WILLisms.com: Wednesday Caption Contest: Part 55.

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Wednesday Caption Contest: Part 55.

This week's WILLisms.com Caption Contest photograph:

The actual caption:

Monks take photographs during gathering to mark the Buddhist ceremony of World Vesak Day iin Thailand's Nakhon Pathom province on the outskirts of Bangkok May 10, 2006. Almost 20,000 monks and devotees from 46 countries gathered to mark the coming Vesak Day which falls on Friday. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

Surely there's a better caption for this photograph.

Entries will remain open until 11:59 PM, Central Standard Time, Tuesday, May 16. Submit your captions in the comments section, or email at WILLisms@gmail.com.

Last week's photo:

Winners from last week:

Bart Harmon:

Michael Jackson, tired of being a skinny white guy, has reportingly spent millions on plastic surgery to become a fat Chinese guy. Unfortunately, these changes had no effect whatsoever on his romantic interests.

bullwinkle:

Shortly after giving birth to her first son, Rosie O'Donnell holds him aloft for the world to see.

John:

Following in the footsteps of Al Gore, former Secretary of State Colin Powell has put on a few pounds and has adopted a more "casual" dress style after leaving government service to spend more time with his grandchildren.

Honorable Mention #1

Cox:

"Listen, just because we both wear big cloth diapers doensn't mean you can generalize..."

Honorable Mention #2

John in IL:

"Betcha can't eat just one"

Honorable Mention #3

Rodney Dill:

"Why stick to just dwarf tossing, when you can throw babies so much farther."

Honorable Mention #4

GOP and College:

GET IN MAH BELLAY!

Honorable Mention #5

DANEgerus:

Oliver Willis claims to have given birth to Michelle Malkin's love child...

Honorable Mention #6

Emily:

"Like kryptonite to diapers..."

Captioning is super serial.

Enter today!

Posted by Will Franklin · 10 May 2006 09:49 AM

Comments

"Too late to affect the Supreme Court Ruling, proof that Anna Nicole's husband J. Howard Marshall was still alive, and hiding out in Tibet, was presented to the Defense." It turns out Anna is enough to make a hornball oil tycoon take a vow of poverty, chastity, and kung fu.

Posted by: Cox at May 10, 2006 10:06 AM

"...grasshopper...as quickly as you can, snatch the Pentax from my hand..."

Posted by: Rodney Dill at May 10, 2006 10:22 AM

Hey, Wang! What's with the pictures?
It's a parking lot! Come on.

Posted by: Giacomo at May 10, 2006 10:23 AM

Thailand's "Girls Gone Wild" crew claim that Buddhist girls are just as crazy when you get them sauced and yell "Free the spheres of life!"

Posted by: Rob B. at May 10, 2006 10:24 AM

Whoa, Ted Kennedy with a 12 year old boy! We're gonna be RICH!

Posted by: Rob B. at May 10, 2006 10:26 AM

Nothing says austere humility quite like ROLEX.

Posted by: Rodney Dill at May 10, 2006 10:51 AM

Inspired by Canon's invasion and assimilation of Tibet, China is currently exploring new options for irritating Richard Gere beyond coating gerbils with tabasco sauce.

Posted by: jody at May 10, 2006 12:23 PM

Buddharazzi

Posted by: Rodney Dill at May 10, 2006 12:27 PM

Tibetan Buddhist monks demonstrate the Tao of Kodak.

Posted by: John at May 10, 2006 12:39 PM

Monk 1: "Is this it?"
Master: "Yes."
Monk 2: "Excuse me, master, is this what?"
Master: "Lao Tsi will ask for a volunteer from the audience to administer a kick in the groin."
Monk 2: "But he has been practicing in our ancient way, has he not?"
Master: "Sort of. We never actually made contact during his 'toughening' sessions. He is in for a rude surprise teeheehee."
Monk 1: "We taught him a mantra. 'Kik ma-in thajimi.' Teeheehee."
Monk 2: "Teeheehee. I can't wait to post this on Internet."

Posted by: John at May 10, 2006 01:29 PM

Photographers shoot the new look in buddhist fashion...

Posted by: Zsa Zsa at May 10, 2006 02:50 PM

-I've got your soul...No I've got your soul, No I do....

-Meanwhile, at the Democratic fundraiser, The Buddhist delegation attempted to photograph the elusive Manbearpig.....

Posted by: SgtFluffy at May 10, 2006 06:46 PM

Their creed was one of peace. But the Buddhist monks would not hesitate to shoot off their Canons to protest for a Tibet free from Chinese domination.

Posted by: DaveD at May 11, 2006 08:08 AM

There was nothing in their vows of abstinence that said the monks couldn't fill their walls with pictures of Scarlett Johannson.

Posted by: Hoodlumman at May 11, 2006 09:25 AM

The monks loved Best Buy and Best Buy loved the monks.

Posted by: Hoodlumman at May 11, 2006 09:28 AM

The Buddha Paparazzi Will Not Harm You.

Posted by: radio free fred at May 11, 2006 01:30 PM

When posters told them that "Feng Shui" would be at Bejing's Street Market, the disappointed Tibetan Monks were expecting something other than a Soft Rock Band.

Posted by: GOP and College at May 11, 2006 04:09 PM

John Glenn: astronaut, U.S. Senator, Buddhist photogrpaher.

Posted by: Bob at May 15, 2006 12:09 PM

Three Thai monks and one gay man in his pyjamas take pictures of Michaelangelo's David.

Posted by: Brutus at May 19, 2006 02:41 AM