Caption Competition: We're walking in the air...

Where did the ground go?

By silicon.com, 27 July 2007 10:28

This competition is now closed. The winning entry, from reader Dave Devine, was: "Oh Doris don't tell me you've forgot to put your knickers on...".

Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com

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  1. 1. Dave Devine

    Oh Doris don't tell me you've forgot to put your knickers on...

  2. 2. Valérie Ganne

    OK, who took away the "Glass Removed for Maintenance" sign?

  3. 3. Rob Pendragon

    It's so real, you could be watching it on television

  4. 4. Rob Pendragon

    Unfortunately, the glass concentrated the sun's rays and the Grand Canyon vanished in a puff of smoke

  5. 5. Valérie Ganne

    I still think we should wait until Mr. Prescott's finished looking

  6. 6. Rob Falconer

    You just keep that diamond ring of yours in your pocket, Ellie-May

  7. 7. Rob Falconer

    I bet that gave Superman a nasty bump on the head

  8. 8. Rob Pendragon

    Unfortunately, Roman Abramovich came window-shopping and bought the Grand Canyon!

  9. 9. Rob Pendragon

    Now everybody could see the full potential of the Grand Canyon as a landfill site

  10. 10. anonymous

    Ballmer (with camera): 'Back a bit, bit more...'

    Jobs: 'Here?'

    Ballmer: 'Just a liiitle bit further...'

  11. 11. Steve White

    Several families bide their time whilst awaiting Pooh sticks results.

  12. 12. John Kennard

    Extreme Pooh-Sticks anyone?

  13. 13. anonymous

    Yo - long way down init

  14. 14. Steve White

    Competitors anxiously await the results of grand pooh-sticks final.

  15. 15. anonymous

    Tony to George

    Just hit the floor there with the axe

  16. 16. Anthony Harrison

    Does this mean I'm on Google Earth now?

  17. 17. Michael Dye

    OK, so that's where all the water came from?

  18. 18. anonymous

    I think this new landfill site will take a while to fill.

  19. 19. Karen Challinor

    ...well next time get the car keys before playing a trick on daddy...

  20. 20. Karen Challinor

    ooooo nice form but you lose points on the landing ..... next!

  21. 21. Karen Challinor

    WAITYOUFORGOTTOATTACHTHEBUN............gee

  22. 22. Ray Street

    Subsidence threatens to delay opening of new road up everest.

  23. 23. Paul

    I see the Environment Agency has found a good place to pump all that water from Gloucestershire!

  24. 24. Mike Parmley

    Young Darren would never have thought that throwing pebbles into the water could involve sooo much waiting around.

  25. 25. Karen Challinor

    after passing through the small door and following the tunnel they finally emerged in the space created by Mr Blairs ego

    ... inspired by "Being John Malkovich"

  26. 26. Mike Parmley

    Dad - I can't see through the glass 'cos of all this brown stuff on it!

  27. 27. Karen Challinor

    ...so you are saying if we fill this with £50 notes we still won't have enough to pay for the ID card scheme!

  28. 28. Richard Peters

    "Wish they'd clean that brown stuff off the glass. It's spoiling my view!"

  29. 29. Mike Parmley

    Huh - you mean I've got to get out of my car and WALK!

  30. 30. Karen Challinor

    y'see tony from up here they really do look like ants
    .. gosh george you are right!

  31. 31. Karen Challinor

    well son this was carved out by the mighty colorado river over billions of years and someday, someone will build a datacentre in it

  32. 32. Karen Challinor

    ... and so you see the gulf between reality and the governments understanding of IT projects..

  33. 33. Simon Taylor

    I can see the pub from here...

  34. 34. Karen Challinor

    ..and this is the very quarry Fred Flintstone worked in on his brontosaur all those hundreds of years ago...

  35. 35. Karen Challinor

    Government uses IT to improve pedestrian area

  36. 36. Neville Byford

    "Is this what the Quarrymen did before they met John Lennon?"

  37. 37. Paul

    When I said the Amercan's had some huge cracks on display I didn't mean above their trousers!

  38. 38. steve White

    I can't see him getting up and down for a birdie from there!

  39. 39. colin campbell

    Former public sector IT boss displays similar skill levels as bridge builder.

  40. 40. kenneth wilkinson

    "Uri Geller makes surprise skywalk visit."

  41. 41. John Ray

    Geeezz, you'da thought they'da laid the foundations first !

  42. 42. Dave Devine

    I'd hate to have to carry the window cleaners ladders on this one.

  43. 43. Andrew Davies

    But then, children, Barney the Bridge got very frightened and decided to turn back.....

  44. 44. Ian Sargent

    "The glass ceiling may just be an allegory, but I'm sure glad that this glass floor is real."

  45. 45. Dave Moore

    yep told you those floods washed the land away!

  46. 46. Richard

    Celebrate cracking the "Glass Ceiling," by visiting...

  47. 47. Andy Lawrence

    And Wile E. Coyote landed where?

  48. 48. Jon Morton

    "They were meant to build a bridge ACROSS the canyon...don't use Roy Rogers' builders again, they're a bunch of cowboys!"

  49. 49. Jon Morton

    "Has anyone spotted Steve or his camera yet? I asked him to step back to fit us all in the picture..."

  50. 50. Dave Devine

    Over the bridge that goes nowhere to get in the lift that doesn't descend.

  51. 51. neil smith

    Come and see the distant view on the Windows Vista bridge

  52. 52. Richard Gianella

    The view from the pier was so good they forgot to put the arcade & funfair on the end!

  53. 53. Dave Devine

    Gladys do you remember that song Walking on Broken Glass

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