?

Posted by: p mac at September 15, 2003 09:46 PM

"Sooo 'K?"
"Sa-right!"

Posted by: Not Ed Meese at September 15, 2003 11:34 PM

FREE PALESTINE

(no - this comment has nothing to do with the photo of Dick being obnoxious...)

Posted by: Anthony at September 16, 2003 01:44 AM

"This is my Give-A-Shit button. You lift the lid and I'll show you I givvashit."

(Honors to my brother for that one, 25 years ago)

Posted by: zaphod at September 23, 2003 04:13 PM