It’s kooky caption competition time. Tired of seeing the countless photos of anonymous traders the papers trot out to illustrate tales of market madness? Ever wondered what these agitated men were really thinking? Here’s your chance to amuse and amaze us.
Caption the following photos 1-12 (First Dog’s had a crack at a couple just to give you the idea). We’ll pick our faves and give the best five complete caption sets a Sarah Palin Moose dressing tea-towel and a set of First Dog US Campaign Badges. Send your captions to boss@crikey.com.au with “meltdown” in the subject field.
1. “I’m gonna wash that crash right outta my hair.”
2. Tell the Rabbi no, I will NOT let him sell on Shabbat!!
3. There aren’t age limits for hairdressing apprenticeships, are there?
4. I KNOW it’s my toddler’s phone you idiot, I had to sell mine!!
5. Hey! If I lean this way the graph goes UP.
6. Damn Tuna Carpaccio, repeats on me every time..
7. Gentlemen, that may well be the last dimsum lunch we get in a while…
8. Hey guys, I’m finding it VERY hard to go to my happy place with all this shouting!!
9. My corneas, I can’t believe I’m gonna have to sell my corneas…
10. If I can just get a good price for the kids, we should be okay.
11. Ohhh..BUY low and SELL high, damn….
12. Damn Senate, here’s another fine mess you’ve gotten us into.
#4 Sell Apple! Buy Fisher-Price!
#5 Why is it so?
#11 “… and then Mr Paulson touched me right here, and said, ‘Go thou, and sin no more.'”
# 4 – my Ferrari is worth how much?
# 7 – you mean I am Asian?
# 10 – Mom, I have something terrible to tell you – no, worse, I am a stockbroker ….
No.5: Larry David manages to curb his enthusiasm.
Here are my lame ideas when is this getting a run in the daily crikey
No.1: Oh no that’s Belinda Neale coming to my club for dinner
No.2: Which idiot let a member of the Australian Democrat’s onto the trading floor
No.5: Ahhh crap, my portfolio has taken a massive haircut (and a polish as well)
No.8: Alexander Downer’s karaoke career continues undiminished by the financial calamity
No.9: Alexander Downer’s karaoke career continues undiminished by the financial calamity
No.10: I can’t believe people trusted their money to a guy with a Ronald McDonald walkie talkie either
No.12: Swallowing Lehman Brothers caused terrible indigestion