Well, having you vote for the finalists in last week’s caption contest seems to have gone well overall. Certainly made selecting finalists easier for me. There is, of course, one little thing…
People.
Seriously.
There’s no need to give other folk’s comments a “thumbs down.” I’m not even sure why WordPress includes that feature, but okay, fine. You want to be able to communicate via the Roger Ebert scale that you didn’t like a comment. But some of them seemed a little random. They weren’t even “booing” captions they didn’t like, people “booed” little “Ha ha! Nice one!” comments. Even some of my responses to people’s comments. What’s up with that? “Boooo! That response to the comment lacked insight and metaphor! Also, you used the wrong form of ‘its’! I hate you! Booo!”
I suspect it was someone having a bad day, and maybe that provided good venting. So, fine.
Other than that, things went smoothly, I thought. Anyway, here are the top 4 finalists, you can vote once a day, so tell your friends and get to campaigning!
*The full text wouldn’t fit in the poll line: “In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two equally important muppets. Investigate-Me-Elmo, and Cookie Monster, who prosecutes the offenders. These are their stories. *Doink Doink* (Michael at Hypothetically Writing)
The Byronic Man 
November 25, 2012 at 3:21 am
You can’t go wrong with a cookie monster outfit. 🙂
November 25, 2012 at 7:24 am
The world would be a better place if more people said that while getting dressed in the morning.
November 25, 2012 at 3:44 am
I hope I was not one of the people who hit a thumbs down–sometimes I do things on the computer and something happens and I do not know how to take it back–obviously I make a lot of long distance calls to my son at college when something happens that I do not understand and he always fixes it (with a sign and I am sure an eye roll or two)
November 25, 2012 at 7:26 am
I’ve wondered if people hit the wrong button. It happens, I suppose. Just ask the electorate in Florida in 2000.
November 25, 2012 at 3:46 am
Great entries, everyone!
(uh….soooo…..that was me booing all the comments. Either my eyesight is going or my fingers are too arthritic to properly operate my iPad….ok…fine. FINE. I was having a bad day, all right? And it felt good to boo people, DAMN good! I am drunk with power now and I like it!)
November 25, 2012 at 3:47 am
Now I feel guilty. To make up for it, I am booing my own comment.
November 25, 2012 at 6:06 am
To counterbalance your self-flagellation, I will thumbs UP both your comments. :p
November 26, 2012 at 9:47 am
To balance the unbalanced nature of this counterbalance, I will thumbs DOWN your comments.
November 25, 2012 at 7:25 am
Boooo!
Hey, this is fun! Ha ha! Booooo! Boooo!
November 25, 2012 at 3:58 am
Right?! Right?! I really thought, “Aw MAN” when I saw that. And then it made me wonder if I’d lost my sense of humor, because who would do that SERIOUSLY?
So, um, another thought-provoking round, complete with animal costumes. Well done. (For reals – the entries were great!)
November 25, 2012 at 7:31 am
Booo!
Sorry, what were you saying?
I’m actually surprised WP doesn’t have the option where people can simply “like” comments. Seems like a logical extension.
November 26, 2012 at 9:49 am
That’s too much like Facebook, the big brother WordPress admires/hates because Mom & Dad likes them better.
November 25, 2012 at 4:39 am
Hmmmm, always loved cookies
November 25, 2012 at 7:30 am
Now the question is what your feelings are about the number 5683…
November 25, 2012 at 11:28 am
Your the only one who’s asked 🙂
You tell me
November 25, 2012 at 5:05 am
I missed all of this. How did that happen? I would think I would have remembered seeing a picture of a guy in a cookie monster suit. And the booing.
November 25, 2012 at 7:29 am
Sounds like a dream, doesn’t it? “I was in court, and Cookie Monster was the judge… and a bunch of people were booing for some reason…”
November 25, 2012 at 6:16 am
Anything with a *DOINK DOINK* has my vote. 🙂
November 25, 2012 at 7:28 am
That, alone, could be an entire post’s worth of debate, I think: “What is the Law & Order sound?” Personally, I think it’s clearly a “CHUNG CHUNG,” but I know plenty of people who are positive it’s something else entirely. It took all my will not to change his entry.
November 25, 2012 at 7:49 am
I do tend to say: DUN DUN, now that you mention it. But I just liked the concept of DOINK DOINK. IYKWIM.
November 25, 2012 at 8:15 am
I’ve seen the thumbs up and down ‘offerings’ but don’t think that I’ve ever used them.
I guess people like to give their opinions. Christ knows I like to give mine & I don’t know what I’m talking about. You know what they say about opinions.
November 25, 2012 at 8:39 am
Wait — didn”t you tell us to use our thumbs? I mean instead of our heads?
November 25, 2012 at 7:53 pm
People thumbs-down comments? They do that? Oh god, please no. Nooooo. And just like that, I’m transported back to 8th grade. I think I’m having heart palpitations. My palms are sweaty. And I’m growing a pimple on my forehead.
November 26, 2012 at 3:31 am
I was about to say I love the *Doink*, but it sounded all kinds of wrong.
November 26, 2012 at 9:50 am
Insert unstated-but-understood “Doink” comment that’s even funnier than Tori’s.
November 27, 2012 at 4:16 am
I never boo, well except at political speeches only then