It's All in the Caption: Fails

Despite all of our flourishing successes and brilliant decision-making, failures will occasionally occur. But it's what you do after a failure that really matters. Will you examine what went wrong and what you could have done to make it go right? Of course, that's what logic-loving people do. But you can also take a moment to laugh at yourself. If nothing else, it is humbling and therapeutic.

Since we don't have photo evidence of our own failures to poke fun at, we have once again tapped into a stock photography resource. Enjoy our alternative "FAIL" captions!

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• Chest hair based seduction FAIL
• Casual glance FAIL
• Putting out the vibe FAIL
• Awkward silence WIN!

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• And 1 FAIL
• Like Mike FAIL
• Vertical FAIL
• Above the rim FAIL
• Shoe endorsement deal FAIL
• Legendary streetballer FAIL
• Shorts FAIL
• Jimmy Chipwood FAIL
• White men can't jump WIN!

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• Literacy FAIL
• Education FAIL
• Letting students write assignments on blackboard FAIL
• Play on words FAIL
• Last day before summer vacation WIN!

Please feel free to add your own FAILs in the comments. We'll even accept, "Fail blog post FAIL."

It's All in the Caption: The Surly Years

There's always that one person in the room that can't help but be a Debbie Downer. Malcontentedness is their mantra and pessimism is their passion. While we don't suggest publicly humiliating them, we do feel some retribution is called for. So, today's installment of "It's All in the Caption" gives us a chance for some friendly ribbing at the expense of the surlier ones among us. As always, we will be using stock photos so nobody gets hurt, but it should be a catharsis, nevertheless.

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Original caption: Boy rejecting banana

Alternate caption: God. I hate you, banana.

Alternate caption: Fruit is not nature's candy. Nice try, moms.

Alternate caption: If you think I am feeding myself, you are sorely mistaken.

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Original caption: Sore loser

Alternate caption: Why do they call it Sorry? You don't seem sorry at all. Jerk.

Alternate caption: And thus began Steve's plan for global domination . . . He'll show you! He'll show ALL of you.

Alternate caption: Worst family game night ever.

 

 

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   Original caption: Baby covered in birthday cake

  Alternate caption: What made you think I could handle this!?
 
  Alternate caption: Not exactly the poster child for self control.

  Alternate caption: Frosting up the nose. Instant buzz-kill.


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It's All in the Caption: Valentine Mishaps

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, it seems like the proper time to get everyone in the mood . . . in the mood of poking fun at Valentine's Day using a selection of stock images. In case you missed our previous installments, here's how it works. We take a few stock photos and rewrite their original captions for the sole purpose of making ourselves laugh.

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Original caption: Singers wearing funny glasses.

Alternate Caption: A guy I'd like to punch.

Alternate Caption:  Guy failing in attempt to disarm the ladies with comical glasses. Note the genuine fear in her expression.

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Original Caption: Boy with an arrow through his head.

Alternate Caption: It turns out Cupid has horrible aim.

Alternate Caption: Luckily for him, prop comedy happens to be one of her "turn-ons". Weird.

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Original Caption: Portrait of a young man holding a heart-shaped object.

Alternate Caption: I made this for you. I hope you like things made of my own hair.

Alternate Caption: Man doing the best he can. At least, he dressed up.

It's All in the Caption: Business Edition

Due to popular demand (the demand of amusing ourselves), we're back with another installment of It's All in the Caption. For those of you that missed the first edition, click here to catch up. Basically, we take a few stock photos and rewrite their captions without any regard to how search results would be effected. Of course, we don't recommend stock photography sites adopt this practice. Despite its potential hilarious results, messing with captions too much can make the images unsearchable.

But, for now, let's live in our pretend world where everything exists for entertainment purposes only.

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Original caption: Businessmen with laptop.


Alternate caption: Guys in the business of being cool and looking off into the distance.


Alternate caption: Three men who got through business school on their looks alone. Now, they can't figure out how to make a laptop work. That's right. Just pretend like it's not there. 

© Juice Images Light. Image #21231.

Original caption: Businessmen shaking hands.

Alternate caption: Everything was going fine with our handshake until someone invited this third guy. Well, this is awkward.

Alternate caption: The first meeting of the Crazy Glue executives started well, until they started shaking hands. Someone call the CEO of solvents.

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Original caption: Excited businesspeople in meeting.

Alternate caption: As this chart clearly illustrates, our share of elevated hand slaps is at an all-time high. Let us demonstrate.

Alternate caption: Our investment in a baby blue conference table has paid off. Well done, Steve. High five! 

If you would like, leave your own captions below. We will exchange elevated hands slaps next time we see you.