Cartoon Caption Contest, 04 May 2008

 


















This one received so many good entries that
the judges had a hard time deciding on the winner.
We narrowed the funny captions down to four:

"Principal Lee? You want volunteers to test
if the HFMD vaccine for children really works?
Only 3 jabs, ah?"
- Tham Yew Kong

"Oh really? Minimum age to enter NS has dropped
to 10?"
- Asmawati Saimon

"Is this Singapore Idol hotline? I can audition
over the phone? Okay, here I go..."
- Allan Tan

And this is the winning entry:
"Okay! I’m taking my son to the dentist now,
don’t want him to have four teeth like me!"
- Low Dewei

Your foot!

To find out what is your feet type, wet your feet
then step onto a dry surface to get an imprint.
Now compare it with these diagrams...

There are two kinds of flat feet -- anatomical and functional.
People with anatomically flat feet are born with them.
Those with functional flat feet, however, have a natural
walking gait that causes the feet to flatten out or
'pronate' totally when they walk. This causes strain to the
feet and can lead to ligament and knee injuries.

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Feet pronate a little during each step and this acts as
a natural shock absorber.

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Feet’s anatomy is naturally arched and the feet do not
flatten out during walking so the feet do not help to
absorb shocks. Hence shocks are transmitted to rest
of the body and this can lead to pain and aches.

Golf Mafia

[Published on 8 March, 1998]

At least two golf clubs are fed up with the Mafia, a betting format
which prohibits the taking of a free drop - even those permitted
by local rules. Therefore, if a sprinkler head or young plant is
in their swing path, these golfers still let fly. Similarly,
Ground Under Repair signs, cart paths and buggies are ignored.

With big bets at stake, the Mafia golfers are not prepared to take
a penalty drop.

Said one club general manager: "What we have to do is to circulate
the names of the Mafia clowns to all clubs and impose an
island-wide ban. Perhaps they don't realise the damage that
they are doing with their selfish bets."

Squeezed to the last drop

[Published on 26 Jan, 1998]

Economy is bad, and pomelo sellers in Chinatown said they were
being squeezed. Prices of pomeloes had to be cut by as much as
50 per cent to attract buyers. Yet customers were still not tempted.

"We have about 40 per cent less business this year," a stall-owner
said in Mandarin. Some of the smaller pomeloes at his stall were
going for $2, when they had cost $4 last year.

Sale of safes up

[Published on 1 Feb, 1998]

Jitters in Japan over collapsed financial institutions
have caused a mini-boom in one sector of the economy:

The country's domestic safe makers are reporting a surge
in sales as worried investors withdraw money from banks
to keep it at home. The surge started when two large
financial institutions, Hokkaido Takushoku Bank and
Yamaichi Securities, collapsed.

On your marks, get set, think!

[Published on 18 Aug, 1997]

The world of competitive sport faces a new breed of athlete -
the mental gymnast - vying for gold at the first Mind Sports
Olympiad, a week of brain games that opens in London today.

Instead of slugging it out in the boxing ring or tumbling
across padded floormats, competitors perform intellectual
acrobatics in events ranging from speed reading to computer
programming and crossword puzzles to the more traditional
chess and checkers.

More than 1,500 people have signed up to take part in the
Olympiad, which is open to anyone wanting to test his or
her cranial capacity - and spend a week playing games.


CHESS AND CHECKERS

MASTERMIND

 











CROSSWORD PUZZLES

 SPEED READING

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING

Bad things come in threes

[Published on 23 Jan, 1997]

The year was 1997.

On Jan 10, a 16-year-old student was seriously hurt
when he was knocked down by a white Mercedes-Benz,
whose driver did not stop to help.

Eleven days later on Jan 21, a Mercedes-Benz burst
into flames, moments after it crashed into the road divider
along the Bukit Timah Expressway.

On the same day, a construction sub-contractor suffered
a heart attack while driving his Mercedes car along
Tuas South Avenue 3

What the...!

I can't believe someone (from Singapore, no less)
left an insensitive comment in Thien Nhan's blog.

To "random guy"... ugh, I really don't know what to say.