Caption Contest

Written By: - Date published: 12:49 pm, November 23rd, 2012 - 83 comments
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  1. MikeD 1
    23 November 2012 at 12:59 pm

    Ah.. um… ahh… well… the … ahh…

  2. bobo 2
    23 November 2012 at 1:00 pm

    “You looking at me? I said are you looking at me ! “

  3. Treetop 3
    23 November 2012 at 1:00 pm

    It has been such a l o n g week. TGIF.

  4. starlight 4
    23 November 2012 at 1:03 pm

    “Damn,did i get it all wrong 91″
    ‘Yes,Max, you did”

  5. Jimmie 5
    23 November 2012 at 1:05 pm

    Is it me or does Shearer have an uncanny resemblance to Rodney Hide? (With a little extra hair of course and a few more wrinkles)

  6. McFlock 6
    23 November 2012 at 1:06 pm

    “Call me ‘too nice’ now, motherfucker! I dare you – no, I double dare you!”

  7. One Tāne Huna 7
    23 November 2012 at 1:07 pm

    I was talking to a constituent of mine the other day, and he tells me that David Cunliffe has been painting his roof. He said it wan’t fair and I agreed.

  8. McFlock 8
    23 November 2012 at 1:08 pm

    “I don’t know what the fuck that is, but it sure looks like something I just scraped off my front bench”

  9. PlanetOrphan 9
    23 November 2012 at 1:12 pm

    Where’s my magnifying glass ?, I’ve got a “White Ant” to burn 😈
    Gower get over here M8!

  10. Matthew 10
    23 November 2012 at 1:14 pm

    “Give me wodka, i want to appear socialist”

  11. oscar 11
    23 November 2012 at 1:16 pm

    I learned this look from the best warlord of Mogadishu… bitch!

  12. McFlock 12
    23 November 2012 at 1:16 pm

    “I have had enough of these motherfucking snakes in this motherfucking caucus!”

  13. BlueSilver 13
    23 November 2012 at 1:18 pm

    Why do I keep hearing John Key’s distant laugh ringing in my ears?

  14. Craig Glen Eden 14
    23 November 2012 at 1:21 pm

    Read my lips, I play the meanest guitar and I write the song cos Im the leader I will always be the leader and I expect you all to pledge your allegiance for as long as you shall live.

  15. weka 15
    23 November 2012 at 1:41 pm

    I hope those bastards at the Standard don’t find out I’ve got some darkened curtains and a computer screen of my own.

  16. Chalupa Batman 16
    23 November 2012 at 1:52 pm

    “So David what is best in life?”

    “Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women”

  17. BM 17
    23 November 2012 at 1:53 pm

    I’m going to tear you a new arsehole Cunliffe.

  18. Te Reo Putake 18
    23 November 2012 at 2:11 pm

    David Shearer reads a blog for the first time.

    Jeez, Trevor, who let Lynn Prentice into my conference?

    I can understand Cunliffe’s cheezy grin, but why is Robertson so cheerful?

    Whaddya mean we have no mango skins? How the heck are we going to end poverty then?

    Oi, you, get down off that roof, one of us could get hurt.

    If I try to look like Tony Soprano, do you think Cunliffe will back off?

  19. KhandallaMan 19
    23 November 2012 at 2:15 pm

    Sh*t, why did I embellish my CV that much?  They believed all the war zone hero crap! Robertson is the only one who knows….I think. Mmmmmmm..should I trust him?

  20. Sunny 20
    23 November 2012 at 2:36 pm

    The Mr Magoo of speaking ponders his next sound bite.

  21. Mikesh 21
    23 November 2012 at 2:37 pm

    Hmmm … … … Can’t send the blighter to the Siberian salt mines. I wonder if Stewart Island would be far enough.

  22. Tom Gould 22
    23 November 2012 at 2:40 pm

    Why is Cunliffe constantly posing, waving into the middle distance, again, like he knows someone in the crowd? Something Brian Edwards suggested he do, I guess?

  23. crashcart 23
    23 November 2012 at 2:44 pm

    “If I look reeeeaaaaaaaly serious maybe people will take me seriously”

  24. Ant 24
    23 November 2012 at 2:54 pm

    prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrtttt ……………. pfrrrrt … pfrrt

  25. Rogue Trooper 25
    23 November 2012 at 3:06 pm

    Committee man keeps his enemies close

  26. fender 26
    23 November 2012 at 3:18 pm

    Everybody (even Key) is calling me a “nice guy”. I might sound a little simple but I’m not, and I can read between the lines and realise nice guys finish last. I’ll show them I’m as batshit crazy as an Act Party candidate and do some irrational crazy shit wearing this demonic face that even Anthony Dixon couldn’t have done better.

    You WILL dance to my tune or else I’ll smash this guitar over your head.

  27. alex 27
    23 November 2012 at 3:26 pm

    I think I should grow a beard.

    • Rhinocrates 27.1
      23 November 2012 at 5:56 pm

      Time for a geek joke. Star Trek: The Next Generation was regarded as pants by Trekkies until Jonathan Frakes (playing 2nd in command Riker), grew a beard. Now “growing a beard” is their shorthand for finally getting your shit together – the opposite of “jumping the shark”.

  28. Robert Winter 28
    23 November 2012 at 3:48 pm

    Mogadishu was never like this.

  29. Populuxe1 29
    23 November 2012 at 3:50 pm

    Bring me Cunliffe’s heart in this box

  30. dpalenski 30
    23 November 2012 at 3:51 pm

    Who’s the best man in the front bench now

  31. Luc Hansen 31
    23 November 2012 at 4:22 pm

    Do you feel lucky, punk?

  32. Tangled up in blue 32
    23 November 2012 at 4:23 pm

    “Three more months boys, three more months.”

  33. Colonial Viper 33
    23 November 2012 at 4:30 pm

    ROAR! See, I am the strong man of Labour!

  34. Populuxe1 34
    23 November 2012 at 4:42 pm

    Mirror, Mirror, on the wall,
    Who is the anointed leader of the Labour Party after all? 

  35. Foreign Waka 35
    23 November 2012 at 4:49 pm

    Focus, focus, focus, hold still……

  36. Roflcopter 36
    23 November 2012 at 5:24 pm

    “That’s weird… it feels like there’s something stuck in my back”

  37. calltoaccount 37
    23 November 2012 at 5:29 pm

    See my forehead? Guess where it’s going…

  38. Clashman 38
    23 November 2012 at 5:50 pm

    Hi I’m John….no David my er name is er Dave um David.

  39. fustercluck 39
    23 November 2012 at 5:55 pm

    Looking to the Left. With obvious distaste and suspicion.

  40. PlanetOrphan 40
    23 November 2012 at 6:01 pm

    Caption contest on “The Standard” ? ya say …. yeah sure M8, any publicity etc (*wink*)
    OK how’s this look? …..
    Do you see a “Leader”?

  41. Rhinocrates 41
    23 November 2012 at 6:02 pm

    Cunlife… smirking all the time…bastard. I’ll get him. Got to make a show of my authority. Robertson… smirking a lot too… don’t like him. Bastard. I’ll deal to him too. What’s Hipkins doing on telly? Hogging the limelight, that’s what. Bastard. I’ll get him next. Make a show of it. King? Been around, knows too much. Get her. Goff… clearly thinking of a comeback. Bastard. I’ll get him too. Mallard, now him… been there all the time, undermining everyone… I’ll get him. Bastard. Now about Shearer? Who’s that guy? Can’t pin him down. Doesn’t seem to believe in anything. clearly incompetent too – and paranoid. I’ll get him too. Bastard.

  42. Tim G. 42
    23 November 2012 at 6:17 pm

    Jeez, I sure hope Hooten’s having another BBQ this summer, I could use some more advice.

  43. starlight 43
    23 November 2012 at 6:45 pm

    ‘Make my day Cunliffe,go on, vote for the 40/40/20 split,i dare you’

  44. Dr Terry 44
    23 November 2012 at 6:51 pm

    I am in great fear – have I gagged everybody?

  45. Mary 45
    23 November 2012 at 7:00 pm

    Okay, you’ve got me. It started out as a simple prank that got out of control – I really am Wayne Rooney posing as a Labour MP. It’s not my fault you fell for it and made me leader.

  46. geo 46
    23 November 2012 at 7:57 pm

    “read my lips”

  47. mike e 47
    23 November 2012 at 7:57 pm

    That fing little weasal gower

  48. Blue 48
    23 November 2012 at 8:24 pm

    Take me to your leader.

  49. mac1 49
    23 November 2012 at 9:41 pm

    “Am C D F
    Am C E7 E7
    Am C D F
    Am E7 Am”

  50. jaymam 50
    23 November 2012 at 10:14 pm

    Do I look like a smiling assassin?

  51. RedBaron 51
    23 November 2012 at 10:16 pm

    Loser

  52. Vicky32 52
    23 November 2012 at 10:34 pm

    I see the babies are playing blogosphere again! 🙂
     
    (Not QoT’s this, is it? Or she’ll jump on me with her size 15 Doc Martins, and flatten me but good.) 😀

    • QoT 52.1
      23 November 2012 at 11:06 pm

      Vicky, you’ll go far in life if you learn how to fucking read.

      Right up there? Under the big bold letters at the top of the post? It says “By: THE SPROUT”.

      This is how you and all the other Standard readers can tell who has made a particular post.

      I’m sorry I’m talking to you like you’re stupid, but the alternative explanation is that once again you just couldn’t help but make a pathetic dig at me for no actual reason, in a thread I’m not even involved in, because you have a truly infantile vendetta against me. So I figured “stupid” was the best conclusion to come to.

      • Vicky32 52.1.1
        23 November 2012 at 11:20 pm

        but the alternative explanation is that once again you just couldn’t help but make a pathetic dig at me for no actual reason, in a thread I’m not even involved in, because you have a truly infantile vendetta against me.

        Sorry, I couldn’t resist! 🙂
        To misquote Alexei Sayle, “I prick pretension, but QoT is a pretentious prick”..

        • fender 52.1.1.1
          23 November 2012 at 11:48 pm

          Seek help from a medical professional, you have an unhealthy obsession.

          • Vicky32 52.1.1.1.1
            23 November 2012 at 11:54 pm

            Seek help from a medical professional, you have an unhealthy obsession.

            If you mean me. then get a sense of humour! Do you know what the crazy woman said and did the other day? That deserves me poking at her sense of self-importance a bit, hey?

  53. jaymam 53
    23 November 2012 at 11:00 pm

    Oh all politicians look alike after they’ve been a leader for a while:
    http://i50.tinypic.com/2ev9kia.jpg

  54. xtasy 54
    23 November 2012 at 11:50 pm

    THIS is NOT a LEADER, he is a “roof-painter’s enemy”!

  55. Ant 55
    23 November 2012 at 11:54 pm

    ROOF SHOUT

  56. fender 56
    24 November 2012 at 12:00 am

    I can burn your portfolio just by staring real hard like this, but please don’t make me do it too often, ‘cos as you can see it makes my skin go all blotchy.

  57. Jim Nald 57
    24 November 2012 at 12:51 am

    ” If I am the answer for leading the Labour Party going into the general elections of 2014, what is the question ? “

  58. Saarbo 58
    24 November 2012 at 7:41 am

    Well um , I guess I seem to look OK, and ahh, my back story is strong but…… I don’t have any substance and wont really be any good for your long term well being…..”HONEY PUFFS!”

  59. newsense 59
    24 November 2012 at 9:01 pm

    oho- Spidey sense- the Standard is running a caption contest on me this time! Success! Only 723 to catch Johnny boy…

  60. Ben 60
    25 November 2012 at 1:13 am

    Mogadishu, I lost a platoon of men there. They were ambushed and before I could say f…f…f…f…f…f…fire it was all over.

  61. CG 61
    25 November 2012 at 12:04 pm

    Look!…I am left leaning!

  62. Binders full of women 62
    25 November 2012 at 1:27 pm

    At least I’m not called a “top of the bus Herne Bay wigger” Nat Radio Sunday am.

  63. Ben 63
    25 November 2012 at 5:04 pm

    I’ve sorted out Cunliffe, Mangogan style.

  64. Chooky 64
    26 November 2012 at 4:05 pm

    Hmmmm…..I thought I heard Matthew Hooton say I was Leader of the National Party….Is Matthew going mad?….. or was I just hearing things ?

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