# I love Reuters (caption thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 21, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618 "2006-08-21T17:43:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618/1 "2006-08-21T17:43:34Z")
They have [another winner](http://reuters.excite.com/image/20060821/2006-08-21T151627Z_01_NOOTR_RTRIDSP_1_NEWS-MIDEAST-DC.html?date=20060821&docid=2006-08-21T165802Z_01_L13492527_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-MIDEAST-DC) with this one. “Pick me a winner, Georgie.” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618/2 "2006-08-21T17:45:26Z")
“Read my lips…” ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618/3 "2006-08-21T17:48:04Z")
“Do this. See? If you look at your finger this way, you can see _two_ fingers.” ---
**Author:** ![IrreverentTone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@IrreverentTone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IrreverentTone)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618/4 "2006-08-21T17:57:53Z")
“You’re getting very, very sleepy.” ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618/5 "2006-08-21T18:07:50Z")
In a stunning display of intellectual prowess, President Bush responded to a comment from the audience with the flip of a finger. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618/6 "2006-08-21T21:35:42Z")
“How the heck do you expect me to answer all these questions with this goddam hangnail making my life hell?” ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618/7 "2006-08-21T21:36:24Z")
Starting with his right thumb, President Bush manages to count to two in binary numbers. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618/8 "2006-08-21T23:37:02Z")
“Hello, Mr. First Finger! Are you ready to point out some freedom hatin’ liberals?” [high,squeakyvoice]“I sure am, George! Let’s get to work!”[/hsv] ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618/9 "2006-08-21T23:48:07Z")
“Red rum. Red rum.” ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618/10 "2006-08-21T23:51:14Z")
“Just watch, I can touch my own eyeball!” ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618/11 "2006-08-21T23:51:42Z")
President Bush discovers yet another character with access to nuclear weapons. And bogies. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618/12 "2006-08-22T00:07:03Z")
“Sit and spin, Helen Thomas.” “Me! ME! I’M the Decider!” ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618/13 "2006-08-22T00:28:44Z")
“You’d better be sure you want to make that hunnerd dollar bet that I won’t stick this finger up my nose. Because I will, dern it! I will!” ---
**Author:** ![Survey1215](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Survey1215](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Survey1215)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618/14 "2006-08-22T02:47:18Z")
President Bush confidently responds to the question ‘Where do you rank on the list of the worst presidents in American history?’ in his weekly White House press conference. ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618/15 "2006-08-22T03:12:51Z")
“Aw dang, got the wrong finger agin, di’nt I?” ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618/16 "2006-08-22T03:35:32Z")
Same press conference, same pose, but a different angle: [http://tinyurl.com/od2ok](http://tinyurl.com/od2ok) (Dunno how long that link will be good for.) That angle makes it look like he’s thinking: “What on Earth did I just dig out of my nose!?” * * * \<\< Federal Expresso: When you absolutely, positively have to stay up all night. \>\> ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618/17 "2006-08-22T04:37:26Z")
“And now, a man with a tape recorder up his nose…” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618/18 "2006-08-22T04:59:26Z")
Once again, President Bush fails his pre-press conference field sobriety test. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618/19 "2006-08-22T05:13:03Z")
“I got a match for ya: Your ass and my face. No, wait… My face and your… Damn.” ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618/20 "2006-08-22T05:23:00Z")
“The Taliban stood up to the U.S. one time. ONE time.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-reuters-caption-thread/369618.md?page=2)