Caption Competition
Winning entries in the Caption Competition.
The competition is now closed.
This week a child observes a dragon at a festival in Almaty.
Thanks to all who entered. The prize of a small amount of kudos to the following:
6. grazvalentine wrote:
I'm only an apprentice dragon - I haven't been fired yet.
5. DavidDeeMoz wrote:
Fortunately he preferred the crunchy blue ones.
4. ARoseByAnyOther wrote:
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - The Prequel.
3. Scott Humm wrote:
You want to take a right, go straight for about 5,000 miles, and the loch is just behind the Starbucks.
2. SimonRooke wrote:
Well, what did they expect if they ban fascinators from Ascot?
1. EdMunro wrote:
The bring your child to work day was not proving a success for the dragon slayers.
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Comment number 1.
At 22nd Mar 2012, Candace9839 wrote:Godzilla?!
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Rich_Amies wrote:That's not scary, you should see my mum in the morning!
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At 22nd Mar 2012, JimmyG wrote:The Grand Slams winners were in for a surprise on their Asian tour...
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Fi wrote:Okay, you won the Grand Slam, but don't you think you should've taken the costume off by now?
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Gray Gable wrote:True, with the Budget adding an extra 37p a pack, I really really have to quit smoking..
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Paul Morris wrote:Gotta light?
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At 22nd Mar 2012, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:Wish I were in Wales...
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Candace9839 wrote:Tell me again why we need a human sacrifice?
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Rich_Amies wrote:No wonder noone has found the Loch Ness Monster, Nessie is on holiday
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Peter N wrote:"You're in the rồng costume"
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Comment number 11.
At 22nd Mar 2012, Fi wrote:You think that's scary? You should see my Auntie Blodwen in her daffodil costume!
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At 22nd Mar 2012, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:Look, I know I'm late for the New Year's, but it took me ages to get the buttons done up...
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Andy wrote:Number 6 dons dragon costume to hide from Rover and hopes that the tallest baby in the world doesn't give him away in the latest remake of "The Prisoner"
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Gray Gable wrote:So you’re not Merlin either? Damn SatNav..
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At 22nd Mar 2012, JimmyG wrote:After forgetting to switch to the Gregorian Calendar, Nessie arrives a little bit too late for the Olympics.
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At 22nd Mar 2012, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:I told you Nessie was real...
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At 22nd Mar 2012, EdMunro wrote:The 'Bring your child to work day' was not proving a success for the dragon slayers.
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Comment number 18.
At 22nd Mar 2012, Candace9839 wrote:A breath mint?! What cheek!
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Comment number 19.
At 22nd Mar 2012, MorningGlories wrote:Of course I'm not a sea dragon. Do you see a swimming costume?
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Comment number 20.
At 22nd Mar 2012, Peter N wrote:Dragon : I eat little children for breakfast
Child : Well I'm seeing the gruffalo, who's gone to the loo
And his favourite food is dragon ragout.....
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Comment number 21.
At 22nd Mar 2012, Andy wrote:Mum, Are you sure that was milk in my bottle?
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Dyeb wrote:Chinese takeaway!
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At 22nd Mar 2012, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:Yes, I'm draggin' too...
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Fi wrote:That's not scary! I've met Hilary Devey!
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At 22nd Mar 2012, JimmyG wrote:The Navy Seals go incognito in their hunt for Kim Jong-un
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Andy wrote:Get your own balloon!
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Comment number 27.
At 22nd Mar 2012, Candace9839 wrote:Typical. You spend too much time on the hors d'oeuvres tray and it spoils the main course...
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Gray Gable wrote:Sorry, the wolf couldn’t make it..
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Dyeb wrote:My thats a big Prawn Cracker you have there can I take a closer look little girl?
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Comment number 30.
At 22nd Mar 2012, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:Looks like I picked the wrong day to be lactose intolerant...
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At 22nd Mar 2012, JimmyG wrote:In looking for a treatment for his dry scaly skin, Peter erroneously assumed E45 was the post code...
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Reeve Burgess wrote:What dreadful special effects! Ray Harryhausen will be turning in his grave ... and he's not even dead yet.
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Gurney Nutting wrote:The dragon was hungry, and it certainly looked like a little pink Twiglet
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Scott Humm wrote:I'd put that away if I were you, Fried Dragon Tongue is a speciality in this town.
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At 22nd Mar 2012, SkarloeyLine wrote:"Must be a mythical creature - a child that isn't yowling in Starbucks."
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Comment number 36.
At 22nd Mar 2012, Discombobulator wrote:...for the final time, I don't have any string, sealing wax or fancy stuff; there is no Autumn mist; we are nowhere near the sea and my name is not Jackie Paper, OK ?
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Comment number 37.
At 22nd Mar 2012, Gurney Nutting wrote:I'm having that dream again, thought the dragon
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Reeve Burgess wrote:Nessie? But it doesn't look a bit like Ruth Jones.
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Scott Humm wrote:You want to take a right, go straight for about 5000 miles, and the loch is just behind the Starbucks.
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Gurney Nutting wrote:Chun, however, had been born in the Year of the Human
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Comment number 41.
At 22nd Mar 2012, Reeve Burgess wrote:Next year, rugby will be Seven Nations. China win. Wales lose.
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Gray Gable wrote:Are you looking at me, are *you* looking at me??
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Scott Humm wrote:This parade is dragon on a bit, isn't it.
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:When Chan saw the dragon, he started screaming prehysterically
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Kev wrote:Sure, it is a nice booblehat, but how are you going to stop other people making bobble hats? You can't even hold yourself upright. For that reason, Im out!
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Comment number 46.
At 22nd Mar 2012, Nick Fowler wrote:Like Godzilla, Tyrannosaurus Wrecks
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Raven Clare wrote:Hong began to wish he'd listened to his mother's threats about what would happen if he didn't eat his greens
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At 22nd Mar 2012, CindyAccidentally wrote:"What a big tax bill you have, Grandma."
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Steele Hawker wrote:Chan was overjoyed to be reunited with his pet lizard after it had been seen running wild in Fukushima
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At 22nd Mar 2012, DPNixon wrote:You're not 3D or CGI - get lost!
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Pendragon wrote:Unfortunately, Hally Pottle, the Chinese Boy Wizard, had miscalculated his potion to conjure up Raquel Welch in a fur bikini
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Comment number 52.
At 22nd Mar 2012, Cairngorm McWomble wrote:(both)
Mmmm ... lunch!
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At 22nd Mar 2012, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:How to (Potty) Train Your Dragon
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Valerie Ganne wrote:Maybe Viagra wasn't suitable for pet lizards, thought Chang
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Flux Redux wrote:"Honah Lee? Now there's a coincidence"
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Candace9839 wrote:Little Jacquie Paper was about to have a new adventure...
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Mr Snoozy wrote:"Erriott? is that you? It's me, Pete!"
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At 22nd Mar 2012, bradmer wrote:Puff!! What kind of name is that??
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Rob Falconer wrote:Honestly, Darling, I was assured the dragon had been CRB tested
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Reeve Burgess wrote:It was the dragon's favourite - sushi
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Dry Boak wrote:I've got this great idea on how to sell fancy dress costumes - are you in?
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Flux Redux wrote:Puff was having terrible luck with finding 'the' Honah Lee he was looking for.
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Mr Snoozy wrote:Like elephants, Dragons never forget, and it was Lu-Chi's father that had 'buried' the family pet Salamander 40 years ago; the sound of the flush is the last civilised memory Elliot had...
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:James Stewart's Harvey is remade in Japan
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Nick Fowler wrote:No-one believed Longwei when he said he had an imaginary pal - aeontologist
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Steele Hawker wrote:Tony Robinson's archaeology programme gets a makeover for children's TV in China as "Timmy's Team"
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Dyeb wrote:Ken Hom's Granddaughter was trying to decide if she had a bowl big enough for Dragon's Head Soup
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Pendragon wrote:Chang began to suspect the multi-coloured dragon was just a pigment of his imagination
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Raven Clare wrote:Detention was tough in St. George's Kindergarten
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Valerie Ganne wrote:Qiu was beginning to wonder what Daddy was putting in his milk bottle
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At 22nd Mar 2012, bradmer wrote:Can you help me? I'd arranged to meet Saint George here, but I'm a bit late!
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At 22nd Mar 2012, ladyofastolat wrote:"No, she missed St George. She's sleeping right through the knight nowadays."
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At 22nd Mar 2012, grazvalentine wrote:The girl with the dragon – Tai-yu.
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Dyeb wrote:Puff dropped in to his local Chinese Street market to see what was on offer
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Rob Falconer wrote:Wu was looking forward to the barbecue, and his favourite snack - dragon scratchings
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At 22nd Mar 2012, yapparister wrote:The Almaty Dragon: "Kazakh-she-saw-us"
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Tremorman wrote:The Welsh arrive for the Eurovision song contest, strange I thought it was the Scots who wanted independence
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Reeve Burgess wrote:Why did we call him Herby? Well, we got his name off some old map, "Herby Dragons"
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Dyeb wrote:Puff was frolicking in the Almaty mist
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Gurney Nutting wrote:Chinese Theatre presents an allegorical tale in which the British Chancellor tries to steal the People's Child Benefit
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Nick Fowler wrote:You devil! You've eaten Mr. Punch, Judy, and all the sausages!
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Cairngorm McWomble wrote:Little Rosy was beginning to suspect her parents were doctoring her bottle!
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Tremorman wrote:While they were out shopping they decided to get some smokers toothpaste.
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Raven Clare wrote:The ´óÏó´«Ã½ unleashes its punishment on a young Chinese boy who tried to submit two captions in under five minutes
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Bellhouse Hartwell wrote:The Chinese dragon was fascinated by the way the little boy could blow bubble-gum bubbles out of his left ear
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Mr Snoozy wrote:Unfortunately, during the last 600 seconds, the photo seems to have changed.
I was sure there were two small children on people's shoulders before, and the dragon looked slightly slimmer and slightly more hungry in the original image....
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Javascript Error 318 wrote:Am I a man or a Muppet?
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At 22nd Mar 2012, That Guy wrote:What'choo lookin' at, big nose?
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Javascript Error 318 wrote:Has the filming for Borat 2 started yet then?
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Steele Hawker wrote:Chan-juan and Dragons
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At 22nd Mar 2012, grazvalentine wrote:I’m only an apprentice dragon – I haven't been fired yet.
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At 22nd Mar 2012, tundra1 wrote:Suspecting a budget backlash, the Chancellor adopts a cunning disguise for his walkabout.
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Pendragon wrote:A bemused Eurovision fan in Baku greets Englebert Humperdinck
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At 22nd Mar 2012, tundra1 wrote:Mummy, mummy. I want to go home. I didn't expect it to drag-on this long!
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At 22nd Mar 2012, littleDickie wrote:"And you said that Saint Patrick banished the snakes from Ireland. Is this the reincarnation come back as a dragon? Well, it is big and Green!
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Rob Falconer wrote:As usual, there were some strange substances being sold at Glastonbury ...
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Valerie Ganne wrote:Part of a new publicity campaign aimed at the Chinese, "Let Pampers control those Dragon odours!"
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Reeve Burgess wrote:Paddington Bear (bottom right) beat a hasty retreat!
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Nick Fowler wrote:In fact, Chang became the first person to be eaten at an H. P. Lovecraft convention
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At 22nd Mar 2012, Raven Clare wrote:In case of dragon attacks, in China all children must be fitted with air bags
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