# If there was ever a photo in need of an explanatory caption, this is it **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 14, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238 "2005-06-14T17:09:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238/1 "2005-06-14T17:09:05Z")
I can’t even begin to imagine how a human body could do [this](http://www.sfgate.com/n/pictures/2005/06/13/rhythmic3.jpg). It needs a caption explaining what’s going on! ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238/2 "2005-06-14T17:10:59Z")
I was just trying to get a leg up, but I should have quit while I was a head. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238/3 "2005-06-14T17:26:00Z")
The focus on allegations of steroid abuse has shifted from China’s swim team to that of it’s gymnastics today as one of it’s participants showed up with a foot for a head. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238/4 "2005-06-14T17:31:42Z")
It was soon realized that jumping rope with razor wire might not be a good olympic sport. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238/5 "2005-06-14T17:36:17Z")
And Salvadore Dali takes the gold! ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238/6 "2005-06-14T17:37:43Z")
Vina in Star Trek episode, “The Cage”: \*They rebuilt me. Everything works. But they had never seen a human. They had no guide for putting me back together. \* ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238/7 "2005-06-14T17:39:40Z")
“We have spring-loaded the chicken so that it will prepare itself upon release.” ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238/8 "2005-06-14T17:39:59Z")
Remember that scene in _Men In Black_ where Tommy Lee Jones zaps the alien shopkeeper in the face, temporarily melting his head down to a squiggle? For some reason, I’m reminded of that here. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238/9 "2005-06-14T17:40:55Z")
First goddamn week of winter. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238/10 "2005-06-14T17:47:03Z")
It’s like something from a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade gone horribly awry. Bungee Flossing–it’s not for amateurs any more. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238/11 "2005-06-14T18:04:20Z")
It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin purple people eater … ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238/12 "2005-06-14T18:15:38Z")
Did anyone else think of Milo’s early attempts to clone Bill the Cat? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238/13 "2005-06-14T18:20:16Z")
When I was a little boy, I heard grown-ups talking about **“toe-heads.”** So that’s what they meant! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238/14 "2005-06-14T18:39:46Z")
Does your breath remind people of feet? Then use new Mr. Schoals Tootpaste! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238/15 "2005-06-14T18:56:37Z")
“I don’t really care; so long as the baby’s got ten fingers and ten toes, I’ll be hap… Good lord…” ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238/16 "2005-06-14T19:01:37Z")
[Eraserhead’s baby](http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/film/tfk/v99/bilder/Eraserhead.jpg) all grown up. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238/17 "2005-06-14T19:19:49Z")
_“… and my favorite sports are gymnastics and… soccer.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238/18 "2005-06-14T19:38:07Z")
“… determined to join in the reindeer games, Rudolph shed his human skin, mid-leap. The watching crowd screamed with one voice as the first hoof appeared through the neck opening…” ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238/19 "2005-06-14T19:57:51Z")
“Cos you gotta have feet, a-feet, a-feet…” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238/20 "2005-06-14T20:11:10Z")
The newspaper headline; \*Tragedy struck at a Cirque du Solei proformance… \* [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-photo-in-need-of-an-explanatory-caption-this-is-it/308238.md?page=2)